The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-21
ATI.ANTA..

Atlanta, 04.s Ju1y zl-In0 ufbt
|balesof. tie 1914 Georgia cotton crop
has just reached this market. The
prizes paid for ito cents pound
of course does not reflect actual
cotton quotations, but bankers here
re- in the continued maintenance
Of high market prices for the Sta
pie I sufe and certain prosperity
for the southern farmer this year.
The crop will really begin to move
In . few weekOpow and . mood OF
money will foy ihto circulation In
this section asa result
Building continseSsat q record
clip here with small homes and
bungalows going up In every sec
ton OF this city. Already reduc-
lions in the rents Of apartments are
being announced with range from
is to 70 Per cent and which Will be
,, effective September. For rent signs
are more numerous than they have
been at any time since before the
war.
Pre-inventory clearance sales are
filling, the retail stores in this sec
ton with customers, while whole
salers and jobbers report the best
business they have experienced in
months. Orders for fall delivery
are arriving in volume and &C
counts are bAing liquidated prompt
ly. Manufacturing plants have not
yet felt the pinch of coal shortage
and executives Of local factories
hope they will be able to avoid cur
tailment from this cause.
ST. LOUIS.
St. Louis, July 21.-Plants are
! beginning to CLOSE in the smaller
towns all through the south and
west as a result of the acute coal
shortage, or more strictly speaking
! the high prices it is necessary to
pay for coal. Towns near the Hi
nois mines have been buying Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Alabama coal
and the big industrial plants in the
! larger cities have supplies only for
| limited periods. Curtailment OF OPP
Grafton 10 expected each day from
now ON until the strike is settled.
/ The meat packing plants of the
Missouri and Mississippi Valleys
, have sufficient coal for four to six
weeks run and the various prod
ucts of these companies are usually
three weeks ahead of the market
demand for meat. The most SER
ious results to be anticipated in
this section therefore are the fall
ing of in employment and the les
SEEMING of buying power for farm
products and merchandise.
Investigation among railroad en-
ployes indicates that the workmen
hope eagerly for an early settle
ment Of the rail strike, believing
that the other crafts will be weak
ened in their positions if those now
out are successful after a long
strike. They believe, however, that
the railway labor board was lax
with the carriers. and severe on the
unions.
DETROIT.
Detroit, July 21.-Detroit's whole
sale district is thriving. A whole
sale tobacconist said today his
! sales for June has been double
those Of June, 1921, and that July
business was Of even greater pro-
portions. Wholesale candy manu-
facturers assert the sales SO far
this month have been three times as
large as for a similar period last
year and have almost equalled the
big periods of 1920. A manufac-
turer of bakers supplies reported
today that his output had been sold
out to the end Of the year with his
plant running at rate Is per cent
In excess of last year.
Many county fairs are to be re-
vived this year after a discontinu.
ance since the war period and this
factor has aided the demand fol
candy and confectionery, especial!
In the upstate section.
! Shirt manufacturers catering t.
the ade-to-order trade report tina
where as their sales last year aver
aged from $52.75 to $50 customer
this season these are running be
. tween SIS and $120 each, with /.
growing tendency toward highe,
priced materials. Shirt maker.
here are having difficulty in gettia,
goods fast enough to fill their de
, mands.
Bushes sin the automobile plants
has been interrupted by the annua
inventory shutdown but productio.
; nevertheless will compared favor
ably with June.