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Show MANY GOOD THINGS ! IHE PHBIH MARKET Demand Also Is Good, and flic Dealers Are Very Happy- There was an abundance of good things on market row Friday, and dealers reported re-ported a good demand for them. In fact, Friday was about the busiest day they have experienced so far this week. Fresh vegetables met with an unusually heavy demand, especially lettuce and potatoes. Of course, there was a good demand for fish, also. Friday, as Is always the case on "fish day." The market is now well supplied with all seasonable varieties of fresh Itsh and the prices are firm and steady. Then; is still a good supply of fresh oysters on the market, but the season for hndJh; is rapidly Hearing a close. Crabs arc plentiful plen-tiful at 30 and 35 cents each. There, is very little change in Ihe meat matket, and poultry continues very scarce. The greater part of the demand Is filled with eastern birds. Bradstroot's Beview. NEW YORK. April 23. Bradstrecfs tomorrow to-morrow will say: Trade conditions arc without much change, and Irregularity Is still the leading lead-ing feature In business and Industrial lines. Results of spring business are, as n. whole, disappointing. There Is. however, how-ever, more doing In wholesale lines for next fall and winter, and tho tone lu this branch Is fairly optimistic. There Is considerably more activity In tho pig Iron markets. A large part of this, however, appears to be at the. expense ex-pense of price.-. The coal trado Is quiet. In the lending textile industry there Is little r linage to note. Cotton goods arc reported firm, with most woolen goods strong and raw wool prices hardening Foreign wools show Increased sales, and eastern buyers are reported contracting more freely for western clips. There Is a better tone In the leather market, where prices ore firmer. Manufacturers Manu-facturers are eortnlnly buying more freely, free-ly, though they report little increase in orders. Eastern shoo shipments arc 21 per cent larger than a year ago, but still behind 1907. Rulldlng Is active the country over. Huslncss failures In the I'nlled Stats for the week ending April 22 were 217. agninst 201 last week. 254 In the like week of 108. 1.57 in 1007. 177 in 1906. and 103 in 1005. m Canada the. week's failures number 3G. against 27 last week and 36 In this week In "100S. Wheat (Including flour) exports from the United, Slates and Canada for the week ending April 22 aggregate 1.5S5.77.S bushels, ngalnft 1.475.506 last week and 2.417.003 this week lost yenr. For the forty-three weeks ending April 22 this year, the exports are 157.016.348 bushels, against 170,700,065 In the corresponding period last year. Corn exports for the week are 1.080.40S bushels, against 700,-S00 700,-S00 last week and 371.347 in 190S. For I ho forty-three weeks ending April 22. corn exports are IT 040,710 bushels, against 43,-615,403 43,-615,403 la3t year. Dun's Trado Review. ; NEW YORK. April 23. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade will say , tomorrow: Faith In the future Is more pronounced I than Is satisfaction with conditions, j There is no more noteworthy feature of the trade outlook than tho steadily growing grow-ing confidence that, with the tariff discussion dis-cussion out of the ay and with U12 year's principal e.-ip5 nssurod, the progress prog-ress lowaul a ful! Industrial prosperity will be rapid. Iron and steel conditions reflect' a broader demand In some divisions, notably nota-bly In pig Iron. With some Improvement In the volume of hiMuirles and with raw lotion at high level, prices have held linn In thn primary cotton goods market. About 1000 hales of Standard drills have been sold to India, anr' mall orders for the Red sea .'mi Africa have been placed. In the woolen good? division practlcal-Ij practlcal-Ij all clothing sai's-mc-n are now on tho road, nnd considerable cuplicnti' business busi-ness Is already reported. A very fair demand de-mand Is noted on wool goods, and on worsted stocks many lines are sold up, while others are sharply advanced in price. In the hide market pronounced strength has developed in all lines, and nctlvo buying buy-ing has been in progress throughout tho week. While there hn.e been no further sales of unusual size In the leather mnr-kel, mnr-kel, there Is a steady demand from small buyers, and the market, on the whole, shows an improvement over lnst month. Prices are firm, owing to the rapidly advancing ad-vancing hide market. Cotton Letter. James A. Pollock t Co.. bankers and brokers, furnish the following, received over their private wire yesterday afternoon: after-noon: Logan Bryan Cotton Letter. New York Texas rains when thev do occur may soften values for a moment, but once out of tho way would permit the fearless buying of an .article now far below Its Intrinsic value. "We continue to believe cotton has enough merit to preent any procipltatc decline below present levels. |