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Show COMMERCIAL REPORTS Bradstreet's Review of Trade Shows Business on a Sound Basis. NEAV YORK. March 23. Bradstreet's tomorrow will sny: Trade reports are still rather mixed in character. Business feels tho effect of winter weather, heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures, which have' hurt early fruits and truck Interests, retarded retard-ed retail trade and affected Jobbing sales and shipments. Building operations havo been Interrupted, but this 13 only tom- Eorar3 and the winter wheat crop has cen put buyond harm by tho heaviest snowfall in "years at this period. Railway earnings are really magnificent, the mild wlnicr being a ditstlnct influence, and the ratio of gross receipts carried over to not has never been equalled. Bualness failures In the United States for the week ending March 22 numbered 150, against ITS last week; 204 In the like week of 1&5; 215 In 10I; 175 In 1S03, and 1S3 In 1902. In Canada failures for the week number 29. ns against 23 last week and IS In this week a year ago. Wheat, including Hour, shipments for the week ending March 22 arc 2,303,012 bushels, against 2.010,237 bushels last week, 1.0-J4.5D 1 this week last year, 1.301.&I5 In 1901. and 2 041.9S7 In 1903. From July 1 to date tho exports arc 101,-M5,04 101,-M5,04 bushels, agalnct 4G.C13.70C last year, 114.732,2 In 190-1, and 170.S29.61G in 1D03. Corn export for the week aro J!,173,S2C bushels, against 2,335,262 bushels last year. 2,97C.S3C a year ago, 1.527.C7G In 1901, and 3.G1S.210 In 1903. Prom July .1 to date the exports of corn are S2.32G.275 bushels, against 55.Ott.204 In 1905, 4t.04b.5CS in 1901, nnd 44,439,823 in 1503. Dun's Report. NEW YORK, March 23. R. G. Dun's weekly rcviow of trade, tomorrow will say: Total distribution of spring merchandise has received a check because of the heavy bnowfall and severe storms In many sections sec-tions of the country, but some offset Is noted In renewed Inquiry for winter grades nnd there Is no Interruption to tho activity of shipping departments. Railway earnings for March thus far rurpass last year'H by 9.1 per cent, and foreign commerce at this port for the last week shows u gain of ?2,G37,032 in Imports Im-ports over tho same period of 1905, while oxports arc prnctically unchanged. Ono of the best fca.tures of the Iron and rieel Industry Is the steady demand for steel rails. No decrease Is noticed In tho activity of textile mills, producers exhibiting exhib-iting persistent confidence In tho future, despite the Irregularity that Ls noted In primary markets. A somewhat better tone In tho hide market was tho result of last week's activity ac-tivity In leather. The foreign hide mar- ' ket has developed somo lrreguarty, dry skins ruling steudy, but wet saulted Mexican Mex-ican becoming fractlonnlly weaker. Failures this woclt numbered 213 in the United States, against 235 last year, and 37 In Canada, compared with 1G a year J ago. J |