The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-20
a General improvement in Bust.
ness Situation Noted
Throughout the Country by the
Commercial Agencies.
THE OUTLOOK is GOOD
For a Heavy Increase in Trade
Along All Lines
During the Latter Half OF the
Current Year.

Rev York, June 20.-Dispatches to
Dun's Review indicate that the wide
spread area of seasonable weather mas
brought out a normal volume of retail
trade, in many cases necessitatfng sup
Elementary orders from wholesale and
1obbing houses and there IL a slight
increase in the active manufacturing
capacity despite the usual midsummer
curtailment in some departments. Bos-
ton reports that the cotton industry Is
outeter, some mills announcing that
short time will be resumed II orders 90
not increase. Textile machinery Is pc
ing operated more freely at Phiiadei-
phia, raw wool is fairly active, there Is
q better demand for lumber and In
oufries are numerous in the Iron ana
steel industry. Mercantile conditions
at Pfttsburg show little improvement
and collections continue strong. Wnole-
sale trade Is seasonably quiet at Bal
tirnore. Atlanta reports that the move
nent of merchandise increases Slowly
and collections are satisfactory. new
Orleans reports a slight Improvement
An country orders for some lines and
collections are fair. but floods In the
iowlands give little prospect OF replant-
ing
at any time since October, orders IN
creasing and collections are quite sat
tsfactory.
Floods in the Wholesale and manufac-
turing sections of Kansas City, cause
practical cessation of business, rev ran
roads accepting freight, but there was
sufficient warning to prevent mucn
damage to merchandise, while the nood
is now rapidly receding and resump-
ton of business VIII be rapid. TRACE,
transportation and manufacturing are
steadily improving at Chicago, and ex-
tensive preparations are under way ior
Increased activity the last half of the
year. Retail trade is fair In C1ncin-
nati. but the movement OF dry goods Is
mainly on orders from travelling sales
men Tor reaSsortments.
Improvement continues In wholesale
lines at Minneapolis, better feeling
prevails in 1obbing circles and coiieo-
lions are fair. Retail trade at ST.
and iobbers report fair sorting orders.
Bradstreet's.
Bradstreet says:
Aside from the continuance OF
better tone, as regards the future and
some farther enlargement of industrial
operations, notably in textile lines,
there is little new to report as to
trade. Business as a whole mas peen
quiet. There Is general agreement
that retailers stocks are not large. but
filing in orders continue to be fire.
quent rather than heavy. Fail buying
has been a trifie more assured at east
ern and central western centers, but
conservatism and disposition to
await crop and political Developments
guard against anything like free buy
ing. Collections are backward as a
whole.
One Of the best circumstanced lines
seems to be leather, though demand
for shoes is inactive. Lumber Is bet
ter at the west and yellow pine is
higher. Iron and steel demand shows
no enlargement to speak of, despite
recent cuts in finished lines. Building
Is less active than a year ago and the
unemployed in this line are very nu
merous-
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