Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-25
VERMONT TRADE REPORT.
Bradstreet Tells of Conditions Prevailing
During Last Week.

Reports the following: The actlVe
demand for labor throughout the state
increases with the approach of cold
weather, and the necessity of completing
contracts before the frost sets in. Man
ufacturers throughout the state report
good general conditions with favorable
prospects. Business in Burlington is
good, manufacturing lines are busy
labor well employed, and the retail trade
is satisfactory; the lumber business
continues good, prices firm and outlook
favorable with collections fair; there is
good distribution of groceries, hard
ware, tobacco and other staples. In
Rutland there Is unusual activity, owing
largely to the increased demand Tor
goods manufactured there, to the active
marble business and to the work being
done to secure large water power TINS
company is building dam of masonry
some 500 feet long, 81 feet high, and
when completed it is expected that
| lake will be formed % miles long and
mile wide. This will be used for
storage and with the flow of the stream
will afford constant and large power, ana
it is understood that electric power Will
be generated for general purposes and
also for running street cars. A large
force of workmen is being employed and
the work is being vigorously prosecuted
that it may be completed before winter.
The slate business is good at Poultney
and Fair Haven; the demand for slate
and its products has been so active that
it is difficult to accumulate any stock,
I'd In, of tho activity In
this line the retail trade in merchandise
is stimulated and general business is
very satisfactory. Bellows Falls reports
manufacturing interests well employed
the paper and creamery supply business
being active and collections good.
Manufacturing business is good at
BrattlPboro, retail trade Is active in gen
eral. although the season is not advanced
enough for much increased demand in
clothing and dry goods; collections fairly
good. White River junction reports
satisfactory business in manufacturing
lines, labor well employed, and help
scarce. Retail trade is fully up to the
average and collections about as usual,
crops good, except potatoes which are
light. In general, business conditions
are reported as excellent at Hyde Park
with collections good. st. Johnsbury
reports activity in manufacturing lines ;
retail trade also is good, although the
weather has not been sufficiently cold for
brisk fall trade; collections and general
conditions satisfactory. The lumber
stock in the vicinity of Island Pond is
largely exhausted and there will be no
new stock of consequence until snow
comes; retail trade is good, collections
fair. The business In connection with
the railroads throughout the state is said
, to be increasing as Is usual at this time
of the year.
Among the notable features brought
p. out in trade dispatches to Bradstreet's
this week are the reports of stimulated
retail trade, due to cooler settled weather
and advices of continued activity in al
= leading industrial lines, notably iron anG
steel, shoes and leather, coal, lumber
!, iewelry and cotton and wooden goods
: The shipment of products of these indus
tries and of groceries to consuming sec
tons, continue heavy, and are accom-
panied by reports of delays due to the
scarcity of cars. Another one of those
slight upward swings in prices of staples
so numerous of late, has also occurred
by which the general level of cereals
O raw cotton, dairy products and lake cop
per has been raised. Clearings have beer
expanded because of an extension Of
interest in the security markets, but also
because of continued good collections
which in turn have induced rather more
ease in money rates at leading markets
Failures for the week number l9S, al
7 against 1873 last week, and 223 in thi
week year ago.