Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-09
BRADSTREET'S VERMONT TRADE
REPORT.
TRADE

streets Burlington representative
reveals the following conditions:
The favorable features reported
throughout the state for the past few
weeks in business and industrial cir
cles continue and prospects are good.
Workmen are we'll employed as rule.
The potato crop is small but prices
are high and there there will not be
large net loss to farmers. The apple
crop will also be small. Otherwise
agricultural interests are favorable
and the good weather for the past
week has been beneficial for late crops
Lumber, granite, marble and slate in
terests are very active and the cream
cries continue TO do we'll.
Business in nearly all departments
is good at Burlington: manufacture
interests are well employed, retail
trade is good, and there is the u sual
distribution in jobbing way. The
stock OF coal for the fall and winter
trade has been received to a large
extent and dealers IN other heavy
supplies are securing goods in consid-
cradle amounts, availing themselves
of the low transportation rates which
open navigation by lake and canal at
fords Manufacturing business at
Bellows Falls is good, retail trade ac
tive and collections fair. The yield
of potatoes and apples from this Sec
ton will be small. There has been no
particular change in manufacturing
or retail business at Bennington
which continues quiet, collections
fairly good. At Brattleboro a large
plant has shut down for weeks va
cation; otherwise conditions remain
practically as reported last week with
retail trade far. Pronounced activity
in manufacturing lines is the rule at
Rutland; the MAJ ole works are run
ming to full capacity, and it is stated
that seldom if ever before, has this
line of business been so prosperous.
Other lines of manufacture are ais
fully employed; retail trade and col
lections remain fair, while crops bid
fair to yield an average harvest. The
same is true at st. Johnsbury and the
leading anufacturing concern there
is unusually active, with retail trade
good and collections fair. At White
River junction business in both man
ufacturing and retail lines is good;
collections as usual.
In reviewing the situation through
out the country, Bradstreet's Journal
says:
4 further Improvement in corn crop
advices, confidence in the early end
ing OF the steel strike, a further ad-
vance i'll cotton-due, however 20
crop deterioration as much as 20 the
better tone Of dry goods trade advices
and last but rot least, the advent of
cooler weather, are unitedly respon
sible for still further enlargement OF
general trade distribution at nearly
all markets ana ? perceptibly better
and more cheerful tone of business
generally. Specially good reports
come from such cenJers as Chicago,
which reports very heavy business
in dry goods, clothing and shoes; from
St. Louis which advises OF unusual ac-
tivity among j0bber5 and the dry
goods trade in August beyond eXpec-
tatioD; from Kansas City which re-
ports that jobbers have all they can
do 10 handle business offering, and
from Omaha, which reports August
trade larger than last year.
AT the east the features are the I
heavy demand for wool at firm prices |
at New York, Philadelphia and Boston,
and the expansion in dry goods de-
mand at those same cities.
Bank clearIngs aggregate $1,74O, /
G57, 754 for the week, a gain of per
cent. over last week of 81 per cent.
over this week year ago and of 2O.4 |
per cent. over 1899.
Business failures for the week num-
Der 1873, against ISL last week, 165 in |
this week a year ago.
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