The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-08-22
Idle Cars Fast Decreasing
Building Going on
at Great Rate and Gen
y: \
). eral Orders Increasing
TRAFFIC MANAGERS AND
GENERAL BUSINESS INTER-
ESTS BECOMING VERY OPTI-
MIsTIO OVER THE OUTLOOK.

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Trafflc man
ayers and general business interests
are becoming more and more Optimis-
tic concerning outlook. The traffic
of all the big western roads is now
increasing daily and the prospect for
a, heavy tonnage this fall was never
brighter All roads are making act
i've preparations for a big rush OF
grain to market and equipment is
being distributed to the big advanta-
geous points. The activity among in
dustrial concerns reflects the general
feeling of confidence. Bankers aud
others are predicting the heaviest
volume of general business that has
been known in a number of years.
Railroads operating eastward from
Chicago and st. Louis show further
improvement in their tonnage of
merchandise, grain and other COM
modities, and traffic at this time is
heavier than for months. Equip
ment which has been idle for long
time is being rapidly put into active
service and earnings are increasing
satisfactorily. There is good move
ment of iron and steel which is now
an important factor in the traffic
situation and IAN increasing tonnage
in new grain from, Ohio and Indiana
points. The steady gain in the gem
eral merchandise shipments are
gratifying to eastern freight and
traffic managers. Southern and south
eastern lines handled an increasing
volume of tonnage, which exceeded
! recent weeks by large percentage.
Almost without exception the mills
in. this vicinity are booked ahead
several months and some of them
well into the next year The resump-
tion of buying by the railroads and
new buying of building material of
various kinds is giving all classes of
business men a great deal or en-
couragement. and in most lines there
is brighter prospect of substantial
business expansion than since the
panic In most of the large centers
of the west, building is going on at
an enormous rate. Material orders
for new structures of immense size
are reported almost daily. From now
on the railroads will have plenty of
this kind of tonnage as orders are
for the earliest possible delivery, al
though many of the mills are now
unable to promise delivery until after
the first of the coming year and
some much later.
AT this center there were not as
many buyers as during the preceding
week, but their purchases were larger
and far ahead of last year. In most
lines sales of road men were larg
er than for both of the usual COM
parative periods. The usual falling
off in the demand for summer goods
was feature of the dry goods trade,
but the inquiry for spring goods has
started earlier than expected. The
better qualities of fall and winter
goods were in active request and the
attendance of distant buyers was
fairly large. Cotton goods generally
met with heavy inquiry and silks,
fancy dress goods and ready-to- wear
garments were taken freely.
The prospect of such immense
crops will add greatly to the buying
power of the west, and according to
the best authorities We are advancing
to a period when the demand for
manufactured products will exceed
the output. The farmers are now in
a position to buy the most expensive
and. up-to-date implements and it is
as certain as anything can be that
they will be in the market for
luxuries of every description before
the end of the year.