Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29

progress in which also Is helped along
by holiday buying. These factors In
turn have brought recorders to jobbers
from interior merchants. and over a
wide area such purveyors as well as
wholesale dealers are doing more than
we'll.
Activity in the larger lines springs
from good house trade, mail orders and
sales by road agents. Things to eat
and to wear are those most wanted,
and various kinds Of textiles are in
short supply. America is reaching out
for new foreign markets in which to
sell the products of peace times, but
in passing it is to be noted that While
wars needs started things moving out
of the rut of depression, foreign de-
mand no longer overshad ows domestic
requirements, altho it is to be con-
ceded that our own consumers have
anything but bargain prices prevail.
In this connection it is significant that
leading railway has withdrawn an
order for cars becauce of high prices.
Lumber continues to reflect i'm
provement, export as well as domestic
trade being prominent, and even points,
as in the far northwest, which while
a ago were strongly conservative say
that the outlook is more favorable
than it has been for years, ard south
ern timber lands are changing hands
freely Coal mines are doing more.
four milling is active, the furniture in
dustry is busy. house furnishings are
in excellent call, cigar manufacturers
are crowded with orders, textile mills
turning out staples are at capacity
iron ore shipments are of record pro-
portions. metal mining continues ac-
tive, the shoe trade is good, builders
hardware is in smart demand produc-
ton of iron and steel is at maximum;
ship yards, dull at this time last year,
are busily engaged: automobile plants
are a, full capacity, wooden mills are
well employed at some centers dis
tilleries are working hard on war or
ders: car builders. practically Idle
year ago, are now busy: and, Of course,
munition plants are more than busy.
Finally, business for spring is de-
veioping under favorable auspices, anu
while high prices make for some con-
Germ, fear of scarcity OF goods tends
to control future buying.
To Bradstreet's various points report
as follows:
Chicago reports trade and industry
gaining. steel prices up ali around.
domestic steel business developing
rapidly and competing with export de-
mand; railroads are buying freely ,
with their shops all running full time
and car builders active where a year ;
ago most OF them were idle. 81. Louis
reports the lumber trade seeking com
parfson for present activity in the husn !
times OF 1906; mail order trade II com
modities is large and construed as in |
dicating actuel needs ard not spec
uation as the basis for present actlV-
ity. and large fur-dyeing industry !
tas been one of new departures in 1
the work Of substituting American for !;
toreifn enterprise in this line. CieEe-
land reports Unprecedented activity il !
iron ore. :ron and steel. Milwaukee !
reports trade exceeding other years /
and no unemployed labor in evidence
Duluth reports record year in iron Z
ore shipments Nebraska points report /
agricultural labor scarce. Minneapolis I
reports flour mills all busy; Grand
Rapids. the same as 10 furniture fac I
tories Detroit reports manufacturing +
and wholesale trade conditions the pest {
for years Helena reports Montana ;
farm mortgages IN demand, and Knox
vile that coal mines of southwest Viz Z
ginia are running full time Birming-
ham reports that wholesale dealers ]
hace all the trade they can handle and
a munitions factory and an electric
furnace are among the new industries
started in that district. Savannah re-
ports enlarged export trade IN cotton. :
lumber and naval stores, and that city
and others report large sales OF south
ern timber lands. induced by the better
demand and higher prices for lumber
New Orleans jobbers report the best
business in several years; Atlanta
that wholesale trade IN millinery
EQUALS that of 1918. Dallas reports
flour mills running night and day, and
Mobile that lumber shipments are
large 10 all parts Of the world. ana
that local manufacturers are finding
active demand for their production in
the West Indies and South America.