Show BUSINESS IS III SOUND of point New York Jan SR Tt G 0 Dunn Co Cos Week Weekly RevIew ot o Trade tomorrow say Eay Failures In 9 were In tram num number bar ber with liabilities ot of The Tho Thelast last Jut days ot o the year added n a few to the tho num number r and some millions to the known liabilitIes ot of firms and bonks banks which tailed failed close to the end so 60 that commercIal defaults reached of oC which were In lag Ing In trading and 94 In brokerage other commercial lIa bill Most people In business have hae been so 10 occupied with their accounts and the ot of the past year that little new business has yet et been done No tendency In or In trading appears and less change than was anticipated In money markets There Is nothing unsound unBOund In the of Dt the great ent Industries but buton on nn extensive revision of oC prices may disappoint expectations Two Ways ays ot of stimulating busineSs are adopt adopted ed cd Time The Iron Ago Ag nol s transactions of oC magnitude In foundry Iron which In ha Indicate dicato that some ar are willing to tomake make mak conre sons to the trade ot of good customers Hut the Steel and WIre com company pan has hns advanced d prices of oC wire nails nalls barbed and smooth wire 25 cents Bessemer pig IlIg Is 19 not higher titan than It was six sl wes ago and steel plates have declined from Crom to a nt at Philadelphia Jars bars at 1 from rom 22 to and sheets sheet from to white while the structural and have held but re refused fused to advance prices Some new busi business business ness I Is but not enough as yet yetto yetto to Indicate the tendency In tin after n a fall from 33 to 25 c cents the prices ro rose to 2525 n Lon Len London Lendon don and In copper m 16 cents Is quoted instead ot of t cents a month ago ogo The disposition to ask hl higher her prices Is seen sean In boots and shoes 20 cents advance be beIng behag hag Ing naked asked In some for tor which cents was d anc and paid In November rIme yIelding In hides ot at Chicago In spite ot of short receipts because warm wann weather has checked checkel killing by farmers has reached G 6 per cent In the month Cotton goods are nt at time the highest quotations ot of year with good do de cotton has bas declined n a lit little littie tie tle nut But the goods were fit at no time ad advanced advanced quite In proportion to the ma material and are In that cheaper now titan a year ago Woolen goods are also much lower with respect to wool than a year ear ago aro and some further advance has been expected Wool Is strongly held though prIces ot of n a month ago cannot be oh ob obtained tamed Cotton not rise further be because because cause recel te from have somewhat Increased sed and accounts ot of large stocks at many small towns have attracted attention Southern mills which can easily supply with large stocks from the surrounding coun country country try without passIng the cotton through an any market r drawing It until It Is wanted many hae done so 10 for their protection on against the publicly public nn an announced combination last fall Call to raise rolEe prices Theo mills consumed last year babe hut but are arc reckoned as hn hay haying In ing taken for tor this years cars crop only oo Wheat t still moves moes very ery sluggishly sluggish with small change In prices In six al months t the crop year car about bushels flour included have been ex cx ported against bushels lat last year Atlantic ft have now fallen Calten to only bushels for tor the week t Int year and Pacific exports were bushels against last year The price Is practical I unchanged as also for Cor corn of oC which have been exported for forthe forthe the week against last year eaf Failures for tor the week have been In the United States against t week and 19 In Canada against 24 last week |