Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-05-12 | Page 6 | R. G. Dun's Review

R. G. Dun's Beview. NEW TORK. May 12 R. G. Dun & x Ca's Weekly Review of Trade today says: "Domestic Industrial conditions are rreatly improved by the anthracite coal 'i settlement and the resumption of traffic ?: on the lakes, while the International sit-r sit-r - uatioa Is much brighter now that the ' ' French elections have passed without a serious outbreak. This element of uncer-1 uncer-1 talnty as to the crops tends to maintain ; quotations of staples at a high position. Dun's index number of commodity prices on May 1 was $100,059, against m.m six months previous, the slight decline be-. be-. " In supplied by 'dairy and garden products, pro-ducts, but compared with the level of all quotations a year ago there is . an ad-' ad-' - vanoe of 8.7 per cent. ; "Railway -earnings thus far available for April show a gain of 8.7 per cent over ? the previous year, and foreign commerce '- at this port for the last week exhibits gains of $4,526,277 In exports and $428,538 in imports, as compared with the same week In 1905. i'Fallures this week were 209 In the United States, against 197 last week, and 17 In Canada, compared with 21 a year ago."