Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-07-23
BUSINESS ON UpruRN.
Nations Tide in Some Cases Sur
Hsses Normal


Careful afllysis of conr,oro,., IN
uustrlal az agricultural conditions
maue Dy representatives of the Chicago
hecoru-Eert throughout the United
States sho'Id that business activity
in all lines steadilv returnino n nor
MAJ anu IF IN some cases exceeded
It. crops re unusually large and the
number of unemployed men and of
empty railrad cars show marked de-
creaSes.
One Oh tncle Sans most reliable
business baDmeters, the Chicago post
once recelps, registered an exception
any feassl1ng indication Saturday
that the tlie OF business throughout
the counlfylhas taken a sharp upturn.
STATISTICS of the postal receipts of the
country wde compiled in New York
and made public by Postmaster Ed
ward NJ Morgan Of the eastern me-
tropolls. Tfere the business pulse was
shown to quickening by the fact
that the relelpts at the New York of
ice for Ju1e OF this year were S21,-
961.2S EighF than in June, 1907. Fig
ures were f,rwarded from fifty of the
largest offid,s to Postmaster Morgan,
and of this humber thirty-three made
showing of increases during the
month Of Jme, 1908, over the receipts
of June 1917. The aggregate receipts
of these fifty offices reached the large
total OF $7p16,1G0, a gain of SCI, 6S3
over tie Business of the same offices
in Jun 1897
In Chicago fully 10000 railroad men
have gone lack to work in the last six
months. Hllf of the men the packers
laid of last winter are at work again.
The idh cirs in the Chicago district
have been reduced one-half since the
high number reached in May. Illinois
will haze a winter wheat crop of 40
100000 bushels, which is a little less
than last year. The oats crop will be
125,000t00 bushels, which is 100000
bushels.mofe than last year The corn
crop coalition and acreage suggestsxa
crop of 100000 bushels, about. the
same as last year.
Generl conditions seem promising in
Wisconsin, where the big manufacture
ing institutions report an increase of
business, actual and in inquiries. J.
d. Klalp, of Milwaukee, president of
the National Car Service Association,
says tEt by Nov. l there will be a
car shotage.
Withall factories and shops in Oma-
ha and its vicinity running full time,
with assurance of another year Of
bountifnl 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 he.viest in the States history
There a heavy demand for unskilled
labor.
Secretary George A. Wells, of the
Iowa train 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. Iouis reports conditions in the
wholesale and retail mercantile lines
as fast reSuming normal and keeping
freight business moving fairly well.
st. IDuis 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
10000 to $4,000 men still unemployed,
but conditions are improving. Facto-
ries generally are putting more men
to work.
Advites from Detroit say that bust
ness coalitions in Michigan, though not
yet normal, are showing a steady i'm
provenent and are much better than
three or four months ago. Bumper
crops aie 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
sylvani, West Virginia and eastern
Ohio, the district having financial and
commercial relations with that city as
the eerter. This is evidenced by the
scarcity of men, more especially in the
coke and coal operations While the
mills are operating from 30 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 Allie
gheny County in the mills and fur
naces is placed at $4,000, while in the
mining and coking districts not a man
need be idle. The railroads have taken
on a squirt within the last thirty days.
At the Baldwin locomotive works in
Philadelphia 1000 men have been tax
en- back in the last three weeks.
Norfolk and Southern Receivership.
The Federal Court at Norfolk, Va, has
placed the Norfolk and Southern railway
in the hands of receivers upon the appli.
cation of the Trust Company of America,
the railroad asserting. The road recently
has holIpht in number of brapoh linas