Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-01-19 | Page 8 | Business Handicapped by Lack of Supplies

II Business Handicapped by Lack of Supplies New ew York Jan 18 18 to tomorrow to- to morrow motTO will wll sa say Willingness to do business on a largo large o scale has been restricted by heavy snow snowstorms torms In tho the west vest by Intense congestion In rai railway 1 facilities which hits has made It well wel nigh Impossible to ship fuel or 01 other supplies and finally the fuel administrators administrator's order co closing plants for tor five days das and every Monday for tor ten weeks has thrown vast vast num num- I hers out of employment I Under the circumstances It is obI ob- ob I that the week has been marked by considerable cralle unsettlement but after aCer I the first shock it I is quite generally recognized that the fuel administrators administrator's tors tor's or order ei while drastic was necessary sar sary and anti the general tendency Is ono one of or patriotic obedience to the man mandates of ot the order In fact local administrators tors at ninny many man of the larger Industrial I I I centers knowing full tul well wel that numerous numer ous otis plants hail had har been leen compelled to close closedown down for Cor want of fuel had already adopted expedients to conserve supplies the iron and steel industry having boon been particularly beset beseL However tho country's country's COUl- COUl coun coun- try's e essential Industries aro heavily backlogged with wih orders and anc It Is hoped that when railway and harbor congestion lion tion tOI is relieved industry will wil again be enabled to go so forward with wih vim 11 v As 8 8 for tor sonic some Boro time past governmental business takes precedence over everything everything every every- thin thing else In ordinary tr trade e circles Jobbing business has been curtailed b by Inability to get shipments with wih which to fill tl orders orden but potentially thero Is Isa Isa isa a large larse volume of ot bU business In sight House Houge trade trad which of course results from tho the buying of or vl visiting merchants has be been n retarded because meteorological meteorological meteor meteor- conditions have crippled d travel but on 01 the other hand hund countr country merchants mer mer- chants especially In the surplus crop growing growinG re regions lons have ha e bought treel freely of staples their stocks being low v. lo loun un and in inconsequence consequence elu traveling men are aro forwarding for tor warding good sized orders Indeed buyIng buying buy buy- Ing from the country districts is marked by reorders and by requests to hasten haston shipments shipment of spring goods gooch Weekly Lank bank clearings