Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-09-27
VERMONT TRADE REPORT.
Bradstreet Tells of Conditions Prevailing
During Last Week.

Inquiry In Vermont through Brad
streets Burlington representative re-
veals the following conditions: Business
is well maintained throughout the state.
The temperature has been decidedly
lower, but no particular damage from
frosts have been reported and the wealth
or continues favorable 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
manufacturing cities labor is still well
employed and in some districts scarcity
of workmen is felt. In Burlington the
manufacturing concerns are very busy
the boot and shoe houses are behind
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 en-
ployed and the distribution of jobbing
goods Is well maintained. Lumber bust
ness is good and prices are firm; the var
ious business interests connected with
this line are well employed. Retail trade
of average volume and collections fair.
General trade is unchanged in Brattle-
boro manufacturing interests well en-
ployed, collections fair with agricultural
crops good in this vicinity. At Benning-
ton the mills are moderately busy, no
special activity reported in this line :;
conditions of trade otherwise are favora-
BILE and collections good. Bellows Falls
reports general trade to be active; man
ufacturing business is reasonably active,
and collections goods; the weather has
been favorable for maturing late crops
of which corn is good while potatoes and
apples are light. In Barre the granite
manufacturers are very busy. Orders
are freely received, and while in some
cases margins are small the volume of
work counterbalances the loss. The
granite business is active in neighboring
towns. One pronounced feature of the
business condition here Is a scarcity of
workmen. at Montpelier business is
active and prospects considered good.
st. Adams reports manufacturing con-
Germs 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 potatoes. The railroad strike is over
and it is reported that more men are en-
ployed 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 interests are busy,
labor is well employed and collections
fair.
Bradstreet's journal. summarizing con-
dtions, says "Among the more favor
able of the purely commercial or indus
trial features of the week have been the
continuance of the good demand from
iobbers, 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,
put not least, the settlement of the steel
strike, which restores at least So 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 bust
ness was resumed, financial interests
here and abroad finding cause for re-
newed confidence in the announcement
that Mr.. Roosevelt will maintain his
predecessors policy and retain the old
cabinet. For the week business failures
in the United States number l5S, as
against 1S2 last week.