Show I I TRADE REPORTS SON SHOW DECREASE IN IM According to to a statement Just I IJohn I IJohn John Perrin chairman of the board an eral reserve agent federal reserve beSan baSan be ba baSan San San Francisco Franciso the value of or dep r store and mall mal order ordEr house sales 1 I Twelfth district during February 1922 1021 01 91 per cent less than In February total sales of three thirty-three reporting amounting to this year ear CORwith corn com with wih last year Sales at I Ifor for the first two months of ot this year yeat 41 per rent less les In value than in th period a year ago maas Inai Ina as th th general price level of goods an anc ancI vices Ices at retail as shown by the cost costing I ing index of the National Industrial c cence cence ence board declined pl per r cent February 1921 1021 to February 1022 1922 1 I pears that the volume of business tail tai In February and in the first two n m l of this year has haa ha been greater than 1 same months of 1021 1121 According to reports report received fron wholesale firms frs In ten lines of buthe bu buthe the Improvement In trade at who which has be been en noted for the past I months was checked temporarily at atIn atIn In February Although sales snIps of drugs and hardware were greater a tr In than in February 1921 1021 sales IT ui ll i all 11 oth lines were vere not cot only les less s In than in-than 1 than In February 1021 but bu the perc of f g decline N was aja ajar greater r N than the perce of decline I In January 1022 compared 1 January 1021 1921 In five of ot the ten rep repe lines the decline In the value of sa sal February FebruarY 1022 1922 1922 compared with Fe Feb 1021 was greater reater than the decline In sale i isale sale prices during the eat period In InIng Ing a decrease In the physical volun well tl as s In the value of the business acted d I |