The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-07-16
BUSINESS ON UPTURN..
Nations Trade in Some Cases Sur
passes Normal.

PNooCo sOA 11d4.
Careful analysis of commercial. in
dustrial and agricultural conditions
made by representatives of the Chicago
Record-Herald throughout the United
States showed that business activity
in all lines is steadily returning to nor
NAL and has in some cases exceeded
it. Crops are unusually large and the
number of unemployed men and of
empty railroad cars show marked de-
creases.
One of Uncle Sans most reliable
business barometers the Chicago post
Office receipts, registered an exception
ally reassuring indication Saturday
that the tide of business throughout
the country has taken a sharp upturn.
Statistics on the postal receipts of the
country were compiled in New York
and made public by Postmaster Ed
ward Nj. Morgan of the eastern me-
tropolis. There the business pulse was
shown to be quickening by the fact
that the receipts at the New York Of
flee for June OF this year were S21,-
961.2S higher than in June, 1907. Fig
ures We're forwarded from fifty of the
largest offices to Postmaster Morgan,
and of this number thirty-three made
showing of increases during the
month of June, 1908, over the receipts
of June, 1907. The aggregate receipts
of these fifty officessreached the large
total of $7,016,160. a gain of SCI .6S3
over the business of the same Offices
in June, 1907.
In Chicago fully 10000 railroad men
have gone back TO work in the last six
months. Half of the men the packers
laid off last winter are at work again.
The idle cars in the Chicago district
have been reduced one-half since the
high number reached in May. Illinois
Will have a winter wheat crop of 49,
100000 bushels, which is a little less
than last year. The oats crop will be
125,OO0,000 bushels, Which is 100000
bushels more than last year. The corn
crop condition and acreage suggests a
crop of 325,00,0G0 bushels, about the
same as last year
General conditions seem promising I'm
Wisconsin, where the big manufacture
ing institutions report an increase of
business, actual and in inquiries ].
ID. Knapp, of Milwaukee, president of
the National Car Service Association,
says that by Nov. l there will be a
car shortage.
With all factories and shops in Oma-
ha and its vicinity running full time,
with assurance of another year of
bountiful crops in Nebraska and sur
rounding states, the industrial outlook
in that city is most promising In
Kansas wheat destroyers have been
active, but the yield of corn will be
the heaviest in the States history.
There is a heavy demand for unskilled
labor
Secretary George A. Wells, of the
Iowa Grain Dealers Association, in
annual estimate made public at Des
MOines, shows crops in Iowa TO be
slightly above normal, with prospects
for the future favorable
st. Louis reports conditions in the
wholesale and retail mercantile lines
as fast resuming normal and keeping
freight business moving fairly well.
st. Louis reports conditions in the
wholesale and retail mercantile lines
as fast resuming normal and keeping
freight business moving fairly well.
At indianapolis there are probably
$1,000 to $1,000 men still unemployed,
but conditions are improving. Facto-
ries generally are putting more men
TO work.
Adyices from Detroit say that busi-
ness conditions in Michigan, though not
yet normal, are showing a steady i'm
provement and are much better than
three or four months ago. Bumper
crops are reported from both grain and
fruit regions.
In Ohio crops are uniformly good
and prices on farm products are the
best in years. Every trunk line rail
road entering Cincinnati reports a
steady increase in freight business.
Investigation made at Pittsburg
showed that a gradual Improvement
has set in in all lines in western Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and eastern
Ohio, the district having financial and
commercial relations with that city as
the center. This is evidenced by the
scarcity of men, more especially in the
coke and coal operations. While the
mills are operating from 80 to 60 per
cent capacity, more men are being put
to work every day. A sane estimate
of the number of men at work in Ale
gheny County in, the mills and fur
lnaces is placed at $4,000, while In the
mining and coking districts not man
need be idle. The railroads have taken
on squirt within the last thirty days.
At the Baldwin locomotive works in
Philadelphia 1000 men have been TAX
ON baclr In tho 1oct fbraa he