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Show GREAT If E OF PROSPERITY IS 0ERCOUNTRY Cities From Atlantic to Pacific Pa-cific Join Unanimously in Lusty Yell That "Business "Busi-ness Is Good." RECORD HOLIDAY TRADE PREDICTED Eit.aiiuie readers in iviany Parts of Nation Declare Business Is Not Entirely Entire-ly Due to War. NEW YORK, Nov. SO.-Merchants here say Americans have more money to spend for Christmas this year than in any holiday season since 1906. The big stores are preparing for a record trade and wholesale houses are unable to fill orders in many lines. This is attributed to a rush of buyers from other cities to replenish depleted stocks. L. S. Pelz, secretary of the Wholesale and Retail Merchants' association, said today that the merchants or New York have never known better limes. "The business which has come to America because of the war lias put dollars dol-lars into the pocket of the average man," he said, "but I do not believe this prosperity pros-perity is dependent upon the war. If the war ended next month there would sun be prosperity here. "The wholesale houses of New York have all the business they can attend to. Orders are pouring In from the west. The country has money that is the sole explanation of prosperity." Coast Is Satisfied. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30. -Business Improvement wholly aside from that attributable at-tributable to the Panama-Pacific and Panama-California expositions was reported re-ported from all portions of the Pacific slope and the far northwest today. Trade organizations reported that general gen-eral local business would show an increase of 30 per cent over last year. Agricultural Agricul-tural conditions in California were reported re-ported to be the most promising in the history of the state, both as to crops and because of many organizations effected among producers. Money was said to be easier In the smaller centers of population than for years, and many reports from smaller banks were that confidence in banks was increasing because of the federal fed-eral reserve system. Seattle reported the best business' conditions con-ditions in Washington In four years, with the lumber business oing well, big crops, money easy and few unemployed. Northern North-ern Idaho, eastern Washington and western west-ern Montana reported increases in trade of from 15 to 25 per .cent over last year. Portland merchants' reported an unusually unusu-ally heavy holiday trade throughout Oregon, Ore-gon, duo to good crops and a bracing up of lumber conditions. Record Bank Clearings. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 30. A consider- , v iiilu luia ueeu gathering velocity for several weeks and j which Is being felt in nearly all lines,' has been noted by leading bankers, wholesalers and railroad men throughout the central northwest. Men in a position to judge, declare that Minnesota is on the eve of the greatest era of trade prosperity that the state ever lias experienced. They state further that conditions in North Dakota Da-kota and South Dakota supplement propitious pro-pitious conditions in Minnesota. The hank clearings in St. Paul broke all records today, when the 8t. Paul Clearinghouse association reported total clearings for the year ending today of $637.1117, 173.80. This Is S78.64S.371.63 greater than for the corresponding period ending November 30, lilH. Southwest Crops Big. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 30. -Bumper crops and increased output of mines and factories, all marketed at war prices, have left a profit in Kansas City trade territory terri-tory which will make the Christmas shopping shop-ping season just opening Ihe most prosperous pros-perous known in many years, according to E. M. Clendening, secretary of the Kansas City Commercial club. Throughout Kansas. Oklahoma. Arkansas, Ar-kansas, southern Nebraska and southern Iowa and Missouri messages of unusual prosperity have stirred Kansas City mer- " t"""c sioi'ks in preparation for heavy buying. According to figures compiled by state officials In Topeka. the Income to ihe people of Kansas alone fiom the sale of products of the state during the last twelve months amounted u SM'.uO'miuo. Improvement in Texas. DALLAS, Texas. Nv. :,...Flnsri,.inK of the Texas cotton crop and farmers hoidine their staple for a full -; cents a pound was the explanation giver, io-'la'v tor early iivole , this t.-rriiurv. Rank .lennslls siinw big imrcass lo-,' chanis .l..-.,re th-ir tra.le 1'nZ is mo-h better t : a:i for the las; , Wo years. Metals Going Up. KKXVKR. col,-,.. Nov. .-..,,,, j and inlustrial firms report business .'o, . O'oJoUS t.TOUlt.oilt til- Rooky J , , , , p ; ;, , , , j (Continued on Page Two.) j IWAVE OF PROSPERITY OVER EiMIi (ContlmiKl from PE One ) .'... .flK.li I'll ,.rn. '!' n nn.-- ..! . "!'" 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