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Show I DUN'S REVIEW OF . TRADE CONDITIONS - f NEW YORK, April 1.-R. G. Dun & Coa Weekly Review of Trade today. says: ' Much deferred' Easter business was transacted during the last few days and some aectlqns report satisfactory results, but at many points the weather la not yet normal, and dh the whole the season's trade thus far compares unfavorably with last year's volume. ' x Manufacturing returns are corffllctlnr,v iron and steel plants gaining ground, footwear exhibiting- the natural reaction from an unprecedented production in 1903, while the textile mills have much idle ma-, chine ry and little forward business to encourage operations. Lumber and building build-ing materials are In better demand, although al-though floods at the West and labor troubles trou-bles at the East retarded structural work to some extent. Commercial failures this week in the United States are 20S, against 228 last week, 229 the preceding week and ltS In the corresponding week last year. ' Failures in Canada number 16, .against 15 last week, 21 the preceding Week and 18 last year. - |