Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-08 | Page 13 | Business is Quiet

BUSINESS IS QUIET. Long Decline In Farm Products Credited With Retarding Trade. NEW YORK. April 7. Bradstrcet's' tomorrow will say: Trade and Industry are quiet, disappointingly disap-pointingly so in most sections. It is to be noted the.t the long decline In most farm products is credltod at a few points with belnS a retarding influence upon trade. On tho other hand, good weather and price revisions are helping the cotton goods trade. In the leading industries there Is not much new. Iron and steel fail to show growth In demand. Woolen goods and textiles generally feel the effects of the threatened revision of the tariff, while farm products reflect renewal of reciprocity talk and tho paucity pau-city of export demand, as woll as the Improved outlook for winter wheat. Business failures In the United States for the week ending April 6 were 236, against 260 last week. 210 In tho like week of 1910, 227 In 1909, 25S in 1908 and 194 in 1907. Business failures in Canada for the week number 23, sis comparod with 66 last week and 26 In the corresponding week of 1910. Wheat, Including flour, exports from the United States and tC'anada for the week ending April 6 aggregated 2,143,013 bushels, against 3.576.864 last week and 777.0S6 this week last year. In corn, exports ex-ports for the week are 1.616.045 bushels, against 1.725.2S6 last week and 635,621 in 1910.