Show OUTLOOK FOR TflADE Advices as a Whole are of a Cheerful Character THE VALUES ARE UNABATED Permanent Feature of the Past Week Has been tho Increase In Strength of Form Products Nearly All the Cereals Pork Products and Cotton I Advancing Material for Manu I facturo and the Products Thereof i Have Generally Remained Steady or Unchanged J I I I Now York March 16 Brad streets tomorrow to-morrow will say f Trade advices are asa j as-a whole cheerful and the stretch of values Is apparently unabated though somo soft spots still prcpent themselves A permanent perma-nent fcaluri this week bus been iho Increase In-crease In strength of vuluei of larm products pro-ducts nearly all Ihn cereals pork pro ductF and cotton advancing while jima lerlaltf for manufacture and the I products thereof have generally remained steady or I unchanged Tho Cfovernmonl report on the riuanllty of corn In farmers hand showed a email iT than expected supply and quite an outbreak of speculative Intfrent occurred tympnthlxcd In L > wheat and both cvroals reached the highest point touched on tho crop of 1W JL > l < uldatlonK on tin ndvanco brought about yomr > reaction In prices growing wheat crop advlccn prov Intr rnllui dpnreMxIn nn ri vlmlrt mill l I h > Htatlsllcal ponltlon remaining as bearish un pointed out In thvso columns hist week The c < bids quntatlons ubnve those I of a we > k ufco It Mvms evident that tho weathr und the growing crops will on stltute prlmaklng features for nomo llmo to come ManufacturTB of shoes iro busy and weather conditions haLve rather favored time rim iitr by ennbllng him lo dispose of some carrledover clocks Copper has boon stronger In tone Lead owing lo Iirgo receipts Is I firm but slightly Iuoi than a week ago Vool Is fairly steady but nianufac turirs are out of the market and con cessions can be obtained though London advices an better Anthracite Is louver In keeping with tIme iidvjjnced stage of tho season while bituminous grades of coal aio tlrm Though quiet the Iron and stuel situa tion has developed a rather more confi dent lone Less is Inard about shaded quotations I though on tho I other hand the I volumo of new business has not been very large Some lowgrade pR Iron has been iiKivud at concessions By the tak lug of orders for Bes tmer pig at Pllln burg this week tho entire production for th llrU half of the yinr In that district has bfM n placed Southern Iron advices ure of Hieadv prices and of nuher moro Inqulrv on ixporl account Kxnpi Imnndlalely In I Ihlcago m wliere tin ldl Mi < M < of many thousand I of mnlm hus mu < b < for dullness 1 In thr t Muulilncrv ond kindred trader the AVesUrn iron situation MfiiiN a strong one Ilport i < of conilng I Mutlvltv in rallroud building multiply but It I Is possible that u lids eoiistrucllon mnv bo put upon the reports that I itOu nilbs of f new road ire nroj itcd Tho heaviest miltage ever m built wis In 1SS7 when bsiy than t lJuO miles tie to on hlmuted apcl It Is of cdtire safe to say that I ni lhlng like mis i largo u total will I bo built this year as Is reported projected moro piirllciihirly now nillroad building I I will be largely a mailer of extensions of < lslliig lines rather than the building of iuw roads JSiruciural material Is In bet tar reiio < l and some very large ruiilrarts will I I shortly be plnccd Wheat I lincluillng Hour shlnmenls for the week acfgresalo 2277130 hushils against J2M > 71S bushels laat week llll I < > l bushd > In I tin I coiTfsnondlng eeaiC of I t K < ri57i i Ijiisluls In UW lI52i1l busluls In JL7 and lfWta bushils In liTNJ yimr July 1st this sejiMjn thy I exports uf wheat iaugrepitc Hl2uOSi3t5 btsluls agulnst 173 227lt lavt yam and 17L6372V biiyhLs in Business failures In tho United States for the weok number 190 as Compared with 1ST hint week 203 In this week a year ago 3 In ISfS 33 in bl7 and TA > In lfit I C JJusIiuSS failures In the Dominion of Canada for the week number 2S as compared com-pared with 23 last week 21 In this week L m > tar ago A In 3MS CC In 17 und W In 1S 1 > |