Show BRADSTKEETS OPINION Midsummer Dullness Marks Distributive Distri-butive Trade and Industries New York June Bradstreets tomorrow to-morrow ill say Midsummer dullness In distributive trade and industry anel l further reduction of prices of manufac tureei goods particularly iron and steel and raw textiles but a maiked upward movement in nearly all agricultural products arc the leading features of time business situation this week Wheat has advanced 14 cents per bushel since June 1st and 20 cents from the low point reached In November a gain overtime over-time latter period of 27 per cent In price Corn crop advices are still in a high cie grco encouraging but that cereal has sympathized with wheat ai has also oats and hog producls have In turn felt the quickening influence of higher prices for corn Improved demand for dairy products Is reflected in slight advances this week Crop damage has been a moving cause for the advance In the price of cotton Some weakness has been noted In cotton cot-ton goods without however favorably affecting distribution Trade In dry goods has been helped by wanner weather Wool ia lower and the woolen wool-en goods market Is rather cutlet awaiting await-ing the next London wool sale und the opening of tho springweight season Weakness of pi Ices Is still the lead lug fealhre of the Iron trade and lower quotations are noted for pig iron Structural Struc-tural material has also verified piedc tlons In a decline of from 57 to 51 J per ton Domestic orders for iron tie perhaps per-haps slightly more numerous but are j for small quantities Talk of a syste matlc shutdown of Iron furnaces producing pro-ducing for Limo open market comes 1 chlelly from the South but ryhlle this subject is under commslcleratoii the disease dis-ease Ls finding a partial cfure In time I going out of blast of a number of less economical furnaces and the summer shutdown of many mills Export demand de-mand Is good but as for some time i past waits upon the question freight 1 j room The other melala are sloady and prncllcnlly unchanged in price with the i i exception of Tin which IH slightly slower I A heavy business is doing in refined sugar and the manufactur jt lire oversold over-sold m A good margjn Ofpr n 0i5thin this tradej Report from tlip IiocCzjd industryarc of rather iiJshttefuc I c rm tory trade prospects and leather and hides are rather weak at the East but strong at Chicago where heavy pur chasrn for Philippine army purposes have strengthened the situation Build lag demand for lumber is not active but white I pine Is relatively I firm Southern South-ern pine Is in oversupply In a number of markets Anthracite coal la In seasonable sea-sonable distribution while the demand for bituminous continues active Wheat including Hour shipments for time week uggregnln iiulSU bushels against 4C7S U29 bushels last week ZL 716712 bushels In the corresponding week of 1SJ9 379UI70 bushels In 1K9S 2 1SG2IC bushels in 1897 and 2SI7S51 bushels bush-els in ispu Since July 1st this season the exports of wheat aggregate IOC 170 1G2 bUHhels against 2217GOG10 bushels last year and 2290722SS bushels In 1S97 ys Failures Jn the United Slates for the week number Ifi7 compared with ISO last week 199 In this week a year ago 220 in 1898 215 In 1S97 and 218 In 1S9G Failures in the Dominion of Canada for the wwk number 2S against 28 last week 22 In this week a year ago 10 In 18l S and 189G and 17 In 1S97 |