The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-07
CHICAGO.

merchants from the middle west
have descended on Chicago in the
last three days seeking textile goods
among the big jobbing houses.
I Clearance sales have been adver-
tised for this week and even the
radio has been used to spread the
news far and wide, but jobbers
were hardly prepared for the mag
nitude of the response. Similar
sales had been held earlier in the
spring and while they produced
considerable business, it was as
nothing compared with the buying
I of the last two days. The most en-
| couraging feature of this business
I has been that the out of town mer-
chants seem to have abandoned
their former hand TO mouth policy
and have begun to place orders
right and left to fill up their empty
shelves
Conservative jobbers declare
these are the most successful sales
of the kind they have ever seen.
There Mas been little shopping
around and no quibbling about
prices. Merchants have come into
the market knowing what they
wanted and the price they are will
ing to pay and have bought prompt
ly where the price was right. The
biggest movement has been in do
mestics and piece goods, but gar
ment houses have sold large guam
titles of goods, particularly wash
dresses. Department stores and re-
tailers have been almost as active
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weather may have Influenced this
but prosperity is surely in the air
in the middle west and general op-
timism is growing, encouraged by
favorable crop reports, lessening of
unemployment and improvement in
industry.
NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, June THE larger
lumbe mills of this section are run
ming double time and their output
is sold well into July Other mills
are Oyerhauling their machinery
with view to increasing their ca
pacity and expect to be running
double time as soon as this pre-
liminary work is completed and
the necessary labor is recruited.
Revival in the lumber industry
has added nearly a dollar a thou
sand to the stumpage value of tim 4,
Der lands in this section in the last .
two months and the continued ac- /
tivity in this industry has encour-
aged the feeling of prosperity be-
cause OF the large part it plays in
the industrial life of the south.
Distribution of merchandise. both
retail and wholesale. is showing
Improvement although this is the
time of year when usually trade be-
gins to slacken. This is encourag-
ing merchants to believe that fall
sales will be closed to former high
records. Optimism has been in
creased by favorable outlook for
every crop grown in this district
except cotton which is backward
PHILADELPHIA,
Philadelphia, June THE move
ment of miscellaneous freight over
the Pennsylvania and Reading sys-i
TENS for the first week of June has
been far heavier than for the CORE
spending period of 1921, but the
total carloadings show a decrease.
rms is due to the falling off in an
thrac1te coal shipments because of
the prolonged strike. No incon-
venlence from lack of fuel in this
section has been reported but the
tact that 100000 men in the anthra-
cite helds have been out Of work
now for 10 weeks is seriously affect
ing business in eastern Pennsy}-
Vania as it influences the buying of
goods to meet the necessities of
over one million persons.
The continuation of building
operations throughout this district
Is undated. Rows of dwellings are
gong up all over this city and two
new office buildings to cost S.. 600
oOO Will soon be under wav The
of frame dwellings in !
the south Jersey resorts along tho
cast is being rushed at top speed ,,
10 catch up with the demand for a,
cottages. This is particularly true
N ocean City. Members of the ;
building trades are well EMPLOYED
ana there is an extensive demanJ
Tor building materials.
Many of the smaller business ,
places and neighborhood sbons :
closed since the beginning of tho =
year when depression caused fail =
lres, are being reopened in many 9
Eases with foreigners replacing tho q
original occupants.