| Show WEATHER AFFECTS V c r ALL TRADE LINES Bankers Join Anvil Chorus and Wait Patiently for fort fori t i Blue Skies 7 COLLECTIONS RATHER SLOW I Delayed Crop Cause of Short TIe Re Report port Slow Business The Tho local banking situation has been quiet week wIth a better mone money supply but with the demand slackening Blackening dUe to the unpropitious weather It If unfavorable conditions continue during the tho 1 coming week another uneventful week be anticipated A o of the tho week neck however was the visit to this elt city o of Editor Edwards ot of the tho Const Coast t i Banker ot of sn San co who called l on the tho local banks during his short sojourn hero en route to Boston BORton An Another Another other In the personal line IIno was f the tho arrival or of the tho now new cashier of the tho thet t f National Copper bank from EI Ely Ne Nev 1 to assume his new duties here i E Henry dews Clews In his last laRt circular letter let lett tel ter says flays Tho question o of hl high h mer t chand Iso prices III still a vexed one to In January there was a moderate 10 cession In merchandise values Brad BradI t I streets figures showing a drop of 1 17 per cent due partly to popular agitation t tion against high costs of rood food and partly to the break In cotton The Tho true remedy for tor present hl high h prices Is isa II a general Increase o of production es cs especially or of rood food products and raw materials or of which the supplies generally gen generally are moderate Ir if not actually deficient This country Is preeminent preeminently ly Iy In need of a great Increase In agri agricultural cultural products Our farmers do not begin to turn out the product per pel acre acro that is done dono In Europe In many cases case their product could be doubled upon the present area b by better and more malO systems or of agriculture This is the only solution for the tho present problem ot of cheaper rood food In all probability probability ability It ft will wll Itself by natural means The great profits which farm farmers arm ers els are arc now making will Immensely stimulate agricultural activity Doubt Doubtless less It will attract to the agricultural classes n a higher or order order der or of Intelligence and result In theone the theune one une necessary thing or of Increasing the product per acre B By this method the farmer will not only maintain his present pres present ent profits but will at the tho same tinie considerably enlarge them meanwhile giving the consumer the tho benefit or of a ary ry 1 larger and cheaper supply o of food I Should the tho weather provo prove during the tho coming season there thero Is 1 over every reason to look for a large har harest harvest vest est the one thing above everything else elso which the countr country needs to maintain main maintain tain the lie present course of prosperity HARDWARE The hardware trade trado reports local conditions somewhat stationary on account or of unpropitious climatic con conditions although It Is to In excess 0 of February of 1909 There Is consider considerable able speculative buying In builder material but there can be no rush expected until there thero Is some mati on to settled Nettled weather However household sundries such as and table ware and utensils arc aro In very ory fall fair demand Collections are not what might be Jo desired particularly particular from points where It Is reported large quantities or of potatoes and graIn or of last seasons crops could not be moved because or of the thc great gleat depth ot of snow which Is claimed to bo be the deepest In 40 years cars Being unable to ship all of oE their products product farmers could not real izo on them and hence are lIy slow Blow In paying bills The paint and glass glaes section of the hardware trade Is reported vel very satisfactory and the tho part has nothing to ot of Sporting goods for tor tennis base baseball ball croquet golf etc are proving good sellers LUMBER The lumber trade reports It a general I condition or of quietude The Tho weather In Inthe intha the tha northwest Is unfavorable for out o of door operatIons there as haps a little more so ao as there Is con considerably considerably more snow there thero than hero here Then unfavorable conditions still sUII obtain on the railroads In th the northwest and cars are hard to get on the Hill lines Prices rem remain ln unchanged un chon changed sed remaining at a range not likely to be disturbed Immediately The retail yards are not doing much for tor climatically obvious reasons The Tho cement trade trado Is all that can be de desired der sired the tho new mill In the tho north send sendIng sendIng Ing out a L stead steady product which Is quickly absorbed b by the tho trade DRY GOODS The wholesale dry goods trade re reports ports being affected by the tho weather which Is something unu unusual ual for or the tho wholesale trade to complain of as generally gen generally climatic conditions do not at af affect that branch o of business Then to this may bo be added tho claims ot of man manufacturers that present prices hardly cover the COt cost of oC manufacture buyers allege that these same sarno prices are arc higher than trade trado conditions war warrant warrant rant Fall prices arc liable to bo be based on the tho suppo supposition lUon that cotton will bring higher prices later In the year eor Local trade tralle Is 1 fall fair with no j special features for tor the tho week Jobbers say that the general genera wholesale market strained with margin ot of profit too narrow In some ome lines as on napped rattans printed and heavy brown goods oo l The duck market Is Irregular J with concessions offered by small mills the demand for fancy dress Tuck suck Improving In some quarters There Thero has been a flurry In denims owing to a price reduction by nn an east eastern eastern ern factory I man There Thero has been close buying on colored fabrics with business on a close margin or of profit I Prints and bleached cotton colton goods are dull Ginghams are In demand re retailers being desirous o of washed fob to sell at popular Th There e et are of I delayed ed deliveries t particularly tI In t the west westFall j Fall ginghams have been heen selling well 1 Fine plain cottons do not sell freely I ane and In the gray gro tend to lower quota r lion Prices Price on many fancy fanc cloths have now reached 1 a point whore some lomo part ot of the product ran nn not hp he hal lCd i b by the tho wholesale trade nou Roush h of ef effects feets In fabrics move moe well ef cr effects i In nil all kin ls of fine finC cloths are aro wanted and some somo fair nil orders have havet t been received by first hands Th The knit goods status Is mixed with cotton colton rib ribbed ribbed bed underwear for or fall all well sold thought though fleeces are dull Fine FIno gU lisle effects arc aro culled called for or In largo lanto quantities also Ileo lightweight ribbed goods and and to some Home ox ex extent tent linen mesh Low Lol priced ladles goods are aro scarce There Is more call for or blenched bleached and colored hosiery hosler and also for or some fancy effects of oC n Il lace char character acter Spring silks are aro selling steadily though h there Is a tendency to curtail curtailment curtailment ment which 1110 may make Into spring pring and summer shipments to lecure Linen prices hove been marked up UI with a further rise promised The Tho retail fir goods trade Is not In a cheerful frame of mind this week on account of tho ho weather I appears to have given the tho business n a setback At the tho same Rame time there has haR been a fair air trading though by no means what had been hoped for or Then It is III between seasons II a time when there Is natural naturally ly h little doing However a feature Is the tho Introduction Into this market or of certain lines of Shantung and Foulard silks which aro 1110 spot Slot proof from rom water I |
