Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-08-26
BRADSTREETS VERMONT
REPORT.
TRADE

Bradstreet's Vermont representa-
tive reports the following:
Pleasant weather throughout the
state has been the rule for the past
week and the agricultural situation
continues favorable. Occasional show
ers have furnished sufficient rain
fall, pasturage is good and the
creamery interest, which is very i'm
portant, is yielding a large income.
There is in the aggregate a large
amount of lumber produced IN the
state, the product not being confined
to any locality; conditions for the
lumber industry have been very ia
vorable for the past nine months,
prices rule high and demand continues
active. Labor and other conditions
which naturally affect business are
normal and business in general is
good. The Old Home Week which
has become a State institution has
been celebrated very generally, but
the celebration has partaken more of
social than a business character.
side Of a few localities was not
generally observed, unless by the
closing of banks. There is no ma
terial change reported in business
circles in Burlington. Jobbers are
doing a good business. Retail bust
ness is good. Lumber conditions,
firm in price and is in considerable
demand. Rutland reports manufac-
turing business to be we'll and profita-
bly, employed, working full time.
Marble concerns are crowded with
orders. Retail trade fair and collec-
tions fully up to the average. Crops
in fine condition. The manufacturers
Of knit goods at Bennington are not
very active, practically the same
conditions exist as were reported last
week. Retail trade fair. Business
at Brattleboro is reasonably active
taking into consideration that it is
quiet season OF the year Business
continues good at Montpelier, where
during the past week the celebration
OF Old Home Week was made a
special feature. Both St. Johnsbury
and Barre report favorable business
conditions. Labor is we'll employed
ly the same report is received from
Richford, retail trade is good, col
lectiOns fair. At Bethel a large
tannerY has shut down temporarily,
and the lack of employment which
this occasions is reflected by the retail
trade, otherwise conditions are as
usual. State business at Fair Haven
continues about the same as it has
been Of late. Collection good.
Brddstreet's Journal says:
''An Improvement alike in tone and
in demand is noted in trade circles
this week, and fall trade may be said
to have opened actively. While the
most optimistic reports come from the
northwest, several large markers in
the corn belt send more cheerful re-
ports, based partially upon still fur
Their Improvement in crop conditions,
but likewise the result or the growth
of a feeling that while the yields of
most crops will be smaller than last
year the prices paid for the same
will be higher and the purchasing
power of the agricultural community
as whole will be little impaired.
"The industrial situation, if not
better as regards the steel strike, is
certainly no worse, although there is
talk OF strike of printcloth mill en-
ployees at Fall River because Of re-
duction Of wages. The failure of the
western mem bers of the Amalgamated
Association generally to break their
contracts and to strike has put sue
cess for the men absolutely out Of the
question"
If you think of putting up new Steel Cell
ing write to NJ. J. Caldbeck g. Son, St. Johns
bury, VT, for their prices and blue prints of
the same, they can save you money.