Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-07-04
BRADSTREET S WEEKLY
VERMONT TRADE REPORT,

Reports to Bradstreets for the week in
summarizing trade conditions for the first
half of the present YEAR show several
peculiar conditions affecting trade in gem
eral. AZ compared with the same period
OF year ago. Aside from labor troubles
the manufacturing interests are reason
ably well employed With the granita
manufacturers the volume of business In
the monumental line l. no, as good as 10
WAS for the same period { a year ago.
but in the building line more business Is
on hand and the SHY meuts of stock in
the rough are reported larger. With ths
marble interests the demand IS said to Ia
about uniform. Slate shipments for both
roofing and manufactured stock are re,
ported less than usual but outlook for
the future appears improved.
The building that has been done has
not come up to expectations, although in
certain sections more building work is
IL progress Labor troubles have caused
the abandonment OF some proposed build-
Ing work, Lumber business ard sh!p-
ments for Burlington have been ,ied up
for the same reason. There is. however.
a reasonably good demand and prices are
on par with those of previous years.
General conditions. however. appear en-
courag!ng and affairs. outside Of certaiR
sections. are considered normal
Among the wholesale dealers In differs
ent lines summaries show volume of bus!-
ness compares reasonably Wen with pre-
vious years and outlook - anything APP
pears better. Retail mercl Iuts trade has
not been up to normal for inc past quar-
| ter, although the extra tr-iuesS done N
the first quarter will ma the showirs
| for the first half of the y,.r fairly even.
The merchant, however na~ had tn uss
| clearance sales in order t. mors stocks.
June business in general has been only
| fair.
| In the agricultural districts the farmer
| has commenced cutting one Of the largest
crops of hay that they have had for some,
! time Other crops are late. corn and po-'
| tatoes both show the effects OF continued;
unfavorable weather conditions that have
! obtained during the second quarter oe
the year The crop OF berries has been
large. and Notwithstanding this the price
| obtained has been good
| Collections during the month of May
were SLOW, this slowness ran into the first
| half of June but the past two weeks
have shown an Improvement Failure
| r,port- for tho secod quarter of the year
| include one receivership. one suspension,
! one compromise and u voluntary bank.
ruptcies, a total number of failures of ono.
! less than for the first quarter. OF the Is
voluntary bankruptcies, the total liaoil!-
! ties were Sos st9,7S and assets of SA,9S6 20.
| This was the smallest showing for the
first half OF any year since 1909. The fall
ures for June of this year included ono
receivership, one suspension and thrcs
| voluntary bankruptcies.
The number of fires affecting mercan-
| tile business for June of this year was
the smallest since 1907. For the first half
| of the present year there We're oil fires,
affecting ~ firms with an aggregate dam.
| axe of $Sli,5t;6 While the number of fires
| was less by one than in 1911. eleven moro
| firms were affected and the total damage
| was 1870 greater. The first half of the
| present year showed IS domestic cor
porations chartered with an aggregate
| capital of $S.6lS,ooo the largest asgre-
gate capitalization for the first half oi
any year since 1895