Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-29
End Successfully Meeting the
Strongest Competition of the
Largest Cities On All Sidss
OF Us, Which GOss to Show That
It's Nail City Maintains Her
Prestige of Being
amOre the B8st Markets in th9
Country for Merchandise
OF AlI-Kinds.

Current trade articles in the leading
.orrua,S throughout the country take
a.u,:'y in trade, and report that the pres
cat condition is in the main very salts
!-c,ory AMI an impr 'yement upon the last
srring season. Il h. begun TO respond to
ls,t years good crop and, no matter how
c.a,rly the situation. analized, the pros
Iec,S of business for : year to come de-
Ield> almost whollyu. m the condition Of
tie crop now in the ground. The spring
has been backward, and the condition of
winter wheat is reported low in some local
ines but even the gloomiest crop prophets
simjt that the crop may turn out we'll.
Up to the 10th Of this month very little
ra,n had fallen in California and Ore
con. but the rains that have come
siace that time render it certain that
tie wheat crop of the Pacific slope will
exceed that OF lSS2. The.wheat acreagefn
NJ me sofa and Dakota has been largely in
creased. and the crop reports from Texas,
VI ssOuri and Kansas are very favorable.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, after reviewing
the situation, thinks that the crop of 1923
VI. he fully as large as the crop of the pre-
Y.ous year-or 525 OOO, 600 bushels. The
New York World says; the weather thus
far HI, spring has made the crop prospects
most favorable. The acreage planted will
PROT ably be larger this year than ever
l,Io-r, while in Europe only two
U.rs of an average harvest is look
q 60 under the most favorable circum-
sane, by high authorities there. The
Unite! States will, unless all signs fail,
have . ready market for breadstutIs, cotton
aaL ether domestic products for a year to
cone. and this being the case it is not sur
r-.,rug that confident feeling as TO the
ll.u-s exists in business circles Re-
l--r.as 10 an esti mated reduction Of % per
cent IN the crop of winter wheat-an esti-
NATE II March, witch is not now accepted
by any oue-the Boston Herald thinks that
even such a reduction in the winter wheat
crop would be fully compensated by the
increased area sOwn 70 spring wheat in the
srrsn: wheat regions Of the Northwest.
Enough has been quoted to show the
best opinions about the winter wheat crop.
There is no basis for expecting a wheat
crop less than last years. If this view of
the wheat crop is sustained by the
weather, and if in addition the corn and
cotton crops later on promise well, all
the tax about hard times and panics and
similar disasters may as we'll be dismissed;
for a second good crop year means general
prosperity, including of course many
bOoms of a speculative and perhaps ill-ad-
yised nature.
A good authority says the belief that the
growing crops willturn out we'll hasalready
revived business and restored confidence.
This movement will be lasting if the crops
are good, and the business situation will
steadily improve. The railroad earnings
were never larger; the export trade is
heavy, and pending the tariff changes the
imports are light; the crops Of Europe can
Tot we'll be up TO an average on &C
vo.ut of decreased acreage; immigration
f, almost al its maximum, and money is
easy. The capitalists Of Europe are be-
coming uneasy over their own securities
on account Of socialistic movements, ana
@---.erican securities are again sought for.
The volume Of trade, outside OF the iron
and steel Industries, is increasing, and al
tore,lef there a:c no indications OF trouble,
always provided The crop reports continue
to De satisfactory. We have simply to ao-
stain from gloomy predictions that the
facts ID no: warrant, and walnut nature
solves the problem.
The local situation was somewhat dis
turted by prophecies of labor troubles
= a.ch happily have not riPened ye: and
,,ssis,' may not. But Notwithstanding
the c,,,.5 - hich was raised over the light
ues, Of business d., Spects by the croakers'
Tie i've men have been Nor. active than
ever in handling their lines, and tE>s Wv
're rn.oying boom Of no small proper
NgLs IN a mercantile way is shown by trAs
cHeer.ul words of many Of our
.ead,rc merchants, and which THE
bAhCS IACAsAAC IA ASASAAAAA6
Our readers to. That Wheeling oilers just
as advantageous terms, and as large and
Line assor;ments OF goods in all lines, both
70 Retail and wholesale buyers, as the larg-
''' Cities in the West, is a fact which does
o1' merchants very much credit, and which
every citizen IN this State and surrounding
territory should glory in and do all in their
power to conserve and appreciate. When
laIF'otism' and loyalty to ones own
'"| ~ metropolis is general it is
No0nt % result in the enhancement ::st
'e'yipiys interest The habit which
'Vl'e Individuals have of decrying their
oRh c,.y Is \ suicidal one, and ought to be
discouraged. This article, however, is not
-"'saied As 4 sermon, but one to show that
ven ousine, nan ought to be tolerably
vel eased Win the outlook, and to feel
g. NE good times coming are not a myth
The JEWEIRY BUSINESS.