The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-12
The Business Season.

Those who have read, daily, our publish
ed list of the arrivals and departures Of
steamboats,, must have thought that if each
boat was furnished with even an ordinary
load, the amount of merchandise deposited
upon our levee by them, would be consider
ed as very great for frontier city, yet in
its infancy-but if it is considered that all
these boats have come hither laden to their
utmost capacity and that several of them
have brought barges, also, filled up with mer
chandize, in tow, there will naturally be q
wonder as to where all this stock goes to,
and how it is disposed of. No one who has
been in the habit of visiting the lower and
upper levee since the opening of navigation,
but must have been struck with the great.
ness Of the amount of merchandise of all
kinds landed thereon, and the rapidity OF
its disappearance There arc not stores or
warehouses enough in St. Paul to hold the
half of what has arrived, and the question
naturally arises, how then is it disposed Of!
The answer is easily found in the clamor-
Gus demands of the whole ountry north and
west of u.s. st. Paul, as the common cen
ire for all the Territory, with few and tr
fling exceptions, has become the entire
pot fer all the trade of the upper Minnesota
especially, and in no mean degree for large
sections in the lower portion. Having a
fixed business character throughout theEast,
she holds the commanding power which
compels the business of this region to her,
and while dispensing benefits all over the
Territory, holds always the substantial and
angmenting power of control in herself.
Notwithstanding the immense importa-
tons, the stores of our merchants do not by
any means look full, for the supplies that
have come forward have been taken up for
interior consumption, almost as fast as re-
ceived. Orders are still going forward for
goods, for our merchants have found, much
to their own qualification, of course, that
they must extend their business in order to
bring it to the level Of steady mercantile
operations. Owing to the great demand,
especially for provisions, the market has not
yet assumed a settled state, and it will re-
quire week or two to elapse, and plenty of
arrivals to place our dealers in the position
of steadiness which is desirable
Thousands of immigrants have passed
through our city on their way to their new
homes, and scarcely one out Of these thous-
ands but has taken hence a portion Of sup
plies. All the resources Of our merchants
have been taxed to the uttermost, and they
are now hard worked to furnish what is de-
manded. .,..
The business season thus far has been
most gratifying, and there is no reason what
ever to suppose that it will flag in the least.
We are but in the beginning of it,and all the
accounts, received daily from below, tend to
confirm us in the belief that during this sum-
mer, st. Paul will do business unparallel
ed In the history Of any city Of her age and
position. We feel a pride in recording this,
and every citizen of Minnesota must enter
tain kindred sentiment. Whatever min
listers to the prosperity of St. Paul has its
reflex and beneficial action upon the whole
Territory, and her building up in business
character and means, must tend likewise to
the solid increase Of the prosperity of the
Territory. .lr,.,. ID
. No sectional differences can enter, into
this, for nature has pointed out the spot
where the great commercial interests and
operations Of the Territory are to centre
and hare their active existence, and that
spot is the city of st. Paul d, ,s5.. .,,.l ,%