Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1912 — “EVERY PROSPECT PLEASES” [ARTICLE]

“EVERY PROSPECT PLEASES”

Bradstrset’s Report Bays That Trade Continues Its Onward March. Bradstreet’s Report, a recognized authority on business conditions, sums up the present prosperity in the following words: “Every prospect pleases and trade continues its onward maitch. Cl nulative strength appears to be the order of the day. The quickening impulses of better things are extending to sections that heretofore have been relatively backward, and what is moat significant, garnered crops contribute even higher yields than were anticipated a fortnight ago, with those yet to be gathered—corn and cotton —giving evidence of astonishingly good progress. The crop situation is such as to generate optimism, the influences of which on trade are clearly apparent all over the wesL "Bteel business was never better, specifications In August were of record proportions, pig iron is active at an unprecedented rate of production, and higher prices have been named on a number of finished'lines. Jobbers of dry goods have enjoyed a good house trade despite the holidays, visiting buyers still being In evidence, and road sales are larger, while business for spring is opening in a good way with first hands.”