Show I 1 MARKET FOR MACHINERY now that the war is over and peace has been declared the whole country should return to normal and usual pursuits with a feeling of thankfulness in their hearts and with a determination to intensify all efforts along industrial lines it is true that the period intervening between the signing of the armistice and the final acceptance of peace terms has had a disquieting effect in business circles and that many enterprises and projects have been held in abeyance until the war question had been fully and definitely set tied and yet there have been many encouraging signs that when we could finally remove from our minds all thoughts of war and concentrate all of our energies to regular affairs there would be such a revival of activities in business and industrial circles throughout the united states as to call for every pound of energy and every article of machinery that the country possessed or could produce even during the trying period of waiting there has been a growing demand for mine and mill machinery for surface and underground equipment and now that this country knows where it is at the business of machinery manufacturers and dealers should assume almost beyond ability to handle or take care of for there are thousands of enterprises which have been on ice for a year or more which will now take form and which in their consummation will require the assistance of the machine builder and the machinery dealer from now on the machinery man should come into his own |