Show BRADSTREETS VIEW General Outlook Returns Most Encouraging En-couraging Features Now York March 23 Bradstreet3 tomorrow to-morrow will say Sonic of the Irregularities Irregu-larities me visible In the I general trade and InUistrlal siluatlon the results of r tho working of counter currents In i various vari-ous lino but in ken as a whole the KCII enil outlook retains most encouraging fMtuies noted for some llrne past In tlsese columns Favorable reports as to I retail distribution and us to collection 1 come from Southern Western amid Northwestern North-western markets due to bettor wpaiher Continued t I good railroad I I I return 114 record I breaking merchandise exports from Now York with signs of a resumption of heavy shipments ol Iron to Kuroiui rind good 1 wheat and fruit crop report exivpl from the centra Wtl ir < ulno features i An unfavorable element Is the predic thou of i general strike of mnrhlnbls but It la possible more than Its proper weight has been given this threatened trouble I As offsets to this threatened trouble might bo el led the scUlenuMili of differences anionir iho I hike ore itii maIlers a vllal polni In I time Immense I business looked for the coming spring and HUmmcr Advances In wages tim soft coal minors of siove inoldtrs and of other worker allied to the Iron and steel Industry I would seem lo point to labor fondlllons retains most of hmo t favorable features which have made them subjects of favorable remark on thu unri of the prosperity wave Foreign demand KooniH likely to play a most lmHrtanl part In iho Iron and steel Industries judging from the reports of advancing foreign markets and of Increasing In-creasing hmulrles upon manufacturer Some iits of pig Iron ire being negotiated negoti-ated for at New York and til Hirmlngh Ala and SOil tImetmi Iron price would appear ap-pear i lo bii on a parity with thono L abroad While some slight I concessions mlghl o euro much of Hie I business iiolhlng I like I a guneral easing of values lh lo bo ivport od I3ossemer pig Is in fact firmer than ever al almost time lop iirluo reached In the present boom Foundry lron > chlefiv of low grmlf are cheaper but finished products nclf little If any change Anthracite An-thracite coal rclkCls the advanced stason hi weaker quotations but bituminous sorts are In demand The famine In coal In KuroDc seoms to bo growjng inoro pronounced pro-nounced but some ruroored very large contracts for Soilhern coal Imvo yet to bo placed Copper Is In good demand and some q large sales arc rcppred for export dc maud and firmed on tle weok ax are also hog products smaller receipts and a reported re-ported Miueezf of Khorls Sugar Is high cr mainly owing to the growing Hlrongih o raw material Wheat und cum among the breadstulTy have been i > weaker rellecting nnolhcr out of iho o short swings In itrlce which havo been sech n iVjilure of the m former market mar-ket but also expected heavy shipments from th t < Argonllnc and Kuod rrop re porls from the South and West In the central Woxt wluai wrop advice are ills appulnling complaint of winter killing moro than offyolllng Inoroaswd inreasft Wool rtmnluH one of the soft spots In the market uml though a HUlomoro hums ness has been donb thin weektlmn lust coueeswloiih ore s easier lo obtain and hVlii2 ar inoiably lower i leather onf time other Inuid reltirn mu boiler report than for Home tlmo past quotations of hemlock are higher and business has been larger at several markols1 Thtboot and sib Industry not F improvement he inand and prices but hides romaln rather djillWheat Wheat Including Hour shlptnents for Iho w < ek nRjjii rite 2I C JiO hunhcls fiRahiH UJ7lTjr biiHbfls lust week 371C7G1 bushels in lie corn pondlnp wtk of lv > i j aS rtlK buHhoit Jn iv s 74iiirJ In 1V < 7 mel l JitlJCH I biMbelH In IMIJ 1 UiiKlnfKs fallnrts In time Untied SUiteti i for tin wk iiiiinb r IK1 as compared with l9 1 J last work IS in thlw week u year ago air in ii wi in Pi7 and 275 In iSM HuslnesH fuJluros in the Dominion of Cunuda number rj as compart with 23 aqt week K ln tlllfl Wlclc u ytr ago i i In JKiS ID In 1K 7 uml II in 15W |