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Show invEui in ALMNDUSTRIES Demand for Manufactured Products Broadens; Impetus Im-petus in Building. LIBERAL CONSUMPTION MAKES PRICES HIGHER Dun and Bradstreet Agree That Prosperous Conditions Continue Con-tinue on All Sides. NEW YORK, Sopt. 3. Dun's weekly review of trado tomorrow will say: Commercial news continues most satisfactory, satis-factory, improvement being reported In almost every case, except the further declines de-clines In prices of securities. Crops arc being harvested undor most favorable conditions and a few weeks moro without severe frost will put tho yield of corn and cotton beyond danger Mills Well Occupied. Industrial progress Is accelerated by tho broadening demand for Iron and steel products, textllo mills and shoo factories aro well occupied, while the demand for material testifies to extension of building build-ing operations. Considering tho prosperous prosper-ous conditions, labor struggles are exceptionally ex-ceptionally few. Consumption Causes Rise. Liberal consumption has caused a further fur-ther slight rlso ln tho level of commodity prices, Dun's lndox number on September Septem-ber 1 advancing to 5100,308 from 5S9.S4G a month previous and 579.S12 a year ago. when business was much less vigorous. Somo congestion of traffic Is noted, nnd railway earnings ln August wero G.3 per cent larger than In tho same month of 1I-0L Foreign Commerce Gains. Foreign commcrco at tho short week showed gains of 51.24S.40O ln exports and 5007.122 ln Imports, ns compared with tho movements of a year ago. A firm tono continues to prevail ln tho hide market, although there Is somo evldcnco evl-dcnco of Irregularity. Failures this week numbered 160 ln tho United States against 200 last year, and 23 In Canada, compared with 16 a year ago. |