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Show ton at a high level, prices h hid firm lu tho primary cotton goods mar-j mar-j ket. About l,fi(io hilog of standard drills have' ripon sold to India ami small orders for Ihc Red Sea aud Africa ; rfave been placed. In the woolr-n goodn division practically prac-tically all clothing salesmen are now on the roal and considerable duplicate business is already reported. A very fair demand Ih noted on wool poods and in worsted stocks many lines are sold up while others are sharply advanced ad-vanced in price. I In the hide market pronounced strength hasdfvelopd In all lines and ' active buying has been In progress ' throughout the week. While there have been no further sales of unusual j size in the leather market, there is a j ; steady demand from small buyers, and j j the market on the whole tdiows an im- I i provemcnt over last mouth. Prices ' Pare firm owing to the rapidly advanc- . ing hide market. DUN'SJEYIEW New York, April 23. R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade will say: Faith In the future is more pronounced pronounc-ed than Is satisfaction with immediate immedi-ate conditions. There is no more noteworthy note-worthy feature of the trade outlook than the steady growing confidence that, with the tariff discussion out of the way and with the principal crop assured, the progress toward a full industrial prosperity will be rapid. Iron and stoel conditions reflect a broader demand In some divisions, notably pig iron. With some Improvement in the volume vol-ume of Industries and with raw cot- |