. Hardware merchandising August-October 1912. esnot seem very sound. The twenty year >- V- c^Q g >> w 1 l« CI / g * . frc f hwr . Ci 1 1 ft .-{0 f . )f I _A . 5f A .^ / ffl \ * S> i . cVo \ ^a4 r? 1 V J - f * / v *f7 I \ t ft \ U b 1 :u \ 1 ?4-3 J -fa t -4/ t ?r ?fc / Chart which illustrates the rapidadvances iron has made in the lastdecade and a half. The average pricein 1900 was higher than the presentfigure, but 1912 is not finished realistic display of fall sporting goods in the store of Lariviere Incorpore, Montreal. cycle would seem at most a coincidence,moreover, the a
. Hardware merchandising August-October 1912. esnot seem very sound. The twenty year >- V- c^Q g >> w 1 l« CI / g * . frc f hwr . Ci 1 1 ft .-{0 f . )f I _A . 5f A .^ / ffl \ * S> i . cVo \ ^a4 r? 1 V J - f * / v *f7 I \ t ft \ U b 1 :u \ 1 ?4-3 J -fa t -4/ t ?r ?fc / Chart which illustrates the rapidadvances iron has made in the lastdecade and a half. The average pricein 1900 was higher than the presentfigure, but 1912 is not finished realistic display of fall sporting goods in the store of Lariviere Incorpore, Montreal. cycle would seem at most a coincidence,moreover, the accompanying chart, whileindicating how prices have balanced inEngland during the past score of years,yet shows that in the early days of thepast two decades prices were low, whilenow all signs point to a still rising mar-ket, Market Altogether supplies are low. They havebeen built up somewhat since the coalstrike, but not to anything approachingtheir former level. The demand, on theother hand, is increasing almost The following items were taken fromthe issue of Hardware and Metal ofOctober 1, 1892: The price of lead has shrunkabout 10 per cent, in the last sixmonths owing to the decline in thevalue of the raw material fromwhich it is made. Lead is nowremarkably cheap, 3^0 being anaccepted price to jobbers and a stilllower quotation being possible forround lots. But shot is made cheap-er that it would otherwise be by thereappearance of cutting on the mar-ket. (Editors Note.—The position is nowexactly reversed. Shot is soaring inprice as a result of the extremely highprice of lead. Several advances havebeen made in shot prices within thepast few months.) *• * 3 John Cameron, representing theMacLean Publishing Co., publishersof trade papers, was in town onTuesday. All the MacLean papersare receiving a constantly increas-ing patronage throughout the Note.—It was this policy ofthoroughly covering a field which wasthen comparatively new, that
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