The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-12
STILL THEY COME.

Reports continue to come in of inn
provement in business. They are not
confined to a few particular branches
of trade and manufactures. The adj
vancement appears to be general and
not confined to any particular section
of the country. The statistics gathered
by Bradstreets show that within two
or three months the wages of a mil
lion industrial workers have been in
creased, on an average of 10 per cent.
For the month of June alone the fol-
lowing advances in wages are given
by that authority:
Cleveland, Ohio, steel mills, 500 en-
ployees, 10 per cent; Fair Haven,
Conn.,, rolling mills, $50 employees, 5
per cent; Lewiston, Me-, bleachery, 500
employees, 10 per cent; Bridgeton, N.
j., iron works. 500 men, 10 per cent;
Chicago, Ills, steel mills, 1000 men,
10 per cent; Tonawanda, n. Y, iron
works; Birmingham. Ala, iron and
steel mills, 5000 men; Phoenixville, Pa,
iron works. 1000 men; Stamford, Conn.
cotton mills, 500 hands, 10 per cent;
South Chicago, ILL.,, steel mill employ
ees. 500, Is per cent; Harrisburg. Pa,
iron works, 10 per cent; Philadelphia,
Pa, tool works, 500 men, 10 per cetn. !;
Cleveland, Ohio. 800 men, 10 per cent;
| Wilmington, Del, iron works, 700 men,
| 10 per cent; Pottstown, Pa, iron works,
300 men, u per cent; Duncanville, Pa,
iron works. 500 men, % per cent.
In reference to exports Of American
manufactures, Kansas city paper
says:
American goods have taken such a
/ ctTnno hold he Tho CHI oY-Iyo nc.
that the British merchants attempted
to have heavy tax placed on yam
kee drummers.' The scheme failed
however, and the boys from this
side of the Atlantic will still have an
opportunity to pad their expense ac-
count without having to make for
taxes" one of the items. American
goods will win, tax or no tax.
OF course, it was not to be expected
that the business boom commencing
in the East would reach the far West
as quickly as the news of the improve
ment. But when business and trade and
manufactures are good there we are
sure to feel the effect. Utah is not yet
a great manufacturing district. But
such manufactures as we have have
improved and prospects are good for
| Sllll IuTIQer advancement.
The endeavors of certain persons and
papers to belittle the business and in
dustrial boom will fail. They have tried
to make it appear that it only affected
the iron and steel trade, few mills
and factories. and that it was more
spasmodic and apparent than per-
manent and real. But the proofs fur
nished by the press of both parties
are too numerous and too powerful
for those prevaricators to overcome.
On this subject the Seattle Post In
| telligencer says, referring to the fact
that 1.-The upward movement in bust
ness is taking place all over the coun-
try from the lakes to the gulf"
Bank clearances, unmistakable re-
Elections of business activity. are on
the increase. Returns, carefully col
lected, indicate that from New York
to San Francisco within the last eight
weeks there has been an increase in
| business of at least SO per cent, and
an advance Of wages of not less than
10 per cent. Two weeks ago the max
| imum of business in New York City
for the week reached $4,000, 900, some
thing unprecedented within the last
I
sale houses in the jobbing centers de-
clare that business is not only better,
but that its volume, so far as they are
concerned, is far ahead of anything re-
corded for years.
Were the improvement confined to
one line of trade or restricted to GER
tain localities, there might be reasons
for doubling that the business revival
would be general. Happily, the restor-
alton of confidence is widespread. The
iron mills are in full blast and crowded
with orders. Birmingham, Ala, feels
the improvement as we'll as Pennsyl-
vania, and furnishes proof of this in
the fact that while her bank clear
ances have increased 127 per cent she
is now employing more men than at
any time during the past five years.
Kansas City expects $4,000, 900 of build
ing improvements this year. Detroit
at least $4,000, 900. The Globe Iron
Works of Chicago and Cleveland
chronicle a marked increase in the
shipbuilding industry. and believe the
advance will continue. The leather
trade of Boston is active, with boots
and shoes almost booming. Chauncey
NJ. Depew, returned from Europe, re-
ports foreigners eager to invest in our
securities provided our currency diff
! ficultieS are settled.