The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-23
PROSPERITY RISES
IN BIG CROPS WAKE
Reports from All Over the Coun.
try Give Proof of a Steady
Improvement.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 23.-With a big
winter wheat crop already garnered, a
record -making spring wheat yield in the
Northwestern States and provinces
practically assured, a corn. production
which, barring early ~frosts, promises to
run close to the three billion bushel
mark, the agricultural States of the
West are furnishing, according to finan-
ciers and manufacturers, the basis for
a new and long lease On prosperity,
BY far the most important Western
announcements in the steel trade dur
ing last week were those hat the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe had
virtually completed the placing of or
ders for 1870. 900 tons of rails for 1910 de-
livery, and that the Chicago and North
western had placed contracts for equip
ment aggregating a total value of SILL
600, 900. The Atchison's rail order is
largely for the completion of Texas
mileage, work on which was stopped
when the panic began in 1907.
The equipment orders announced by
the Chicago and Northwestern road in
clude 125 locomotives and nearly 5000
cars. OF the latter lbs are to be all steel
passenger coaches. $500 box cars, $500
gondolas, 900 refrigerators, 500 ore cars
and 800 stock cars. Delivery of a large
part of these cars Is to be made this
year.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-The settle
ment of the tariff, business rapidly as
Stunning its normal condition, manufac
turers turning out more. goods and
merchants stocking their depleted
shelves will cause. according to the rep
r~esentatives of the coastwise passenger
and freight steamship lines, a volume
of business shortly that will inaugurate
an era of prosperity greater h fol
years previous. The managers of steam
ship lines are preparing now for the
banner year of the last ten years.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aus. 23.-Missour
and Illinois farmers are preparing tc
harvest the banner crops of many
years, particularly of early corn and
wheat. The safety and the abundance
of the late corn are in doubt because
Of the recent heat wave and drought
Rain is badly 7eeded to insure it.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Aug. %
Threshing of wheat from the shocl
began this week in the Northwest a
many machines are now in the fields
The results on all farms where thresh
ing is on indicate that h presen
crop is a better one than the excellen
crop of 1901.
PITTSBURG, Pa. Aug. 23.-With III
rapid rate at which material is beinl
specified on contracts for finished stee
products many contracts will come III
for renewal well before the enc of thu
year, instead of lasting through TIN
year, as was expected, and some stee
manufacturers definitely predict a gen
eral buying movement in Novembel
similar to tina which reached it
height in May.
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 23.-Despite the
hot weather of the last two weeks ant
the damage caused to the corn there,
by, Nebraska will, from present pros
poets, raise the largest crop, of corr
this year that has ever been produced
in the State. With a 0,000, 900 bushe
wheat crop just being threshed ant
other crops proportionately large, there
is every indication that Nebraska viii
nave more money this winter than cal
be used out here.