Business Boom In Sight

Chicago, July 30.- The Wholesale Grocer publishes today answers from jobbers all over the country to auestions regarding trade. The replies were from jobbers in twenty-seven states-, and 50 per cent. shows an increase in the volume of business for the flrst half of 1897 as compared with the same period Ia3t year. Thirty per cent. reports the volume about the same, ana 20 per cent, notes a decrease. The question if deñnite lmprovement in conditions was recognized was answered afflrmatively by 70 per cent. Sectionally 64 per cent, of the jobbers in the southern states, 65 in the eastern, 70 from the western, and 95 per cent. from the central states said "Tes" to the improvement question.