Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-08-29

are business men of the first abilities
both as to a knowledge of goods and a
successful management Of their con-
Germs. Again, then we say-READ!
Ponder The subject a0eII, qgricultmIsts,
as you vdIne Il Just return for your Ia
Dor, and youg true interests demand.
CARROLL COUNTY, July "a, 1914.
Nh. PARKE-Sir: I applied TO L.
", GosNELL, Esq, highly respec-
table. wholesale merchant Of the city of
Baltimore, some two weeks since, for
a statement from his books showing
the prices he paid the manufacturer,
from the passage Of the existing tariff
law duly, 1912, up to the present
time, for such articles in hisline of bus
mess as are consumed by the farmer,
mechanic, and laboring portion of the
community.
He has kindly furnished. me with
the enclosed statement, signed by him
self and Beale H. Richardson, ESQ. ,al-
so merchant of high standing in Bal
timore. This statement speaks for it.
self: and send it to you with a request
that you publish it, with this note, in
your next paper.
BA1r1MoRE, 18th July, 1914.
Hon ELIAS BRowN-Dear Sir: In
answer to your inquiries in relation to
the prices Of coarse wooden and cotton
goods for the years 1912, '43 and IA,
we deem it necessary only to give you
the prices of few prominent items
which enter into general consumption
by the farmers and working classes, to
enable you to form a correct judgement
upon the subject.
We shall first take the article of fan-
nels, and will quote the fabrics of the
Salisbury manufacturing company
This is company with heavy capt.
tai, and whose fannels never reached
so low point of depression in prices
as the fabrics of other establishments
This weknow from the reason that in
1912 e0hea1 coarse goods reached about
their forrest point IN prices, we did not
purchase the Salisbury fannels, because
we could purchase others at lower
rates: for instance, the Salisbury scar
let, No. u, twenty six inches were
held at Is cents per yard. We bought
an equally good article at Is 1-2 cents,
and a much better at Is cents-we
take the Salisbury factory, however,
because their hannels are regularly
made, and numbered with so much ac-
curacy and uniformity that the trade can
purchase them without examination,
because the number and width indi-
cate the value with as much accuracy
as the size and number of cut nails in
dictate their value; which is not the case
with other fannels generally. We
therefore quote as follows:
For red and scarlet hannels of the Salisbury
factory for
lS43, g 8. "a g
1874, &c 80 s.
The next item we shall notice is
Glasgow Jeans, a coarse twilled article
of wool and cotton, for winter panta-
looms, "a yard wide. We paid in
1912, Il cents; in 1943, II cents; the
price now is 30 cts. per yard, and sell
ling rapidly. The quality of this arti-
Gle, it may be said, varies, but the quo
tatiors are ofthe identical same quail
ty of goods, manufactured by the same
factory, and sold by the same commits
sion house for the same quality, and
purchased by ourselves as such.
The next article we shall notice is
coarse cassinetts. An article called
''Sheep's Grey" manufactured of
South American wool in its natural col
ors we bought in 1912 at % cents; in
1913 at 80 cents, and is how held and
selling at AZ l-2 cents. A common
mixed cassinet Of fine texture, but
lighter fabric than the "Sheep's Grey"
well known to the trade, but the name
not now recollscted, sold in 1912 at
81 cents; in 1843 at 81 to 80 ID
cents; is now held at Al 2 cents, and
the agent informed US to-day that the
price will certainly advance to 90
cents when the fall trade opens.
A still finer article of mixed cassi-
nett, manufactured by the Maverick
company, we bought in 1912 at so 1-2
cents; in IS43 at 621-2 cents; the
same article is now held at rs cents,
and at that price is considered the
cheapest in the market.
The advance in common cotton
goods is nearly or quite as great in
proportion, as in coarse woolens. For
[CbocIu9ed on 4fh q,ope.