Review Of Trade

The retarding nfluence of cold and unseasonable weather has passed. The galn In business in sjilte of it was srcn a week ago and has bocome clearer to all. As no genutne lmproveinent ever beglns with an uplifting of prices before the producing force has becorue fairlv employee!, thls does not. There 5 evidence ot gradually enlarglng öusiness in overy important Óepartnient, more establlshmoñta have been set at work and more hands employed, and whlle prudence stlll hlnders speculatlye excesses, tix$ progress toward better thlngs unchecked. Reports from (he vai ious clties show a very general procreas and a continuinglarjíe distribuí. mi tlirough retall trade. Theproof 1.S clearer ís it nhould be, in the industrial thatt In ths rjrading lield. Contractsprovidlngfor consumpHon of seven million tons of Iroo ore have alreadv been made.