Show THE MG W MOST bradstreet review po ants out great growth n roles of busi nes and commerce new yurl reviewing the wonder ful pros penty the great growth of in lines the vast expansion of trade and co mmerLe and the general del of the year now closing bradstreets says nineteen hundred and six was 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 pie dictions that 1905 was so favorable that better results were hardly to be expected the following year concisely stated 1906 saw very fa 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 out p its of precious metals land spec assumed enormous proper eions building activity surpassing the wonderful record ot 1905 an lei immigration surpassing totals of clearings and railway earnings em active and labor scarce as never before a record volume of the circulating medium money proving altogether inadequate for business purpose and finally and what is perhaps the most remarkable devel of all the reaching in a time of profound world s peace of a war time level of prices of commodities without the sl 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 off the re suits indeed one is impressed with the inadequacy of adjectives to give full expression to the wonderful de of the year now drawing to a close |