The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-16
CROPS AND PRICES ARE GOOD
AND AGRICULTURISTs AND NER-
CHANTS ARE THEREFORE, HAPPY.
Indiana Getting "a Good Slice of the
PrOsperity-BOOm at Hunting
burg, Muncie and EIwOod.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

continue to flow in on the headquarters of
the Republican national committee in this
city The following extracts are from a
Few of the additional letters received over
those of last weeks report:
From the editor Of the Herald Anderson
Ind: The American wire-nan works was
idle year ago. 1t employs 800 men at
good wages. Since election it has been
running constantly until a month ago. when
1t was necessary to make repairs. hum
dred men have been working night and
day on the repairs. The Arcade file works
was idle all last summer. After election
1t started and has been run steadily since
employing 300 hands. The Seton Manufac-
turing Company, makers of packing and
paper butter dishes, have doubled their
plant this year, employing 100 people, The
Victor Glass Company are doubling their
plant. In the fan they will increase wages
10 per cent. Tin plate employees have been
increased IL per cent in wages. We have
twenty-five factories, big and little. The
same story maintains for ALL Prosperity
has caught the town under the hip. Every
thing running full time, men getting better
paid, none but that can find work"
f. M. Kimmell, McCook Neb says:
This is almost exclusively an agricultural
country, no manufactures. We depend
largely upon good crops and prices and
have them this year. Everybody is conse-
quently happy"
jenkins & Nichols, Esthervllle, Ia: "Our
city Is not a manufacturing one. However
there are evidences of returning prosperity
ON every hand. Prices of farm products
are advancing; there is greater activity on
the railroads, which gives employment to
more men; banks ana loan agents have
plenty OF money to loan on easy terms
ana rae. a feeling rec of confidence is noticeable
w. ID. Page, Fort Wayne, Ind, says:
Wholesale merchants all agree that there
! is great Improvement in trade There
nave been more agricultural implements
| sold this summer in Allen county than in
TOUR years. Manufacturing is increasing
| ana there Is q feeling of renewed confidence
mere. The great Pennsylvania shops at this
| city have received large orders for new
| equipment and are running full time"
From viii Curtis keWanee, In.: 1--WE
| can see signs on all sides here of returning
| prosperity. We have a big iron mill here,
| employing about 1,500 men. Last fall they
| were running about one-third of the men,
| now they run full force, with more being
| added each week"
H. Jennings, Bartletsville I. T., says:
| Not in five or six years has the prospect
| been as bright as at present. We have an
| abundant harvest and the feeling of Sc
| curity has induced business men among US
| to branch out into business that for some
| years past they have failed to touch. The
| prospect for further development of rail-
| roads which have been lying dormant are
| bright and they will doubtless be built.
| This Will develop our resources to a won
| derful extent and we look for a period of
| progress that will aStoniSh the people of
| the East. There is no doubt in the minds
| OF all rlght-thinking men that the benefit
| OF chang6 OF government is already being
| felt in every department of trade and com
| merce, the natural croakers notwithstand-
| ing.
| Richardson & Co., Harrisburg Ill: Last
| year our crops failed but this season so far
| is very favorable and as a result the money
| which coming wheat &
| being used freely in the payment of debts
and people are taking new heart"
s. e. Bishop, Elijay, Ga: Business inn
| proves here. Numerous new buildings are
| going up. There is work for all who want
%etn,loynllGGnti % d n4ch I'M llIlpI4Eeu 4 coilultloh.
| Crop outlook good; Very fine grain crop
| just harvested and fine corn crop ahead.
| Large apple crop coming in"
G. Q. Painter, De Land Fla, says: There
| is considerable encouragement here in the
| orange and pineapple business with the new
| tariff Thousands of dollars are invested
| in this State by Northern men and now
| that they "a chance to get something
back for money invested they are willing to
| put in more money. This gives work to the
| home people and an are benefited
| Charles f. Olin, New Britain Conn, says:
| More men are employed and at longer
| hours than last year. The Ingraham Clock
| Company of Bristol, which has been closed
| for several months, has started up on full
| time and hands. 1t is the general anticpa-
| tion here that prosperity is near at hand
c. W. Getchell, San Andreas, Cal, says:
very ag9 TgoTa pronounced Cd s Prior to mas the 'Gi i'm
| auguration Of the silver craze
capital from England, France Germany, as
| well as Colorado, Montana and other States
was coming this way, seeking gold mines,
| but as soon as the silver slogan rent the air
and until after election there was an inn
| mediate stagnation. Yet no sooner was the
| result of the election known than every
| thing changed. New mines were
| opened and old ones, abandoned for twenty
! years We're suddenly rehabilitated. Our
| foundry for mining machinery was taxed to
| it's uttermost, and now the sound of the
| steam whistle and the dropping of stamps
! re-echOes from many gulches. OF course all
/ this gives employment to many miners and
| creates a market for the farmers products
| his wood timber and lumber, and gives
| employment to numberless woodchoppers,
| loggers, sawyers and teamsters. And all
| this activity must be attributed to the cleo
| ton"
p. Fl. Knowlton, Newton, Kan, says:
Business conditions were never better here
! than they are now. The A. L. q 5. +. Rail-
| road is building large repair shops which
| will employ 200 men additional to the pres
| ent force The city is building a new sys-
| tenn of water works and large business and
| residence properties are being erected. The
| Newton Milling and Elevator Company is
| rebuilding it's mills, increasing their ca
| pacity 100 barrels day. a foundry, steam
| laundry, produce company and more than
a dozen new mercantile establishments are
now opening for business employing many
men. SO far as central Kansas is con-
cerned, the hard times are a thing of the
| past.
c. H Bolinger &, Co. Huntsville, Ark:
This is strictly a farming community.
| Cattle are bringing 25 per cent. more than
| last year wool is about 70 per cent. better.
Farmers selling wool last year for cents
| now sell wool from the same sheep for IA
| cents. Recent rains have helped the crops"
Guy Beatty, Lake Charles, La, says:
| 1.-THE new rice tariff has put new life In this
industry and thousands of new people viii
be engaged in this line within the next four
wears More buildings are in progress than
for two years back. The Southern Pacific
is building WharVeS and warehouses and
preparing to run a line of steamers from
this port an evidence that they in
creased business in lumber and rice. Two
leading sawmill plants are rebuilding with
more than double former capacity. A wood
working plant is adding greatly TO its ca
pacity by building. The Lake Charles Mill
ing Company, the largest independent rice
mill in the world, has made recent additions
to its capacity.
Hoffman Bros. Oskaloosa, Ia, say:
There has been more building here since
Jan l. 1897. than for three years previous
to that time. Brick street paving has been
resumed and 100 men have thus been put
to work at good wages. The brick are
made here. and the factory Is now running
full time. The big industry here Is coal
mining. and there are fully 1900 miners at