Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1902 — TRADE CONDITIONS ARE GOOD [ARTICLE]

TRADE CONDITIONS ARE GOOD

Business Revival Holds Bway Except at the Strike Center. “Gradual resumption of anthracite coal mining is encouraging, although the output is not yet sufficient to have any commercial value. Business com ditions are unsatisfactory at the strike center, but reports from all other sections indicate unusually prompt revival after the summer vacation with exceptionally large operations among dealers in the agricultural regions. “Notwithstanding some bad weather, large crops are now practically assured, although the most sanguine results may not be attained. Manufacturing plants are now fully occupied as a rule, the least gratifying reports coming from furnaces that cannot secure coke, owing to railway blockades. The transportation problem is becoming serious, as a factor of crop moving is about to be added, and moreover, much coal must be moved •by rail that usually goes to consumers by lake and canal.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. “Failures for the week numbered 173 in the United States, against 202 last year, and 14 in Canada, against 21 a year ago.”