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Show BUSINESS GROWS BRIGHTER, This tho Outlook as Viowed hy Dun's Agency. NEW YORK. Oct. 7. R. G, Dun's weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: "With the crops almost boyond danger, j prices of securities at the highest point since May, 1903, and ldlo machinery resuming1 re-suming1 In factories that have boon closed for months, tho business outlook grows stoadlly brighter. By far tho best features fea-tures of tho situation Is tho conll.lcncu manifested by an Increased disposition to provide for futuro rcqUlrcmoniD. This In by no means general, but It li noticed at plg-lron furnaces, woolen mills and among dealers at widely separated points, particularly par-ticularly those located In the agricultural sections. "Mercantile collections also aro moro prompt and railway earnings for tho month of September woro 3.6 per cont larger than In tho same month last year, while foreign commerco at this point for tho last week shows increases of $1,051,203 In Imports and J410.74S In exports na compared com-pared with a year ago. "Dlspatchca from tho leading cities aro almost unanimous in telling of Improved conditions. Hides hav shown unusual activity, at a goncrally higher level of Drlccjs. "Failures In tho Unltod States aro 222, against 223 last week, 225 the preceding week and 239 tho corresponding week lust year. Failures In Canada number 26, against IS last week, 30 tho preceding week and 17 tho corresponding week of la3t year." |