The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-02
BUSINESS BOOM
GAINS VELOCITY
Many Sections of Country
Report Prosperity Is
Staging Comeback
TRADE FRIGHTENING UP
Steel Industry, Basis Of Com
MERGE, Receivers Rapidly
From Long Sick Spell
py JAMES H. KlIGAILE.
l. ~ 3 staff Correspondent

l. ~ p staff clfrcsponion,
CHICAGO. Nov IT, business Is
gradually hcadiur back toward urog-
pcrity a|.rordiug iu l HursD. ot .tr
ditlons in tho central aud middle
woet, The Rocky Mountain region ana
the Pacific coast .oupi.'l today Dos
The International tavs Service.
Optimism haa agoiu uu, 90 tho
front ana in tb, la.i few ily1 .urr,
has been an puuro.ItnIu revival iu
certain iudus'tica. pbl'lHulJrly stool
In yarioua part OF the .ouutry.
The hard winter ahrHl' mag
prove % %buEabou. 10 rrporta received
mny be accepted.
Trndin Gaining strength
LlftIuE OF the railroad strike cloud,
apparently mas au encouraging ~.
foct upon bushes. Ecurr1lIy
Trade mas not TrtDhud lhv boom
stage bv u means. hut % Is be-
coming more stable ana healthy und
the outlook d. promising
O. E Culliuan, genera manager
or The western clrrlrl cplupHHS said
tho announcement pf tup ,isI Tow
days tnlt steel plants la the cast
were beginning 20 sur operations
ON 700 per cont basic, la tu excel
lent indication uf what b. uhotd.
Improvement iu thH ef"ol busi
ness la the forcrHuUtt nf Improve
mont in other industries hu taid
The Illinois stool company re-
ported an iuCrcHs" In orders dur
ing october OF from 10 so - per
cent over the previous month
Armour and company said.
Volume uf business In the Last
month hna Increased. Demand Tor
packing house products Increased
materially while tho Increase IL
very satisfactory, ~ would not bc
proper to say that our business is
improving by leaps and bounds
Rail Ponce n Zig Factor
Joseph u. Noel. PRECEDENT Of the
Chicago Association OF commerce.
said the settlement OF the railroad
strike was an important element IN
stabili2ing conditions,
practically every line Is getting
started agnin," John NJ, Glen, aecrc-
tary of tho Illinois Manufacturers
association said, THE stumbling
book In the path Of prosperity, how
ever. Is high wages for railroad help
which Is holding up freight rates"
Plants in Wisconsin engaged In
the production OF stoves. furnaces
and ~vontilating devices using sheet
steel have had n steady increase In
orders In tho last six months. The
same is true ot tin and enamoled
ware manufacturers. Since Scptom.
Der Is, 5000 men have been given
employment. Louis Keuhn, prcsi
dent OF the Milwaukee corrugatlnP
company, says his company II
flooded with orders and no does not
think tho peak OF tho new Prosperity
has been reached,
raAA.4. NNlu .aVtna q. aaa.sf "a 4.
ture Of agricultural Implements, 70
ports that the number OF unemployed
IN that region has been reduced
from 5000 to 2,b00.
Skilled Work More Plentiful.
While there has heen no Audder
~re-openlng OF manufacturing plants
~ NebraRka in the last sixty days
practically every factory In the state
has boon slowly adding to fits work.
Ing force. Demand for skilled work
men In good In every line, although
there SIN Ia unemployment among
common labor.
In the Rocky Mountain region
however, the return to normaicy II
slow, Pueblo, steel center OF tn,
west and home % the Rockefeller
steel plant, shows little Improvement
There Is no Improvement " husi
ness TO Justify tho resumption 81
full time work" declared Jesse Il
Welborne, president OF the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company, "A Rookie.
fellor concern. Yet there has been
slight increase In building activity IL
Denver. Less men are out of worl
than "A month ago, civic ~organiEa
tons and employment bureaus bring
ing about this botterment OF condl
lions.
Building Boom Ia West.
The close Of tho harvest shaaor
throughout the country Increase,
unemployment slightly.
The far west Is in tho midst OF
building boom and reports from tina
region are quito optimistic. Report
TO the twelfth district federal re
serve bank Tor the states OF Wash
ington, oregon, Arizona, Nevada
Utah and idaho, from 90 represon
tatlve cities for tho past month, sho,
the highest returns ever made I'm tn
district, Permits issued were twent
per cent IN exces OF the same porto
last year. and value l7.5 per con
greater.
John Mclaughlin. labor commits
sioher OF California says that 1900
moro men are employed in buildin
work in tho state to-day than o
November I last year, tho figure
leRpins from 100, 900 to $4,000,
Winter logging will open neN
week throughout the Puget Sount
with the result that lnnumerabl
lumber cutting mills viii speed u
and more men win be at work tina
tor weeks back,