Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-02
Correspondence Of The Sentinel
81. Louis and her Trade-Her Facilities
OF transportation, stocks OF Goeds,
Hotels, improvements, Merchants.
Sr. LOUIS. Sent .gth 1856


Sr. LOUIS, Sept 18th, 1856.
AT no time In her commercial history has st.
Louis looked out upon a more favorable pros.
pect than at this period She is able TO poip,
to increase and progress upon every side. and
with an assured confidence felicitate herself ON
continuance Of this condition Of affairs. The
most substantial improvements are giving 10 her
streets an aspect of solid progress. and the ex.
tension OF her connections with other parts Of
the country, is add lg vastly to her Importance
as the great commercial metropolis of the West.
the Southwest, and the North West.
The daily expansion of her business. its en-.
trance upon new rami6cations, and the devel-
Opment Of fresh resources and the recocnition
and encouragement Of additional interests. are
giving vitality to her enterprize, and making an
actuality of that period Of more rapi d advance
ment which for years had been one of almost
certain hopeful anticipation.
The business activity which we are assured
scarcely showed pause even in the heat of sum-
mer, is receiving fresh accession Of energy from
the Fall trade. Every thOronghfare in the city
is already thronged with dealers from abro ad
and the tide Of custom flows in with a steady
and equable current.
st. Louis was never in better condition for
the accommodation Of her customers, notvith.
standing the obstacles her merchants have had
to contend with in the receipt Of their stocks on
account Of the low stage Of water in the various
rivers which float the resources Of vast coun-
try to her store houses. The supply Of goods
both domestic and foreign is in keeping in ex-
tent aud variety with the wants and wishes of
the rapidly extending area Of country that looks
to st. Louis for a supply. The means for the
distribution of merchandise purchased here,
are in every point, equal in all respects to those
of any city.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; the Terre
Haute and Alton Railroad the Springfield and
Chicago Railroad; the Pacific Railroad: tho
Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and other
Rivers with which she has direct and constant
communication with the East, the West, the
North and the South, are at the command Of her
citizens, and supply reliable, prompt, and rapid
means of transportation and travel to all points
of the compass.
~-'6S "-aNh mas toheu place IN I'M
city within few years is a subject of gratified
astonishment, even TO those who have witnessed
its progress. more active spirit is abroad,
and may be seen in a variety Of forms. Her in
ternal business facilities are now on a scale Of
largely increased proportions. New store rooms
and warehouses have been constructed in all
parts of the business sections of the city. and
by their substantial aspect and immense size
speak Of the increased demands that trade IA
daily making. Her Hotel accommodations have
been much enlarged, and are now equal in ex-
tent to all the wants Of the city whilst in quali-
ty they admit of no superiority. Her merchants
have themselves partaken in these cbanges.-
Whilst losing nothing of the character for
promptness, attention and reliableness that has
given them distinctive standing and preserved
st. Louis from many Of the sudden shocks that
overwhelmed with disaster more adventurous,
mercantile communities, they srel fully up ia
the requirements of the commerce of the day.
and prepared to meet their cestomers upon thtt
most liberal terms compatible with a healthy
and safe trade.
This is state of affsirs that is honorable to
them, and gives to st. Louis advantages and at.
fractions which the trading community else
where cannot fail to appreciate. @.