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Show Improves Generally With the country entering into the second half of the year with a comfortable lead over a year ago, it is apparently facing the future with brighter prospects and more hope than for some time past. The gains reported have been substantial substan-tial enough . and spread over a wido enougn territory to give credence cred-ence to the belief that they a.-e liermanent and not due to any specific cause but are the result cf many combined factors. Ihe improvement in the lumber industry, which has suffered greatly great-ly from the depression, especially in the Northwest, the advance in prices for the wheat and cotton belts, and the resulting improvement improve-ment in the financial districts oi the East have all made their contribution con-tribution to the trend toward increased in-creased confidence and, consequently conse-quently better conditions. The results of a country-wide survey of business, made by The New York Board of Trade, Inc., revealed marked improvement in employment, working hours, wages, payrolls, volume of sales and public pub-lic confidence in all sections. A-mong A-mong the specific improvements noted were gains in postoffice receipts, re-ceipts, bank clearances, electric and gas consumption, telephones, industrial production, wholesale and retail sales, carloadings and railroad rail-road and other transportation. "Using every index by which business is measured," the Board comments, "the replies indicate substantial progress generally throughout the entire country." While the present advance may slow up perceptibly during the next sixty days, indications are that business this fall will be good and with a continuation of the apparent spirit of cooperation between be-tween all public officials, organized business and the public generally in working for the good of all rather than for self, the citizens of this valley may look forward to the future with anticipation and brighter hopes. |