Show DUNS OPINION I Moderate Improvement In Business I in West and South New York Sept 7R G Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will say The volume of business does not materially enlarge at the East and there Is only moderate Improvemnt at the West and South but If expectations of greater activity when politics cease to disturb are realized current opert tlons will be found to have laid a substantial sub-stantial foundation The most Important Import-ant event of the week In the Industrial world was the agreement on the tinplate tin-plate wage scale with the Amalgamated association granting about S per cent advance to 35000 hands long idle Other metal workers disputes arc nearing a settlement while the Borden purchase of 000000 pieces of print cloths at 2c clears up the Fall River market anl Is believed to preclude serious wage differences there The final decision of the dissatisfied I anthracite miners as to a strike will be reached today If a strike Is de cldeiPupon It Is likely to Involve only a portion of the anthracite Interests and the producers are well prepared as production In Aug rT6t t was 019000 tons over last year and coal has been moving to a market for two weeks very heavily Prices of grain are little altered Cdod crop reports coming In freely but the effect Is being neutralized by a foreign for-eign estimate of the worlds crop below requirements Wheat stocks carried over were ample to meet the discrepancy discrep-ancy and traders do not seem able to advance prices more than 5c over last years price for wheat and Cc for corn This difference Is apparently satisfactory satisfac-tory I a grpwers as 7I30372 bushels of wheat were received at interior cities In the first week of September against 5945G97 bushels last year Exports from Atlantic ports amounted to oniy 1902510 bushels wheat flour included against 2900960 bushels a year ago The Atlantic shipments of corn made a better comparison than In rCcent weeks 2923079 bushels against 3051009 bushels last year Cotton is strong In the face of a larger yield than expected Business In Iron and steel products steadily increases and mills arc more actively employed October 1st Is mentioned men-tioned as the probable date of a general gen-eral resumption It Is significant that shipyards on the lakes and the Pacific coast are full of orders for eight months 01 more As to pig Iron the outlook In no better In spite of a decrease in production to 231778 tons weekly according ac-cording to the Iron Age furnace stocks have Increased to 594218 1 tons a gain of 59877 during August but the increase In-crease in demand was noteworthy until un-til August 11th Railroads have refused I fused to make a reduction In freight rates which Is wan hoped would Increase In-crease exports Bessemer pig and gray forgo further declined 1 per ton at Pittsburg although no change Is reported re-ported at other points Copper continues con-tinues firm with electrolytic higher at lGc hid and tin advanced moderately I Last weeks I shipments of boots and shoes from Bo toll were only 70315 case against 71277 Jn the previous week and for the year thus far tho decrease compared with 1S99 has amounted to 251315 cases Sales of wool at the three chief Eastern East-ern markets declined to 2833000 pounds against 123700 pounds in I the previous week 9225200 pounds last year Tho dullness wna pot accompanied by any pronounced weakness although Cantos Bros circular for September 1st made the average price 20c for all grades against 20V c a month earlier Jn the woolen goods market there Is a rather deceptive appearance of greater activity activ-ity Bulk of the business In new lines recently put out as substitute for standard goods and a lower price Failures for the week were 115 In the United States against 132 last year and 21 In Canada against 10 last year |