Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-08-31 | Page 11 | Dun's Review of Trade

DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE, Bigger Volume of Business, Larger Orders and Better Employment. NEW YORK. Aug. 30. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will say: Advices from leading cities, both cast and west, speak of a bigger volume of trade, larger advance orders, better on-ploymcnt on-ploymcnt of labor and a growing 0011 (I-dence (I-dence that the crops niako thc future fiecure- In every part of thc country business optimism Is tho rule and all other considerations con-siderations are practically Ignored In the conviction that n period of national prosperity pros-perity hap set In which only some great and improbable calamity could slop. The advance In tho Bank of England rate of discount to J per cent Is ah International In-ternational expression of more urgent demand de-mand for money. The Industrial Improvement Is shown by the fact that thc largo Increase In September dividends and Interest disbursements dis-bursements Is chiefly due lo the bigger earnings of Industrial corporations. Bituminous Bi-tuminous coal, as usual In a period of Industrial expansion, la. active and. firm. Foreign commerce Is large, but tho feature fea-ture now Is In tho growth of Imports. Further advances are generally expected expect-ed In iron and steel, reflecting the prevailing pre-vailing conditions in this market. Sheet steel Is in good demand and the larger plants are sold up to next January. Similar conditions prevail in wire products and prices on these have been advanced. Railroad requirements necessitate tho placing of considerable business and a substantial volume of orders for rails and other equipment is said to be pending.