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Show WHEELS BEGIN TO SPIN AGAIN IN INDUSTRIES Business and Finance Expert Finds Conditions Poinf to Excellent Times B am:m:t APPLE. 'We are near the bottdin of the business d( presslon,' skjta A. w. iouiir-las, iouiir-las, vice- president of the .Simmons Hardware oompiiny. A ppoedy revival of buslni s.s is olsp predicted by A t' Uetiford, chairman of the board of directors of ib" Btand- nrd iU ooinpuny. in a speech at a private pri-vate gathering of m:tnufaitur rs. i EXTILE 'IS D SXRY REVIVES. Carolina cotton spinning mills have started up on an average of nearly full-time. Including Wbodside Mills, world's largest cotton mill under oiu-roof. oiu-roof. similar pick-up taking place ln New Ehurland. Conference ol nili owners, at Charlotte. preiicts revival t i ntire cotton spinning industry i April 1. ut rHWI 1 TR M'l R 1L1 1 1 S. With heat 30 eents above last fall's low price, business, in the northwest has picked up decidedly. Grain loadings on western roads are heavy, deliveries to Chicago being the I ngest for this time of year since 1 'J 1 7 . The movement ir so great that Northern North-ern Pacific and Great Northern have Itieued emergency orders agamst grain cars leaving their lines. World's stocks of wheat on hand now 226.000.000 bushels, smallest In ten years. Compures with 32 3.000.000 bushels same time a year ago and 153, tiOO.OOO In 1910. Supply and demand de-mand make the price. 1-ooks better for farmers. RAINBOWS General resumption of automobile Indostry in Detroit I looked for when l ord plant reopens February 17. Steady employment appears at hand In shte Industry. At Milwaukee na- llnn.il fnnvfnllrm i f chnp flcAlorK. 11'- i. ra were placed for more than 1,-00Q.OOU 1,-00Q.OOU pairs of thooa. Stoch market recovery is considered consider-ed an anticipation of general business revival. Maj be a slump in February, but upward movement apparently has arted Average price of fifty leading lead-ing railroad and Industrial stocks is now .-ixty-slx, against sixty-one December Decem-ber 23. i o 2 0, and eighty-eight November Novem-ber L, i?i9, and sixty-two December 31, 1914. MOM A I ' i I.I I I I I I I l 1.. Period of cheap money t hand. how r Commodity prices moan less money required to do business, releasing releas-ing funds. Bfohey Is a commodity aiuj banks must sell their goods' complete. 'all loans in market outside the exchange recently have been Diado ns low as 4 per cent Highest 1920 rate was 25 per cent ln February, Febru-ary, and average for yea;- was aboe 8 per cent. Time loans running as low as 6 per cent. With money easier, big foreign financing fi-nancing is scheduled for next few months. That will help exports CO! KN RALLIES. Cottop is rallying steadily from early December low prices. Recovery seems to have started on healthy basis. Twi reasons for the advance: Revival of demand from New England nulls, and the rise in Brltiab exchange, which will permit heavier purchases of American cotton by England. American Cotton exports in December Decem-ber were 78 8,578 running bales. Domestic Do-mestic consumption Is improving steadily. |