Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-30
TINE BUSINESS FIELD.

Uplifting factors continue to assert
themselves in trade and industrial cir
Giles last week but at the same time
there is a degree of uneyenness in par
ticular sections and certain industries
that deprives the situation of uniform
ity.
However. optimism as to the future
seems una bateo: our international po-
i!tical relations, apparently grave early
in the week appear to have improved;
house trade at various centers has
been increased by thep resence Of Wis
tting buyers; some sections report
larger road orders; mail order trade
goes on increasing: the southern stu
alton is brighter; money everywhere is
plentiful at low rates; collections are
somewhat easier; bank clearings excel
those of 1913 and 1912, while of course,
dwarf:ug those of 1914; railway pas
senger traffic is heavy; the stock mar
ket, weak early in the week, rallied
later on; foreign orders for manufac-
tured war supplies continue of large
proportions; higher prices prevail for
iron and steel; premiums rule on some
finished articles for early delivery;
mills are falling behind on shipments;
copper has emerged from it's recent
pressedf is in better shape: skilled
help is scarcer; sales forces, reduced
directly after the outbreak of the war.
are again being increa sed, and the in
finence of larger payrolls is seen in the
paying up of cid debts, rents and the
like.
On the other hand, buyers have not
entirely divorced themselves from con-
servatism; the labor situation tends to
reflect in sporadic strikes the influence
of com etit:vc bidding for help; retail
trade, tho coed in some sections, is not
altogether Favorable, wet, cool weather
in the wess having checked distrbu-
ton; interior trade in the northwest is
marking time because just now far
mers are tee busy to buy; rates for
foreign money continue TO decline;
puacity of dyestuffs curtails operations
in some textile lines; railway freight
traffic IS lighter than last years; the
wheat crop movement from the south
west has been held back by wet
weather at threshing; the anomaly of
spring wheat coming on the market
before the bulk of the winter crop gets
under way may be witnessed, and this
seasons exports Of American wheat
show decrease of As per cent from the
two months of last year.
Sprias heat harvesting was prac-
tically finished last week and the frosts
in the Dakotas did little damage, while
in Canada lowering of grade is the
only appreciable result The spring
wheat crop is record one. both in the
northwest and in Canada and with
good weather in the north spring
wheat and winter wheat will move to-
gether. a condition never before re-
corded.
Wet weather is still complained of
at hindering the threshing and move
nent Of winter wheat. The proportion
threshed was never so small, and in
jury to quality is considerable.
If killing frosts come before Oct.
there will be great deal Of soft corn
Corn in the southwest has turned out
better than earlier expected, but in
Iowa, Illinois and in the northwest the
c-cr .s He-!. backward The south will
have a record crop. and will buy less
than ever before. A year ago dry
weather in the west necessitated much
feeding of corn, but this year, with
pastures and roughage crops SO good,
little will be thus used.