Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-10-14
BRADST2GET'S VERMONT TRADE
REPORT.
TRADE

Brad5treetS Vermont representa-
tive at Burlington reports the follow
ing conditions:
Business throughout the state con-
tinues good as indicated by careful
inquiry and prospects for the next
few months are encouraging. The
weather has been good the past week
and nearly all lines of business are
we'll employed. Among the staple
products Of granite, marble, slate and
lumber the activity noticed in pre-
vious reports continues. The cream
cry interests which perhaps interest
larger number of people than any
other industry, are in satisfactory
condition. There is no particular
labor disturbance reported and the
demand for help is still felt. Business
in Burlington is very good; the retail
trade is active and the mere hants are
doing we'll, while the distribution of
goods at wholesale is active and 10
complaint is heard as to collections;
the lumber business is satisfactory
prices are firm and demand is good,
while in some lines, stocks of lumber
on hand are not large; the mills are
busy and taken as whole the BUSH
ness situation is favorable. In st.
Johnsbury the principal industry is
busy and the retail trade is fair; it is
reported that conditions are promis-
ing for business and that there is
nothing in sight to mar future pros
poets. Business continues active at
Bellows Falls; the paper mills and
other manufacturing industries are
busy, retail trade is good and collec-
tions very fair with good prospects
for the near future. Bennington re-
ports manufacturing business to be
fair ard the same condition applies to
retail trade: the hay and corn crops
are large, potatoes and fruit light.
The slate business in Poultney.i is very
good and prospects are favorable.
The retail. trade here depends largely
upon the condition of the slate market
and consequently at present is salts
factory; collections are good and
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large as they have been some years
prices are firm. Business is very
active at Barre; the granite sheds are
busy and need more workmen, en-
larged facilities are constantly being
made, and prospects are regarded as
very encouraging. In Montpelier
business in all lines appears to be good;
the manufacturing plants and the
granite manufacturers are busy and
healthy condition exists in business
circles generally. The machine and
other shops at Springfield are busy,
retail trade good and collections fair.
Manufacturers are we'll employed at
Brattleboro, retail trade and collec-
tions fair; the fruit crop is poor but
other crops good. Business at Hard
wick unchanged from previous reports
with the granite manufacturers fairly
active. Manufacturing business is
good at Rutland, retail trade and COL
lections as usual and crops fairly good.
A lumber mill has been started at
Newport, which had been idle for
some time; other manufacturing con-
Germs we'll employed and collections
reported good.
Bradstreet's Journal summing up
conditions from it's special kilograms
kets, except for cotton, show reaction
airy tendencies, general distributive
trade and industry are active, and
heavy volume of business is going
forward. All obtainable measure of
production and movement for the
nine months of the year testify to this.
Bank clearings are heavily in excess
of previous years and railway earn
ings continue very favorable.
The cereals are very generally weak
and lower in all markets. The feature
of the week in cotton was the publ
cation on Thursday of the government
crop report, showing the lowest con-
dition, with one exception, in eighteen
years.
Failures and liabilities of falling
traders in September were the small
est for any month this year. Very
much the same report can be made as
regards the third quarter of the year,
except that liabilities in that period
slightly exceeded those of the first
quarter. Otherwise, however, the
showing made for the third quarter is
quite favorable one, though in this,
as in other periods of this year, in
creases alike in the number and in the
liabilities of failing traders ars shown
over last year and over 1899.
Force OF Habit.
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