Show LIVELY TONE IN TRADE CIRCLES Fred A Slade on Eastern Trip Notes Wonderful Improve Improvement Improvement Improvement ment in Business After spending Weeks In visiting the manufacturing and commercial centers of or orthe the east Fred A Slade president and i i I I general manager of George Mullet Co CoIs CoIs Cois Is hack In Salt SaIl Lake and reports that his have convinced him that there has been be n a wonderful Improvement In business and industrial conditions and that the fall rush of oC activity has already set in Mr Ir Slade went east on a pur purchasing purchasing chasing trip which necessitated his visit visiting vIsitIng visiting ing the factories as well as the large wholesale concerns He Hc was in Boston and In a number pf the manufacturing titles clUes of oC Massachusetts Massachusetts New York and other cities in the thc Empire state Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago and other places Factories everywhere are running full blast said Mr Slade Some of oC them now have hae more work to attend to than at this time a year ear ago In Journeying from the east I J noticed that there was much freight traffic upon all of oC the lines At frequent intervals I J could see long trains of oC freight cars on I sidings waiting for the passenger train In which I was riding to co go 0 by b While the railroad companies seemed seem d tp tl have plenty plent to do and there were hull indi indications of ot an increase in freight fre ht traffic I do not think that a car shortage that will interfere with business need be feared Crops were good everywhere ever here and they were particularly good in Nebraska Iowa Illinois and Minnesota I 1 was told that the crops this year ear are 2 per cent better than in any year in th the past decade This means that when the crops are sold there will be plenty plent of oC money In cir circulation circulation circulation and that general business condi conditions conditions conditions will be still further improved I was considerably Impressed with the I splendid conditions in Chicago The bus business business iness men there are full Cull of enterprise and confidence in the future |