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Show BRADSTREETS . New York. April 16. Drad street's tomorrow will say: "Weather, crop and Industrial reports re-ports are still very Irregular, rendering render-ing general characterization difficult. Taken as a whole; there Is. however, a slightly larger business doing, this being particularly true of retail trade in section whore, weather permits and booking for fall and winter delivery de-livery at wholesale, l.usine?8 on the Pacific coast has expanded slightly, particularly In Cal-liornla. Cal-liornla. In the central west, retail trade Is expanding slowly and rather better business Is reported with conn-try conn-try merchants, but jobbing activity Is i'ot as pronounced a It was some veoks ago. Industry In a rather spotted condition. con-dition. There Is more doing In Iron and steel, but largely. It Is claimed, at the expense of prices. While reports of inactivity In the leather market seem rather premature it la evident that manufacturers are buying more freely. Hides are. how-cvtr, how-cvtr, rather quiet. Eastern shoe manufacturers man-ufacturers have about come to the end of their orders. ' ' , Business failures in the United States for the week ending with April were 201. against 277 last week, 2GI in the like week of 1008, 17 In 1907; 187 in 1fi07. and 1S3 in J 00.. The week's failures In Canada number num-ber 27, which compare with 38 last week and 25 in the like week of 100$. Wheat, Including flour 'exports from tho United States and Canada for the week ending April 15, aggregate ! 1,475.000 bushels against 1.062,241 last week, and 2.170,177 this week last j c ar. For the period ending April IS this 5 ear the exports arc 150.060.570 bushels bush-els against 174,379,692 In the same period last year. Corn exports for the week are 799.-800 799.-800 against 926.89S last week and 202.93S In 1903. For the forty-two weeks ending April 15. corn exports are 26.569.30S bushels against 43.211,- '. ; '. |