Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-03-22
PROMISE OF PROSPERITY
A GRATIFYING BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Beginning Of a Good Season-lncreaied
Sales With Small profts-Manu-
factories Hardly Able to
Fil All 0rters-CrOps
Full Of Promise.
N-W TOrk Tin

New YOrf Times.
The condition OF the business interest:
Of the country, as compared with the
outlook a Year ago II this time gives
promise OF 4 profitable season and the
beginning OF the return OF national
prosperity. This assurance Of 4 general
and apparently lasting revival OF busi-
Ness i obtained from reports OF the
actual condition Of the trades, manu-
i4ctures, and other industries in
fourteen States, and from the
business centers in those States.
From Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New Jersey and New York, in the
East, o. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri. in the West: from Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan, in the North,
% kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi
and Louisiana. in the south, correspond
eutS Jt the IiHgs have sought the views
Ot prominent men IN every branch OF in
iu,Jry. and Of those who have compiled
the statistics Oi trade and have also pur-
sued their own independent lines OF IN
ve>JigltiOu. The results, carefully ar
ranged. are given in the following dis
patches bv mail and telegraph % the
Times. The unanimity Of expression H.
% the favorable outlook i the more
trustworthy BECAUSE each inquirer Vas
pursuing hi investigation entirely IN
biased and independent OF any other
There are few branches II trade that
io not share in the revival generally rr-
ported. and even IN these the activity :
confined % I department ot the indus
try, rather than general, and the feeling
= Cheerful. rather than depressed. The
resumption OF specie payments AMI the
repeal Of the National Bankruptcy Law
have created = teeiIngot confidence over
which hangs merely the shallow OF q
lear pi Congressional rInkeriny OF tinaI-
clal questions or unwIse state le:gis.a-
ton. The hard times have swept the
weaker concerns out OF existence. Cap
ltai ! >eel liny profitable investment.
Wholesale dealers generally report IN
increase IN the bulk II their sales, rang
IN: from IL 10 20 per cent, although ~
.ow prices - com pared with the business
oi previous years The small stocks which
retail dealers have bought during the
past year have become exhausted. and
these merchants are buying more LJer-
ally AMI oiten upon shorter credit OF iJr
caSn. Collections are more easily male
than during any year since the panic.
The southern trade still shows the II
let IL the low prices Ot cotton aU5
-G-ar. Dr-P.tea somewhat Improbable
crop q these cwo Lrra, staples. planters
are feeling encouraged. The yellow
fever epidemic apparently l-,Iy-d
rather than injured the trade ot the
p.dre~ which sIlirrH'i from - - 'V'''''-~
IN tie - :.'cttve .um5erinE Ne,l'"" aH4
Tne beginning "' WORK oy IA'tl'erS 1''.'
builders have increase; ., lue ''F'-'A'''''
- money ana ',....1.'l''' ran, -
nlii'tNFlI- Interests III '"S t' ca
and West ar rep"rtr' H. genera.
-uI~>u.Is The p'--.r"n ahi .raIie'
mJnu'lrtGrers ,t'li com pam >'hr"lAl,
AMI 'rnd'r" WAnita'ttr.r- Arr r"H'E ID"
beginning 2" arru>tDm themselves %
hex r"ua.tl'H ~ AI'l'T'' tuTse IT. s'''
EXCEPTIONS. F."urinS NILS N man!
r.,es nave been running az winter.
!Ee pr'ir'rtorS "t thTSe are '''e'e'' u!
i large export ,.einAhd; WIN All e'I'''
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