Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-10
cHocK FULL OF ORDERS.
New England Cloth Mills Have All
They Can Do.


.acl .ening in the amount of dealing
due to the excess and activity that mas
characterized them for the last three
or four weeks according to a New
Bedford special to the Christian
Science Monitor. Mills are rapidly
coming to the point where they can
not possibly take any more orders, no
latter how fancy the prices that they
are offered. Already many of them
are sold out nearly to Thanksgiving
'or all of their product that can pos
',ly be turned out under the most
favorable conditions. They do not
feel justified in contracting for deliv-
cries further ahead than this because
f the uncertainty as to what situa-
tions might arise in the interval.
Buyers apparently have not yet had
their ardor cooled to any great degree
despite the difficulty in finding mills
that will consider further business.
Prices are daily mounting higher and
already in some styles of goods the
government maximums of last fall
ave been left far in the rear. A rap
DIV rising market in raw cotton has
served to help along the increase In
the price of the manufactured arti-
cles, as have the wage increases that
have been granted the textile opera
tives, beginning yesterday, but the
advance in prices has already more
than offset these factors, and buyers
have not yet reached their limit.
To Discourage Speculation.
What will happen when the gray
goods that are being sold now come
to be finished and prepared for retail
markets Is a matter for some misgiv-
ing on the part of many of the mill
men. Retail prices are expected to
20 to levels that have never been
reached since the days Of the Civil
war, and 1t remains to be seen whether
the consumers will be able to absorb
the normal quantity Of goods at such
prices. Some curtailment in the
amount Of consumption Is expected,
but the producing capacity of the mills
has been materially reduced also by
the shortening Of the regular working
schedules, and the more optimistic of
The manufacturers maintain that this
will more than Offset the shrinkage in
the volume of consumption.
Special precautions are being taken
to discourage the buying Of excessive
quantities of cloth and yarn for spccu-
lative purposes. Mill men are looking
askance at buyers who attempt to
place orders in larger volume than
usual and will not take them unless a
satisfactory assurance is given that
they are to be used in legitimate busi-
ness channels and not resold In the
gray. In this way it is hoped to re-
duce the amount of goods that come
on the market for sale in the gray at
second hand, and 1t is from such Sec
ond-hand sales that manufacturers be-
lieve the greatest menance of a re-
action comes.
Fine, combed yarn goods were almost
at q standstill so far as actual dealing
goes. though the demand for all styles
was as strong and insistent as ever.
New Bedford mills have been shut
down for two weeks owing to strike
of the mill engineers and firemen, and
they have therefore refused to quote
on any goods whatever. Fine goods
mills in other places have become sold
ahead as far as they care to go and
have virtually retired from the market
until they got more nearly caught up
with the business already on their
books. Prices have risen at least two
cents yard on almost all styles Of
goods, but have not been sufficient to
tempt the mills to abandon their posi-
tion.
Activity in Print Cloth.
Print cloth markets have had an
other week of activity with price ad-
vances of as much as cent a yard on
staple constructions. Demand for both
wide and narrow goods has been ap-
parently Unsuitable and nearly all the
mills have now taken orders to carry
them we'll into October which is as far
ahead as they will go at present Sa-
teens and twills have been especially
in demand, but hardly any were avail
able because of the large amount Of
this type Of goods that was contracted
for previously. The capacity of the
mills equipped to make them has been
cached and further advance in prices,
though it has not reached five cents a
yard in excess Of last falls maximum,
holds no interest for the manufac-
turers.
Yarn markets are exceedingly stiff
Ind buyers have found great difficulty
in getting quotations and more still
in getting the deliveries they want.
Weaving yarns are especially hard to
buy. particularly piled warp yarns.
Many of the cloth mills which manu-
facture their own yarn are finding it
impossible for their spinning depart
ments to keep up with their looms and
have been forced to go into the mar
ket and buy yarn. Some of them have
looms stopped despite the high cloth
prices, because they cannot get the
yarn fast enough to keep them in
operation. Practically none of the cloth
mills is now in any position to sell
yarn and the capacity of the yarn
mills is not equal to the present day
demand. The shutdown in New Bed
ford has still further reduced the avail
able sources Of supply and many of
.he southern mills a"e affected also by
labor troubles.
NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE.