Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-05-29 | Page 18 | Bradstreet's Review

Bradstreet's Kevlew. NKW YORK, May 2S. Bradstrcet's tomorrow to-morrow will nay: Improvement is moro In evidence this week, but Irregularities In weather and crop conditions and ebb and flow movements move-ments In trade and Industry prevent definite defi-nite general characterization of the situation. situa-tion. House trade with jobbers and wholesalers is not usually active and efforts to attract business by clearance sales and liberal advertising have not been altogether successful. Thero Is a further apparent gain In the optimism with which the outlook for tho moro distant dis-tant future Is viewed, contrasting rather sharply with some of the roports indicating indicat-ing backwardness of demand for Immediate Imme-diate consumption. The shoo and leather leath-er trades are In better shape, duo partly to the great strength of hides and tho finished products of solo and upper leather. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United Stales and Canada for the week ending May 27 aggregate 3,182,809 bushels, against 2,338,000 (the corrected total for last week), and 2.S7S.269 this week last year. For the forty-eight weeks ending May 27 this year the corrected exports are I60.S93.177 bushels, against 188.SR4.516 In the corresponding period last year. Corn exports for the week arc S8.622 bushels, against 114,696 (corrected) last week and 237,151 in 1908. For the forty-eight forty-eight weeks ending May 27 corn exports are 28.940,198 bushels, against 41,770,996 bushels last year. Business failures in the United States for tho week ending May 27 were 205, against 219 last. week. 263 in tho like week of 190S, 142 In 1907, 127 in 1906, and 154 in 1905. Business failures Ihls week In Canada number 22. which compares with 23 last week and 31 In the same week of 1908.