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Show Good Business in 1927 The merchants of Bingham were busily engaged during last week pre. paring for and taking inventory.. Be. tween customers all handj were busy assembling in kinds in a manner to be convenient for the checkup. Windows Win-dows were stripped, show cases were turned Injide out. the contents parceled parcel-ed out and when the business of the year was over Saturday all was in readiness for the two holidays, Suiv dy and Monday, and good use was made of them in order to be free of interruption which on other days would greatly interfere with this work. While most of the merchants hare staple stock to supply the immediate needs of their customers, many of them report a smaller carry.orer than heretofore. Notwithstanding the fact that wholesale purchase were as larK or larger than usual The public bought more merchandise this year than ever before. While there baa bn aom mar-uiering mar-uiering about business tbe pmt year the merchants of Blngtvun may be said to bare don a fairly good bust. ues, and for the most part are not complaining. Business aj a whole throughout the UniBed States has ex. perieneed a reaction during the twelve months Just past but at the begim ning of the new year there are no clouds on thefinancia I horizon of suf flcent magnitude to cause unea-lnegs to the world's business men. There Seenas to be a feeling of optL mism among the business men and financial institutions that in Iteelf inspires in-spires confidence and should go a long way in ea using a steady, healthy growth In business. In our own section we can see many thing,? which Indicate better business conditions for the future than we hare ujoyed In the past. As we See It our business conditions here deppnd large-ly large-ly on one thing only the selling priop of tin metahv predw to- thl; , di8trict-,DurlneJ1827 tha wvaillng price of all these metals haa been un. usrully low. At tha beginning of 192R these price are substantially improved improv-ed and the surveys made by best in. formed persons In this line. Indicate the prioee of metals will remain s they are or go to a higher level In w'-k-h case production win more likely like-ly Increase than decrease. |