Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-10
BRADSTREET'S VERMONT WEEKLY
TRADE REPORT.

Bradstreets Vermont representative at
burlington reports the following condi-
tiOn
Business throughout the State continues
good as indicated by careful inouir,. ard
prospects for the next few months are en-
couraging. The weather has been good tbo
past week and nearly all lines of business
are well employed. Among the stauls
pFoductS of granite marble SLATE and
lumber the activity noticed i'm previous
reports continues The creamery Interests
winch perhaps interest "A larger number
oi people than any other industry ar, in
a satisfactory condition. There is no par
ucular labor disturbance reported and tha
u' nand for help is still felt business, in
burlington is very good the retail trade
Is active and the merchants are doing VII.
w nile Inc distribution of goods at whole
sale Is active and no complaint is heard
as To collections, the lumber business is
satisfactory prices are firm and demand
Is good, while in some lines stocks of
lumber on hand are not large: the mills
are BUSY and taken as a whole the bust
ness situation is favorable. In ST. Johns
bury the principal industry is busy and
the retail trade is fair; it is reported that
conditions are promising for business and
that there is nothing in sight to mar fu-
turc prospects. Business continues active
at Bellows Falls the paper mills and 9TH
or manufacturing industries are busy re-
with good prospects for the near future.
Bennington reports manufacturing BUSH
ness t. be fair and the same condition an
plies to retail trade: business in Poultn.v
Is very good and prospects are favorable,
Inc retail trade here depends largely up-
on the condition. of the slate market and
consequently at present Is satisfactory:
collections are good and while agricultural
crops are not So large they have BEEN
some years prices are firm. Business Is
very active at Fare; the granite sheds
are busy and need more workmen, eularg-
cd faclIuoS are constantly being made, and
proSp"' Is are regarded as very encourage
Ing. In Montpelier business In all lines
appt Irs to be good: the manufacturing
plants and the granite manufacturers are
busy and healthy condition exists in
business circles generally. The machine
and other shops at Springfield are busy.
retail trade good and collections fair.
Manufacturers are We'll employed at Brat
tleboru, retail trade and collections fair;
the fruit crop is poor but other crops
good. Business at Hardwick unchanged
from previous reports with the granite
fairly active. Manufac-
turing business is good at Rutland. retail
trade and collections as usual and crops
fairly good, A lumber mill has been start
ed at Newport, which has been idle for
some time; other manufacturing concerns
well employed and collections reported
good.
Rradstreets Journal summing up condi-
tionS from its special teleeran,s rep0rt
hat while speculative markets, except for
cotton, show redCtionary tendencies gen
Pral distributiVo trade and industry ara
active, and a heavy volume of business is
going forward. All obtainable measures Of
prCduC ton and movement for the nine
months of the year testify to this. Bank
hearings are heavily in excess of previous
years and railway earnings continue very
favorable.
The cereals are very generally weak and
over in all markets.
The feature of the week in cotton was
he publication ON Thursday of the gov
'rnment crop report, showing the lowest
condition, with one exception, in eighteen
ears.
Failures and liabilities of failing traders
n September we're TIE smallest for any
Month this year. Very much the same re-
port can be made as regards the third
quarter of the year, except that liabilities
T. that period slightly exceeded those Of
he first quarter, Otherwise. however, the
hcwing made for the third quarter is a
Iuite favorable one, though in this, as in
'thcr periods of this year increases alike
n the number and in the liabilities OF fail
ng traders are shown over last year and
Ner 1922,