Show OF WOOL 11GE increase is Shown at ThreeS Three-S Chief Eastern Markets 1 I i I PRICES ARE NOT ALTERED Bids Slightly Below the Market Are t Hsfused Cottou Goods Move Frscly Wheat Continues on its Downward Down-ward Course Minor Metals Are Quiet Except for Further Weakness in Tin Silver Reaches the Highest I Price in Four Years Conditions in Iron and Steel Market Improved Now York Oct 26fl G Dun Coe Weekly Review of Tradi tomorrow viil say The elections mean a great deal to all business IntoroHts and although confldcnca In the future hi seen on eve v hand It Is but natural that men do not care to take unnecessary chances and therefore delay new engagements as far us possible until after tho ballots are counted But contracts for steel rails for the season thus far are within 00000 tons of last year heavy booking and tIle confidence In an ultimate marked ImproM mont Is so strong that all raw materials arc firm and without any speculative activity ac-tivity to sllmulatn them Tho agitation for an advanco In billets though a small one Is an Indication of what the Iron and steel markets expect In the next six months and In time great Industries sellera of material could easily mnko heavy contracts con-tracts If thy cared to attach political provisions to their ugncments However unreasonable features may be It Is likely to be bettor for business In the long run than tho conservative Ideas which for ilio present are entertained The wrather over a irrcat part of the country hasbeen favorublo for agricul tural operations which arc progressing well and In the East the unseasonable tcmpcratum have retarded general trade comparatively little as there has been no great stimulus yet this season Conditions In the Iron and steel mar hot steadily Improved orders gradually swell In volnmo and buyers make less effort to secure concessions In most cases quotations are not altered but there Is an advance to 20 In Philadelphia for billets owing to the bettor business In rails Pip Iron moves freely especially at Chicago wbcro manufacturers > have contracted heavily for finished stuff In excess of raw material on hand Cast Iron pipe Is In urgent demand and new plans for shipbuilding will take plates Brldgcbullders arc buying structural forms heavily Makers of rails and other products of Iron havo been accused of moling better terms to foreign than to domestic buvera If thin Is done it would seom to be the manufacturers affair rather than the newspapers Minor metals are quiet except for further weakness In tin Silver has reached the highest price In four years Wheat also continued Its downward course owing to the good news here and abroad but an encouraging feature was the accelerated foreign buying aa quotations quota-tions declined Atlantic exports for the week Were 2S3302S bushels against 2253 UZTj a year ago and Pacific shipments STOW3 bUHliels against CVSrSS Jast year Sales of wool at tho thrco chief East era markets continue to Increase exceed lug five millions pounds lust week Prices are not altered and bids slightly below the market are refused Cotton goods move rather more freely as the prlco comes nearer parity with raw materials but wide sheetings uro dull at the advance to 22c Failures for time weohc were 205 In the United States against IPO last year and 23 In Canada against 27 lust year |