The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-25
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

The outlook for better times is improv-
to the country with n rush, and but few
people believe that the passage of high
protective tariff by Congress will in
i-self effect any change for the better in
business conditions. In the history of
this country it has been found, however,
that long periods of depression are fol-
lowed by healthy reaction and grad.
ual improvement until real prosperity
sets in. The general financial depression
from which the people have been suffer-
ing from some years cannot in the ma
ture of things continue indefinitely, and
there are already signs of an improvement
which may become greater and m ore per-
manent in the course of the next twelve
months.
The crops of the country are good and
the rise in the price of wheat is already
having most encouraging effect upon
the farmers. The reports of Bradstreet
and Dun & Go. on the condition of trade
also show steady Improvement in many
lines. while the stimulating elects of
brighter prospects are proving beneficial
to the country at large. 1t is believed
that the great,rcoal miners strike will be
satisfactorily settled before long, and
that II healthy revival will follow in all
lines of industry connected with the coal
supply.
The great gold finds in the Yukon and
klondyke regions will, in the.opinion of
many who are qualified to judge, also
haze an important influence upon. the
business conditions of the country. Sen
ator Clark, of Wyoming, takes this view
OF the matter. and says If -four or five
millions of dollars have been taken out
of those regions in a few months by II few
persons and under unfa vorable condi
tions. that it is fair to assume, if the re-
ports we hear are we'll founded, that the
gold product there will be equal to Cali
fornia at its best. He thinks it will prob
ably amount to fifty millions year, and
that the money for the most part will 60
into circulation.
The products Of placer mining like
this, he says, are always scattered
through the country, and, therefor after
a year or two, the volume of circulating
money will be considerably increased
every year, with very beneficial effect
upon the business of the country. Be-
sides the increase in the annual output of
| gold Is not confined to this northern re-
gion. About fifteen millions year are
coming from Colorado, and there is
very promising development of gold min
ing in Utah and California. These with
the developments in South Africa and
Australia make the prospects of n very
large increase in the worlds supply of
gold very promising. and that the Uaited
States will be greatly improved in bust
ness conditions is regarded almost as
certainty. AT any rate, there is great
reason TO" encouragement and, if the
people OF this country do not profit by
the situation, it will not be from lack
OF activity and enterprise on their part.
Gully Is, 1895, our store, four dwelling
houses and three barns were washed
away by n food. Soon after the comm IL.
nifty WAS visited by an epidemic of bloody
fiuX. In short time we sold ten dozen
of Chambe r.ain' S Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy and in every case where 1t
was used the results were ali that could
be desired; In fact our physicians ad.
United that it would do more toward
bringing about cure of hux than thoy
conld do."-BUSH 81 KINSI.EY,
Auburn, w. Va, Oct g, 1896 For sale
Nv ii. O. Barnes, "He puts of prescip-