The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-06
Circulation Double That Of Any
Other South Mississippi Paper
ALL LINES OF BUSINESS ACTIVE.

No better evidence of returning
prosperity is needed than the rapid
decrease in the number of idle freight
cars. At the beginning of the cal
endar year the number of idle freight
cars stood at 332,513, and the report
for September Is shows that the rail-
roads had but 6S,502. Before the pres
ent month has run it's course the
chances are that the railroads will
not have single idle car, condi-
ton that they have not experienced
in two whole years. The truth is, the
country fears today a car shortage
much more than car surplus. This
great change plainly means that activ-
ity in general business Is steadily in
creasing.
Nor Is this all the evidence that
Is at hand. Railroad managers are
long sighted. They look ahead to
see what they must meet, and to-
day they are placing orders for rails
and other equipment to be delivered
next year. The Pennsylvania railroad
placed last week an order for 100000
tons of rails, and other railroads are
beginning to contract for supplies.
This is one reason why the immense
iron and steel output today is read
lily absorbed. There would, indeed
be a runaway market in the iron and
steel industry were the output less
than it is. That output is exceed.
ing all records.
In this crop-moving season money
may become dearer, but dearer money
is but another sign of business activ-
ity. All men are becoming hopeful.
All are anticipating a long season of
prosperity, and every man is acting
up to his belief in the outlook-Birm-
ingham Age-Herald.
The time to strike is when the iron
Is hot. The time to make hay is
while the sun shines. The time to
buy in on rising market. The lime
to get ready to ride on the crest of
this great wave of prosperity which is
coming to sweep over this country, is
NOW.
thousands, tens of thousands Of
people have been waiting for times to
get better, for business to get settled,
for the wheels of commerce to begin
to roll again, before making invest
ments, before hazarding their money.
before moving anywhere. Now that
the wheels have begun to roll, specu-
lators, investors, home-seekers will
soon begin to get aboard Good times
have come; better times are coming;
flush times are on the way; an I'M
precedented era of prosperity will
visit this country for the next eight
or ten years; then everybody will get
overloaded, the business of the coun-
try will be over-cropped; big con-
Germs and little ones, individuals and
corporations will find they "have bit
off more than they can chew" and
business will slow down a little until
everybody can take an invoice and
balance up their books.
That's the way the world goes. |
But for the next eight or ten years, |
longer perhaps, business will boom.
and people viii not be afraid to move |
about and invest; and NOW is the
time to make plans, to organize. to
get ready to get on top of the Pros
perity wave.
This Is an advertising age. Special
sts have their private wires and their
secret codes. But the people look
70 the newspapers fol- general in
ormation. The local merchant who
Ices not advertise will slowly but
'urely run down at the heels. His
more progressive neighbor will take
'is business away from him. The !;