The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-01

tised thhroughout the whole United States but indirectly it's industry is reflected in every city where nechan-l icaI facilities are found to aid the work done in factories here
 The entire country may at this time be considered as experiencing pros perity and unusual growth.
 This is the opinion found by investi- gators, travelling through in the in ferests of Hincks Brothers & Go, who have just returned to this city after a country wide tour of many thous- fands of miles, which included nearly every large city in the west
 The trip extended from Cincinnati and Chicago and radiated to Salt Lake City on the southern leg with Port land and Tacoma in the northwest in ic1uded the cities of Great Falls. Mont, Seattle. Wash. Boise. Ida, Denver and St. Louis among the larger places visited
 While made primarily that existing conditions in certain properties widely handled by Hincks Brothers & Co., might be studied at close range for the benefit of customers the trip was incidentally extended for a more gen. eraI Knowledge Of general conditions throughout the United States and has served to show that many conditions in the east are repeated i'm the west.
 Though physically the west is an agricultural and mining country, whatever industry it has is said to have shown marked impetus from the eastern boom in munitions
 Everywhere supplies were seen in transit and Pacific coast cities admit that following a period of depression for the past eight years they are rap idly recovering and are keenly alive to the return of a prosperous era which is now plainly visible.
 rA- Portland and San Francisco where the boom of export shipments would additionally enhance the general hourishing condition were it not that the great lack of merchant ships is Keenly felt. The great cry there is: Give us ships"
 As a result carloads Of goods are on sidings with the wheels getting rusty while in some cities the author Aties have dumped the goods into open yards that railway transportation may be continued unhampered. Miles of wire and automobiles for the Asia tic trade were seen exposed to the ele- ments while the Coast waits for ships.
 From an agricultural and mining standpoint the west today is supreme. The recent exclusion of free" sugar as we'll as the demand created by the European war is said to have created large demands for American beet su- gar. which has brought additional welfare to a large section of the west devoted to raising and refining this ytaple- This is particularly true of Utah. Colorado. California and Ore gon which are now visited by tremen- dous prosperity
 West of the Mississippi as well as in the east, Bridgeport is noted as rnu- an publications which not only de- scribed but illustrated the vast amount of n1unition making here. Or ders indirectly placed in other cities have added materially to the reputa- ton of the Park City.
 In Colorado. where an election within a few weeks has overthrow commission form of government and replaced the established form, inter. est has been, keen upon that topic and the result in business and hnan- cial circles is eagerly looked for.
 The aggressiveness of the west il civic irnprovem ents is said to be 1T contrast to some of the New Eng. land cities. While the west has al ways had the benefit of eastern ex pertinent, it is thought by some fl nanciers who have studied the situa, ton that New England must see th' west to realie the importance of ac cepting certain municipal projects ana advanced ideas. The width of streets the manner of conducting traffic ant office buildings in cities of re1ativel. particularly the greater number O office buildings in cities of reiativel. equal size are subjects of great inter est to the eastern visitor.
 It is reported that remarkable fore Bight in building some of the wester7 cities has been shown and that man innovations in civic warfare are to ef noted in the far west which mus eventually be copied in the east
 As result of the trip, the countr is declared by representatives o Hfncks Brothers & Co. to be mos prosperous in the middle and extren west. while in the northwest a, lon period of depression has been over come with bright future prospects Bridgeport as an industrial cente ecltpses any city of the country am vies with other cities in Connection for future rank as the capital of man ufacture