Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-30
VERMONT TRADE
REPORT.
TRADE

Inquiry in Vermont through Brad
streets Burlington representative
reveals the following conditions:
Business is we'll maintained through
out the state. The tens erature has
been decidedly lower but no particu
lar damage from frosts have been re-
ported and the weather continues ia
vorable for late crops. Taken as a
whole the farmer has done we'll this
year: crops in general have been good
and prices rule high. In the manu-
featuring cities labor is we'll employed,
and in some districts scarcity of work
men is felt. In Burlington the manu-
featuring concerns are very busy; the
boot and shoe houses are behind with
orders and the cotton mills are busy.
Manufacturing business here taken as
a whole is perhaps more active than
usual, labor is generally we'll employed
and the distribution of jobbing goods
is we'll maintained. Lumber business
is good and prices are firm; the vari-
Gus business interests connected with
this line are we'll employed. Retail
trade of average volume and collec-
tions fair. General trade is unchanged
in Brattleboro; manufacturing inter-
ests we'll employed, collections fair
with agricultural crops good in this
vicinity. At Bennington the mills are
moderately busy no special activity
reported in this line: conditions of
trade otherwise are favorable and
collections good. Bellows Falls re-
ports general trade to be active; man
ufacturing business is reasonably
active, and collections good: the
weather has been favorable for ma
turing late crops of which corn is good,
while potatoes and apples are light.
In Barre the granite manufacturers
are very busy. Orders are freely re-
ceived and while in some cases mar
gins are small the volume of work
counterbalances the loss. The granite
business is active and prospects con-
sidered good. ST. Adams reports
manufacturing concerns employing
full complement of workmen and to
be working full time; retail trade is
improving, collections fair and crops
are very good except apples and po-
tatoes. The railroad strike is over
and it is reported that more men are
employed than before. Business is
good at st. Johnsbury; the weather
has been favorable for agricultural
interests and there has as yet been no
destructive frosts; manufacturing in
terests are busy, labor is we'll en-
ployed and collections fair.
Bradstreet's Journal summarizing
national conditions says:
"Among the more favorable of the
purely commercial or industrial feat
ures of the week have been the con-
Uinuance of the good demand from
jobbers, the heavy shipments of goods
with which to fill these demands, the
better call for goods at retail, induced
by the arrival of cool, fall weather,
and last, but not least, the settlement
Of the steal strike, which restores at
least 80, 900 men to their work.
strength prevails in the New York
stock market, prices having recovered /
from the decline caused by the late
presidents death. Large advances /
were recorded on last Monday when /
business was resumed, financial inter-
ests here and abroad finding cause
for renewed confidence in the an
nouncement that Mr.. Roosevelt will :
maintain his predecessors policy and !
retain the old cabinet.
For the week business failures in i
against 1872 last week"
B. w, Purcell, Kintersville, Pa, says he suf-