The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-04-20

EvansviiIe as n Grocery Market.
The wholesale grocery business in Evans
vile is steadily and rapidly on the increase.
Notwithstanding the general depression of
business throughout the country, the sight
ness of the money market, &C., the whole
sale grocery business of this year thus far,
has been marked by much heavier sales in
this city than to the same date last year.
This trade has not been confined to the re-
gion Immediately bordering upon Evansville.
but merchants from Lafayette, Terre Haute,
and different other points along the canal,
and of far distant towns, which have hereto
fore been supplied by the markets of the
larger cities, appear to have realized that Ev-
ansvile can offer equal il not superior in
ducements to any other Western city for
the sale of groceries. And why may not
this be SO! Evansville is the lowest city Of
any importance as q wholesale market on
the Ohio river. All the heavy groceries,
such as sugar ,molasses, coffee &c. intended to
supply cities above, are taken by this place,
and then have to overcome the worst obsta-
cles to navigation on the Ohio river, to
reach their points of destination. At Ger.
tain seasons Of the year, or stages of the
river, when the market here can be fairly
stocked, and prices low, it is almost impos-
sble for the markets above to obtain some
of the first wants Of country merchants in
the way Of groceries, with enormous freights
on the little they do receive, and conse-
quently higher prices to the country dealer.
We had an apt illustration Of this during
the winter just past, when the river was
low for long time, and much Of that pc.
riod ice was running very heavily. But
saying we have all the advantages for selling
groceries as cheap as they are sold at Gin
cinnati and Louisville, and that groceries
are sold as cheap here as at those cities,
which are indisputable facts-certainly the
country merchants of those points, no mat
ter how far. distant, who can have their
goods transported from Evansville at far
cheaper rates than from the larger cities,
must as many Of them do, find it greatly to
their advantage to purchase here. That
this view of the subject is becoming appre-
ciated among those interested, may be best
known in the fact, that the large increase in
the wholesale grocery business in Evansville
the last year, has come from ne,c customers,
men who never bought their groceries at Ev.
ansville before.
| The only objection which has heretofore
been urged against Evansville as grocery
markets., that full and heavy stocks of gro.
ceries have not been kept here. But this
objection no longer exists. Country dealers
will find at Evansville, large houses, plenty
of them, full stocks of groceries, and enough
competition for a healthy trade. There is
confident assurance of continued increase
in this department Of business, and to bring
and to sustain this increase, there will be
every inducement offered in low prices and
full stocks. We invite the attention OF
these country dealers who have not as yet
tried this market, and thus been enabled to
compare it's inducements with those oil the
larger cities, and even those in the interior
who have purchased more or less in the
Southern markets, to make a visit here and
examine for themselves. If the carriage oil
their goods from this point is cheaper OF
speedier than from Louisville or Cincinnati
it is to their advantage to buy here. AND
purchasing and shipping SO largely as oul
merchants do, and asking but reasonable
profits on their sales, they may make it tc
the advantage of those who purchase now in
the original Southern market, to buy at Ev
ansville.