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Show AS OTHERS SEE US. West Regarded as the Bright Spot of the Country in the Business World. I The west gives us encouragement. It is the bright spot of the country. Business is good. The farmers rich and out of debt and many with a handsome surplus in tr bank, From Kansas comes the report that corn is selling at 50 to 60 cents, which for that country is an advance of 100 per cent. Hogs arc bringing wonderful wond-erful prices. Cattle good prices. This does not mean cheap meat, but it means plenty of money for the farmers. farm-ers. The Iowa farmers as a class are out of debt and have money in the bank. Rural free delivery gives them the it "uing paper by 8 or 9 o'clock, and I with the telephone they call up their k merchants for the daily market. In line of thc farming centers within a radius of eight miles there arc over torty automobiles, and one firm has shipped over $300,000 worth of machines ma-chines to thc country towns since the first of the year; they range in price from $850 to $2,000. The mercantile and manufacturing districts of the West arc not as enthusiastic, en-thusiastic, but nevertheless show marked improvement. Trade conditions condi-tions arc satisfactory, stocks of the retailer and jobber are much reduced owing to th; hand-to-mouth buying ti ey have done since the panic. But H for all that, sales are Just a little be H low that of last year. Thc demand ..M for money is fair, and rates are gen- afl erally easy. International Confection M er, New York. M |