Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-11-04
BRADSTREET'S VERMONT TRADE
REPORT.
RAD
DILLON, GEORGIA

No disturbing features are noted
this week in business conditions in
Vermont. The larger industries are
very active and nearly all of the trade
centers report business on q satisfac-
tory basis. The favorable weather
for outside work has been fully i'm
proved but the clothing rad and
kindred lines affected by radical
changes are waiting for colder wealth
er. Collections in sOme sections are
reported somewhat slow. There is
still a demand for both skilled and
unskilIed labor, granite and other
manufacturers are curtailed IN their
production because of insufficient
help. This condition is the result of
general employment rather than a
decrease in the number of l%aborers,
although it is reported that some cut
ters left Barre earlier in the season in
consequence of inducements held out
to them for employment elsewhere.
Burlington reports business in general
to be satisfactory; jobbers are busy
and the retail trade is of about usual
proportions with manufacturing lines
well employed and collections fair.
Barre manufacturing interests are ex-
ceptionally we'll employed and retail
trade is good though collections re-
ported somewhat slow. St. Johnsbury
reports activity along manufacturing
lines with collections about as usual.
General business in Brattleboro is sat
isfactory. manufacturers doing well,
retail trade active and collections
fair. Bellows Falls trade is reported
good along all lines with collections
very fair and but little unemployed
help of those who wish to work.
Conditions are good at Stowe; lumber
is active while local Improvements
keep labor active and help scarce.
The granite manufacturing business
at Mortified and Waterbury is very
active; in the former enlarged facll-
tiles for carrying on the granite bust
ness have resulted in an increased
demand for cutters difficult to meet.
White River Junction-retail trade is
good and collections fair. Manufac-
turing business ,at Ludlow is active,
retail trade satisfactory and no par
ticular complaint is heard as to col
%lections; building is active just now.
The knitting mills at Bennington are
reasonably busy; the cooler weather
has stimulated this line and prices are
vel! maintained; retail trade is of
usual volume and collections satisfac-
tory. The granite and other manu-
featuring industries at Montpelier are
very active; retail trade is good and
prospects for business are regarded as
very favorable.
With regard to conditions in the
country at large Bradstreet's Journal
saws: 1.-THE first rush of autumn
wholesale trade is over, and attention
is now attracted to the movement Of
staple goods into the channels of con-
sumption. Despite the smaller move
ment of grain, and up to this week,
the lighter movement of cotton, so
heavy is the volume of business
offered the transportation interests
that complaints of a shortage come
from all parts O the country, and this
week Philadelphia on the Atlantic
coast, Cleveland and Chicago on the
lakes, San Francisco and Portland,
Ore, on the Pacific coast and Biz
mingham at the South all report
transportation facilities inadequate
for the business offered in several
lines, notably iron ore and steel, lum-
Der, grain and coal. In the coal trade
the shortage is marked, because the
anthracite tonnage is very heavy, be-
ing estimated at So, 200, 900 or one fifth
larger than a year ago.