Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-12-02 | Page 16 | Prosperous Business Year

P RfiSPEROll Activities Unabated and Rise in Prices Continuing Many Reassuring Features. New York, Dec. 2. Dun's Review will say: Business enters on the final stage of its most prosperous year, with activity ac-tivity unabated and the rise in prices continuing, yet with clear evidence of commendable judgment and prudence in many quarters. It still is a noteworthy and reassuring reas-suring feature that producers in many instances endeavored to discourage demand rather than to stimulato it, and some interests have virtually withdrawn from the markets in an effort to check the influx of orders which they cannot handle. Buyers, howevor, are impelled to cover far forward for-ward needs because of apprehensions that the paucity of supplies now witnessed wit-nessed in some lines may later become be-come more general, though signs multiply mul-tiply of the restricting influence of the extreme living costs on consumption. consump-tion. Weekly bank clearings, $4,756,733,-220. $4,756,733,-220. nn