Show I MONEY IS SHORT ON LOAN DEMAND Situation Is Expected to Be Become come Better in hl the Near Future WHOLESALERS STOCK UP liP ADVANCE IN SOME PRICES NOTED IN LATEST SHIPMENTS Generally Generall satisfactory business Is re reported reported ported b by the various Institutions during the past Week eek The ne new year has much of promIse and banking and business businessmen men are am feeling over oyer the out outlook outlook look S The demand for mone money made on the variouS banks is h than can be supplied at the present time duo due to the fact that most oi of the banks balks have hae al alread already read ready made many n big loans on worthy and other projects Most of the cans calIs for money for far legitimate ob JeNs and amI If is 15 regretted that the banks cannot t see their way clear to make the desired loans It Is thought that this condition will vill not last long Rates of In Interest terest st h have ye not been shoved up on at ac account count of the lack of mont money y for loan pur purPOSES purposes POSES Much Macit of the tho money now being loaned out Is to pay for building material Everything looks favorable for a good goodyear goodyear year In the hardware trade ConditIons generally generall continue steadily satisfactory and thE ast of the traveling men are row leaving for new fields to conquer Collections continuo continue to be gratifying SprIng orders are up to anticipations the call at present including smaller steel ag agricultural implements ments garden hose wire cloth and goods or of similar character Lumber Shipments Slow Xo No change chane in the conditions of the pre previous week Is reported by the lumber trade except pt that shipments are slow and amI ears cars are becoming sc scarcer Consid Considering Considering ering that the weather has not been fa favorable for building operations there has been a good call caU on the local yards for aU all kinds or of building material materia Cement In Is to be had hut but prices have been cut so that the profit on this material has bas been cut to the minimum Orders are being received from the traveling men nn who started out some time ago on their rEgular spring tours Large stocks of goods from the eastern factories are being received d by the local wholesale dry goods trade During the present month one large firm alone re six carloads of goods One hun hundred hundred dred and fifty tons of piece goods on one Continued on Page Two I MONEY IS SHORT ON LOAN DEMAND Continued From Page One floor alone In the establishment ot of this concern gives an Idea of the great amount of goods already in stock Were ere these goods stretched out they would extend miles or cover 1 12 2 acres An advance of 10 per cent in Is noted while jo jobbers bers also report dress goods as higher Interest rest is being shown in wool goods gods for early fall delivery with a fair vol volume volume ume of orders at advanced prices In dress goods for spring duplicate orders show an increase In yardage over last year Wholesalers are In repeat orders for spot Dry Goods Special Sales SalesA A number or of special sales characterized the week in n local dry goods clr circles les There was a general clearing up of winter winter stock at greatly reduced prIces As a general rule these sales were well patronized making the business for the week run well above the aggregate for the first two weeks in 1909 The millinery trade is boosting the flower hat This hat will be the fad this spring if the millInery people have their II say Flowers in all shades and shapes will adorn hats of as many varied de designs e signs as there are varied tastes Fou Foulards Foulards lards are in considerable demand as are t also the heavier silks In general It Is thought that the trade In lightweIght silks will wUl not be so heavy as last year In hosIery gloves and novelties trade Is light Within a 0 few days there will com commence commence mence the exodus of the buyers to the eastern centers for summer and early I fall purchases |