San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-05
Volume of Goods Sold Last
Week Up to Elk
pectations.
MANY SPINDLES IDLE
Coal Markets Of Country
Show Some I'm
provement.
BY j. C. ROYLE.

Copyright, by The San Antonio Lssht.
New York, Aug. 4.-Years ago,
political campaign manager in a West
ern state defined an honest man Al
one who would stay bought.
Today wholesale and manufactured
define a good customer as one WIFI
will stay sold
The makers and merchants hav|
booked most satisfactory volume d
orders in the last fortnight.
Last year they were perturl.,d abou|
whether the railroads could carrj
their goods to customers.
This year some of them worry abOu|
whether the transportation c0mpanie|
will be asked to carry them back Il
the shippers.
The volume of dry goods and cloth
ing ordered the last few days has beef
fully up to expectations.
Stocks of retailers are known to b
servative that the majority of who'd
salers and producers believe the can
cellations will be small.
The buying response TO Lightweight
prices of the American Wooden COM
pany has served to encourage othe|
wooden manufacturers and the tradin|
in wool has taken a slight brace. a
though buying has not beel- sufficieI
to lift prices.
Cotton Plants Cut Down.
Curtailmcnt OF operations by cotto
manufacturers continues to be the GU
standing feature of the textile situs
ton. The largest of the New Ems
land mills are running four days
week and in New Bedford and Fla
River production is less than 40 pd
cent of capacity. Southern mills hayt
begun to be affected to lesser III
gree. Half n million spindles may /
idle during August.
Sales of cotton goods have decline
steadily and show loss in the Ne
Bedfoul district of about 10000
pieces a week as compared with Il
first of this GEAR. The late a nnnil
in raw cotton stimulated sonieWn!S
prices for cotton cloths, but not sale
There seems TO be general feelil
among silk dealers and manufacturer
bottom and the local raw silk mark
improved sharply at the end of Il
week.
ain this district" according
William A Law. chairman of Il
board of the First National Bank
Philadelphia, there has been hull
new buying and activity in text
lines has been materially reduced. TIL
does not mean, however. that bushnell
is Rad or that the people of this cor
munitv are taking n gloomy view
the situation.
Farm communities are more OPT
mistic.
Coal Markets Improve.
Business men generally are begi
ming to believe that perhaps too gre
emphasis has been laid on the effect
the present wheat prices on busine
as a whole. The corn crop gives ind
cation of splendid returns and 9th
agricultural products are bringi
ready cash to the farmers.
The coal markets are showing sor
improvement. The householders of
North and East are laying in su
plies in preparation for a possit
strike in the anthracite fields. b
there are still heavy offerings of sr
bituminous coal at cut prices.
There is no question that the bit
minous operators without opening a
other mine could turn out enough co
to supply the country indefinitely.
is estimated that they have surpl
of 200 900 men on their pay rolls CO
.sidering present demand and ma
mines therefore are working thr
days or less a week.