The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
PROSPERITY IS COMING
BENEFICIAL RESULTS OF EIEc.
TON ALREADY APPARENT.
ORDERS FLOOD BUSINESS WORLD
Railroad Construction In Northwest
Starts on a New Era
Of Activity.

Chicago. Special The beneficial re.
suits OF the election are apparent in
the commercial and financial world
I Preparations for the better times
which are confidently expected to fol
low the election OF Taft have begun
In earnest. From every industrial cen
! ter comes news of the overhauling of
/ plants, the installation OF new ma
chinery and hurry-up call for men.
Many big orders for material. which
were being held up on account OF pO-
litical uncertainty. have been placed
and more will be placed without de-
lay. These orders are for material
OF practically every description
building. railroad and farm equipment.
Immediately following the election
thousands of commercial houses start
ed their representatives broadcast over
the country to gather in orders, for
the stocks Of interior merchants have
run down 10 the hand-to-mouth basis
With prosperity assured these merch-
ants are ready 10 buy. The banks. al
so assured OF stable times, are willing
10 advance credits. For every man who
desires work there will be opportuni
ties. The country has set its face TO
the light and is pushing ahead with
oldtime vigor.
Some indications of the quickening
business pulse are shown in Philadel-
phia where the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company follows a $4,000 600
equipment order with an order for
steel passenger cars TO cost 81, $50. 900.
At FIT Wayne, Ind. the Pennsylvania
car shops are running al the fullest
time In their history, employing more
than COO men. The Wabash shops at
tie same place are also taking on adj
ditional men. In Pittsburgh there is
a general resumption OF work in all
factories and shops. Calls are being
sent out for workers of every descrip-
ton to return to work.
Boston reports a general resump-
tion in all the New England mills and
factories. II is said all factories. OF
which there are thousands throughout
New Jersey and the New England
States, soon will be operating full
time and former wage scales will be
restored Immediately.
President Smith OF the St Louis
Business Mems League predicts that
within six months there will arrive the
greatest prosperity in history Fol
lowing the election, manufacturers and
commercial and financial powers made
immediate response and thousands OF
orders poured in upon manufacturers
and jobbers.
Minneapolis says there is unusual
activity in the great employment bur
eaus which place thousands of men for
the railroads, mines and in the gen
eral development of the Northwest.
The manager of one of the largest OF
these concerns said.
There will be great activity in
railroad building for the next four or
FIVE years. We know of companies
which have conducted quiet surveys in
Northwestern states and now they
will 20 ahead with the construction
of new lines and the extension OF old
ones They will need thousands of
men and we must hustle TO fill a part
of the demand"
From every point. notably many in
the South. there comes this one word
explaining the general revival OF bust
ness over the entire country-"Con- |
fdence" This tells the whole story.