Show THE CLOSING G YEAR WAS MOST mmm ONE Bradstreets Review Points Out Great Growth In Circles of Business Busi-ness and Commerce Now York Reviewing the wonderful wonder-ful prosperity tho great growth of industrial In-dustrial lines tho vast expansion of trade nnd commerce and the general developments of the year now closing brad streets says Nineteen hundred tind six was avery a-very remarkable year And yet this characterization appears Incomplete In view of the fact that old records were retired and new ones set up In the disproving of old proverbs and the predictions that 1905 was so favorable that better results wero hardly to be expected the following year Concisely stated 100C saw very favorable fa-vorable crop yields a record output of cereals close to highest yields and record values of other farm products unprecedented activity in all kinds of mining except coal enormous outputs out-puts of precious metals land speculation spec-ulation assumed enormous proportions propor-tions building activity surpassing the wonderful record of 1905 an unparallel unparal-lel Immigration surpassing totals of i clearings and railway earnings employment em-ployment active nnd labor scarce as never before a record volume of the circulating medium money proving altogether Inadequate for business purpose and filially and what is perhaps the most icmarknble development devel-opment of all thts reaching In a time of profound worlds peace of a wartime war-time level of prices of commodities without the slightest apparent effect upon demand which throughout the year pressed hotly upon supply and caused from the beginning of the year to Its close general complaints of the backward deliveries of goods After even a cursory review of the results re-sults Indeed one IB Impressed with I the Inadequacy of adjectives to give full expression to the wonderful development de-velopment of tho year now drawing to a close |