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Show REVIEWS M M TRADE CfDlTIGlS NEW YORK, July 29 Bradstreefs tomorrow will say: Trade Is still quiet as a whole, more so indeed In some lines thau wa.s the case last week and quieter even than ordinarily at this mid-summer penod. While conservatism con-servatism still governs future operations opera-tions by wholesalers and Jobbers and retail or final distribution Is still disappointing, dis-appointing, there are, now ever, some movements which Indicate'a more optimistic op-timistic outlook in leading basic lines There are belter repons us to the demand de-mand for finished Iron and steel, copper, cop-per, some makes of cotton goods, based apparently on the advance ia raw materials and lu raw wool. Business failures in the United States for the week ending July 28 were lftS against 211 last week and 223 in the like week in 1000. BOSTON, July 20 The Commercial Commer-cial Bulletin will .say tomorrow of the wool market : A fair movement in the New Zealand Zea-land cross brcds thirty-sixes to forty-sixes forty-sixes Is reported at 31 to 3S; Merino G Is at 75, clean Argentine Uncoln at 31 to 32 and qtrarterblood at II. Aggregate Bales are fully I.OOo bales, two prominent New Fngland mills taking the offerings. About one million mil-lion pounds of Ohio and Michigan fleeces were also sold at 2S to 28 1-2 for quarterbloods. 27 to 20 for three-eighths three-eighths and halfblood at 2S to 26 for unwashed Ohio decline. A moderate business is being done In fine to fine medium territory at 63 to .l.lc scoured. The shipments of wool from Boston to Julv 2S, increu.se wero 1 OS.C54.555 against 1H.H6.CC7 pounds for the same time last year. The receipts to July 2S increase were H0.6fi9,fil7 lbs. against 261.071.174 pounds for the tame- period last year. |