Show 1 SIAPLES N OEM ANO Business Since November 1st S Has Been Good s SO DUNS REVIEW DECLARES Past Week Seems to Have Marked S S the Climax of the Enormous Dealings S Deal-ings nt Figures Which Have Become Be-come Familiar There Is a Heavy S Trade in Pig Iron A Larger Distribution Dis-tribution of Dry Goods at aFirmer Range of Quotations Jobbing Trade in the Interior Is Good Now York Jan 2R G Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will say Rarely has there been moro business I In slaplo and in manufactured goo < ls at practically unchanged prices than during the period since November 1st This week seems to have marked the climax of the i enormous dealings ut figures which have become familiar Tim heavy trade In pig I iron at bettor prices the larger distribution S distribu-tion of dry goods at a firmer rango of j quolallons and Die rush to secure prompt 1 delivery of boots and shoes all Indicate that business may have escaped one of those weary readjustments of prices which have proved often so trying in recent re-cent years Jobbing trade In the Interior S is good and collections continue excellent After a week of quiet conditions partly part-ly due to uncertainty regarding competition competi-tion among leading interests the iron and steel Industry has taken another long I stride forward The feature was enormous enor-mous buying of pig at an advance to 1325 at Plllsburg This sudden activity in tho I raw material removed four that stocks j might bo accumulating at furnaces and I gave some Idea of the heavy contracts for finished products taken by the mills Jn i I some directions there Is less foreign in quirj although an unusually heavy shipment ship-ment of billets went to Glasgow and exports ex-ports of rails have not censed I Freight rates to the seacoast arc still considered excessive by manufacturers and there Is more Inclination to push domestic do-mestic business on this account Arbitration Arbitra-tion Is expected to prevent suspension of work at the furnaces where a strike was threatened on February 1st Pooling of coke Interests outside the ConnellBvlllo region Is being discussed but thequailty has always been Inferior and sales only effected at concessions Further improvement is seen in footwear foot-wear and manufacturers arc receiving amplo orders Shipments from Boston I thus far amount to 326132 cases against OCA < In 1fli T s nftttff lioa lMn I T Airril n In demand although prices are steady Hides at Chicago fluctuated widely with more grades sold at concessions than advances ad-vances It Ig difficult to find encouraging fca turea In the wool situation Sales for tim week at the chief Eastcrn eltlcT were 1000000 pounds than lie preceding week and In Iho four weeks the aggregate Is only 1327o700 pounds against 21501700 pounds last year Not only Is there an utter ut-ter absence of speculative operations but purchases by manufacturers nro restricted to requirements for orders on hand Domestic Do-mestic quotations have not hardened In sympathy with the better prices obtained London while a few sales arc reported at moderate concessions Hopes for the futuro are based on Indifference of dealers deal-ers and growers lo sell at current prices but present heavy slocks will be nag menlcd In a few months by the new clip Staple producLs have moved within narrow limits Illllo attentIon being given lo widely varying estimates from Argentina Argen-tina or reports of damage In the Northwest North-west through Insufficient snow Despite the advance In prices over those prevailIng prevail-ing a year ago exports of wheat Including Includ-ing Hour from Atlantic ports for the week wnro 256SS1S bushels against 1011149 last year yearFailures for tho week wore 305 in the United Stales agaInst 231 last year and 15 in Canada against 3S last year |