The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-15
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD CON-
TRIBUTES TO THE WEALTH OF
THE UNITED STATES.
PROSPERITY PREVAILS WITH MER.
CHANT, FARMER AND MANU-
FAcTURER.- FARMERS ARE
PROSPEROUS.
Reports From All Over the West and
South Indicate Good Times.-Rail-
roads Can't Handle the Freight.
anks Show Marked Increase
in Deposits.

The shipments of gold from all over
the world TO the United States continue
and are likely to continue up TO February
or possibly March, says ''rhe Observer"
IN the Cincinnati Enquirer. Australia,
Japan, England, France and Germany
have all contributed during the pres
ent week to our stock of the yellow
metal.
The reports Of our exports and imports
for The month OF November show tire.
meDdous increase in the exports and rea-
sonable reductions IN the imports, the net
results being for the month very large
increase in the balance of trade in our
favor. This is of the most gratifying
nature, as it gives our business men a
great credit balance with foreign coun.
tries and enables them to draw for the
gold whenever it is needed in the bust
ness of this country.
1t may DE regarded that this country
now has millions in foreign countries
subject to chequc by our merchants and
manufacturers, which will keep US in
funds for quite long period.
There is not the slightest indication
Of any decrease in expenditures of the
leading railways for improvements, ex.
tensions and bcttermepbs. Orders for
cars and engines are being given and
scheduled for placing that will even ex-
coed in amount the record year Of 1908
and guarantee to the machine shops and
the car works continuous work for 1904.
Throughout every week OF 1903 there
were shown steady increase upon the
earnings of 1902 and the past six weeks,
although compared with same weeks in
1902, when the increases over tile 1901
period were very great, yet these weeks
of 1903 beat all records for earnings.
Reports from all parts OF the South
and OF the West are not only good, but
can trnthfully be elassel as the best ever
received from those sections. The plant
ers and farmers have more cash at their
command today than at any other period
of our nations history, and this next
year will see them frecr from debt and
more independent financially than ever
before.
The banks all through these sections
report marked increase in deposits, great
or case in currency and in collections
The agricultural communities, over.
whclmed BY debts as they we're from
1892 to 1898, are by this time almost
free from their burdens, thanks to the
bountifu crops and the good prices OBJ.
tanned for the products OF labor and OF
land. Every year now they will be able
to purchase more, and the comforts of
the people composing them will be great.
er. More commodious houses, better fur
nished rooms, better fences, better farm
implements, greater acreage planted and
a larger saving every year puts these
communities upon a sounder basis iinan
cially, renders their people happier and
improves the business Of the country
in a hundred different ways.
Now, the settler in the West arrives
within few miles of his land by rail
way. Uncle Sam will furnish him with
weekly mail and the telephone and tele,
graph wires are within easy reach in Al.
most every county OF the Union.
4 postal card to St. Louis, Chicago Or
New York brings by freight or express
the merchandise or supplies that he and
his family may require, and within five
or ten years he is in the amidst Of
thriving community, with the value Of
everything he produces fixed by daily
market reports, and the value Of biz
acres steadily growing greater as the
years progress.