Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-09-25
BRADSTREETS VERMONT RE.
PORT.

Inquiry In Vermont through Brad.
streets Burlington representative re-
seAls the Following conditions:
Business is we'll maintained throug.
hout the state. The temperature has
been decidedly lower but no particu-
lar damage from frosts have been re.
ported and the weather continues fav.
orable for late crops. Taken as q
whole the farmer has done we'll this
year; crops In general have been good
and prices rule high. In the manu-.
facLuriug cities labor is still well EN-.
ployed, and In some districts scarcity
OF workmen is felt. In Burlington
the manufacturing concerns are very
busy; the boot and shoe houses are be.
hind with orders and the cotton mills
are busy. Manufacturing business
here taken as 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 various business interests
connected with this line are we'll en-
ployed. Retail trade Of average vol.
ume and collections fair. General
trade is unchanged in Brattleboro;
manufacturing interests we'll employ.
ed, collection fair with agricultural
crops good in this vicinity. At Ben
nington the mills are moderately busy
no special activity repo ted In this
line; conditions Of trade otherwise are
favorable and collections good; the
weather has been favorable for matur-
ing late crops OF which corn is good
while potatoes and apples are light.
In Barre the granite manufac! urerS
are very busy. Orders are freely re-
ceived and while in some cases mar
gins are small the volume Of work
counteroalances the loss. The granite
business is active and prospects con-
sidered good. St. Albans reports
manufacturing concerns employing
full compliment of workmen and to
be working full time: retail trade is
improving; collections fair and crops
are very good except apples aud po'a-
toes. The railroad strike is over and
it is reported that more men are EN-.
ployed than before. Business is good
at ST. Johnshury; the weather has
been favorable for agricultural inter-
ests and thsre has as yet been no de.
structive froSts; manufacturing inter-
ests are busy, labor is we'll employed
and collections fair
Bradstreet's Journal, summarizing
national conditions says: "Among
the more favorable of the purely com
Dercial or Industrial features OF the
VIZ elk have been the continuance 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 ar
rival OF cool fall weather, and last,
but not least, the settlement of the
steel strike, which restores 30,
men to their work.
Strength prevails in the New York
stock market, prices having recovered
from the decline caused by the lite
Presidents death Large advances
were recorded last Monday when bust
ness was resumed, financial interests
here and abroad finding cause for re.
newed confidence IN the announce.
ment that Mr. Roosevelt will mains
tain his pred cessor's policy and re-
tain the old cabinet.
For the week business failures in
the o. S. lumber 1853, as against 1872
last week.