Show GE m L TR Df I IS rICKI PICKING G UPS UP Particularly So In hi the West and South but Not in New England FALL ORDERS WILL BE DE GOOD Conditions of Business Are Arc Sound Distribution of or Mer Improves New vow York May MIlY dispatch ea to the International Mercantile Agency Indicate that general trade IS 18 picking UP throughout tho the west and anil andr r south louth louth Eastern business a has also been except In the tho Now England slates Incident to tho tiro rather general shutting down of o cotton COUOh mills miln Is la marked l effect Most lost l of improvement Is 18 to morn mom the be weather u Ind d bullet belief that thai t underlying ng aro 1110 sound and 1111 of o good goad tall fall orders Territory adjacent to 10 Omaha hows ah ang Jobbing trade trado with good ro re i orders excellent demand tor for spring Goode good Although mindful l lI I of cf the tho possible set eel backs of a I presidential ual year ar merchants are aro buying with confidence wholesalers reporting a normal nur lal gain compared with lust last t season Farmers rs IN aro ro generally encouraged lit ut the outlook lle of ot lumber nt at St StLouis Louts Louis have lIa been teen largo and railroads at ut that centre report Improved during the week neek Distribution of ot merchandise In and antl About nb ut shows decided Improve melt Is lit specially noted In wearing arel and furnishing goodu goode the tho total volume for tho the sea season son fun is la dy up to tho the 1903 1013 record In the city of o Chicago o halo trado has been beon somewhat disturbed by y and lo to cal are arc displaying great treal cau lion Hon Labor Libor is Ic much notch mute than thana 6 a year oar ago The Ile up in do lake laka has had ns as yet et but bul slight influence Hull la 15 active nt Chicago April sta statistic allowing that plans plain havo been t taken ken out for tor new ne buildings costing 0 This fills represents a n 1 gain over oer one ye year car it ngo ago of ot HO buildings Winter wheat In the southwest lins been helped by b morn mort favorable weather Too mush rain raft In to the tho northwest tills has ro larded the tho of et wring spring wheat and conditions condition east cast of ot tho the serious In the Ohio val valley nl ley I Y dl t where only on the average yield Is looked for Loss 1016 of acreage shown shosun in tho the government re ye report port rort Is la neither n surprising nor unusual it may my roB still bo be reclaimed If It the weather continues good St at Paul laul district to re reports ports a II larger spring wheat wheal acreage than usual outlook In the trait Iron Industry Is In Still Mill modified by the attitude altitude of ct tile the railroads which will not buy huy under present condl lions One Ona western system Is wild to havo have held heM back bock an nil order for tor ears until after election reports nothing encouraging In the for structural material and plates pia lea abl RbI hardware Is however In active The situation Is much com coin complicated by the tho disruption of ot tho the ore oro pool 1101 and tho generally unsatisfactory dory tune of the th market |