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Show WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. All Lines of Business and Industry Still Prosperous. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Dun's Review tomorrow to-morrow will suy: No Important change has taken place In the business situation during tho last week. The leading Industries and trades arc still prosperous, and the undercurrent undercur-rent of conservatism that exists In some quarters has not retarded: to any measure meas-ure We- extent the steady broadening of Industrial and mercantile activity. The Balkan situation has caused some financial finan-cial strain abroad and part of the heavy European gold requirements have been shifted to this side. This, In connection with tho demands occasioned by our Increasing In-creasing domestic trade, has imparted a silRhtly firmer tone to the money market. T he open winter, while somewhat favorable fav-orable to retail trado, has afforded a stimulus to various branches of Industry. Building and allied lines, for example, have been generally active and the unusual un-usual weather has added materially to tho already largo traffic of the railroads, whose s-ross earnings during four weeks 01 January increased 13.9 per cent. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding the strike in the clothing Industry, the important textile trades arc prosperous. Recent enow has improved winter wheat conditions. The record of foreign commerce continues to bo one of the striking features of the business situation. sit-uation. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Bradstrccts tomorrow to-morrow will say: Trade is expanding, visiting buyers arc Increasing their purchase? as the season progresses and in. consequent February opens auspiciously. Retail dealers continue con-tinue to press Jobhcrs for goods; colder weathor has Imparted zest to final distribution: dis-tribution: Industrial operations are as active ac-tive as heretofore: winter wheat Is In good shape: money is in active demand and. save in a. few linen, merchants display dis-play no particular apprehension over prospective tariff changes. Copper is very dull and the undertone la weak. Farmers arc holding their conrso grains, and lower tompcralures have brought more llrmness in prices for foodstuffs. food-stuffs. Soli conditions in parts of the southwest have boon improved by recent 'alio of snow, but there Is room for further fur-ther Improvement, though the wheat belt as a whole, ati well as tho crop, is In good shape. Money Is In good request and banks continue to be liberal buyers of commercial-paper, the supply, of which Is not abreast of demand. to Business failures for the week ending February 6 were 259. which compares with 323 In the like week of 1912- There were forty-one failures In Canada. Wheat, Including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending February' 6 axgrecrated 3.-S59.752 3.-S59.752 bushels, against S.SIG.-J.jS this week last year. Bank Statement. NEW YORK. Feb. 7. Bradstrcct's bank clearings report for the week ending end-ing February G shows an aggregate of 83.636.560.000. as against 3,288.012.000 last week and $3,462,198,000 In the corresponding corre-sponding week last year. Following Is a Hot of the cities:. Per Cent Inc. Dec. New York $2,152,357,000 5.4 .... Chicago 324.235,000 6.4 .... Boston 1D5,12S,000 1.8 Philadelphia .... 174,863.000 2.1 ... St. Louis 82.017,000 1.3 Pittsburg 62.020.000 36.0 .... Kansas City .... 55.095,000 3.5 .... San Francisco .. 54,372,000 "0.2 Baltimore , 44.086,000 11.1 .... Cincinnati .... .-. 27,693,000 12.7 .... Minneapolis 21,907.000 12.5 Los Angeles 28.(39,000 35.5 Cleveland 24.310.000 22.8 Detroit . 22,657,000 20.0 .... New Orleans .... 19.743,000 16.3 Omaha 1 6,655.000 3.1 Louisville' 16,444,000 1.4 Milwaukee 15,776,000 1.4 .... Seattle 10.231.000 ' 7.2 Portland, Or.. .. 9,925,000 5.2 St. Paul 9.92S.000 .... 3.2 Denver S.G22.000 2.5 Indianapolis .. .. S.829,000 6,3 SALT LAKE .. 0,169,000 .... 15.4 Columbus 6,952,000 2.7 Toledo 4.795.000 7.9 .... Duluth 3,133,000 32.5 .... Des Moines 4.009,000 6,4 Spokano 1.466,000 3.9 .... Tacoma 2,524,000 .... 19.0 Oakland 4,329.000 S.5 .... Peoria 3.619,000 0.1 San Diego 2,893,000 10.7 .... Dayton 2,338,000 9.0 Sacramento .. .. 1,704.000 7.S .... Cedar Itaplds ... 1,774,000 50.6 .... Waterloo 1,254,000 15.1 .... Springfield, III,.. 1.110,000 10.9 Qulncy 891.000 33.7 .... "Bloomlngton .... 596,000 5 A .. Ogden 057,000 10.0 Decatur 506,000 .... 3.0 Jacksonville, TIL. 333.000 18 5 Washlngt'n, D. C. 7.S22.000 .... 12 8 St. Joseph 7,601.000 .... 2'.S Lincoln .... .... 2,061.000 14.4 . .. Sioux City 3,044.000 36.1 |