The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-11
Our Trade.

Our Trade.
We are informed that our merchants in
every line of business are filing their stores
with larger and more valuable stocks OF
goods than have, in any previous year, been
brought to this city. The large sales last
year-notwithstanding the revulsion and
Panic-have induced unusually heavy pur-
chases, in the expectation that the jobbing
trade, which the peculiar events of the times
brought last winter and spring, will become
affixed and regular portion Of our business.
Last winter many small dealers came here
10 replenish their stocks, who had usually
purchased, previously, at Cincinnati, Louis
vile, or at the East. Their wants were
small and the state of their accounts with
their old friends, did not permit of farther
dealings with them till after a settlement.
The events of the present year will carry
these men back to their old places of traffic,
unless they have found and are pursuaded
for the future they can buy as advantage
ously here as in larger markets. The trade
oflast year was incidental to make il per-
manent, there must be substantial advan-
tages offered.
There are no reasons why all the substan-
tial articles Of trade should not be sold as
low here as at any point in the West. We
have great facilities of transportation in re-
ceiving and shipping goods. Rents are low,
and living is cheap, and clerk hire and labor
is less than anywhere else. The costs OF
doing cuisines are, therefore, less than in any
large place. If our merchants will buy o.
the manufacturers instead of jobbers, they
can sell at lower rates than the same article:
penses are double what they are here. TIL,
secret of our ability to compete with Louis
vile and Cincinnati is in the purchase o
goods. There are few establishments here
in different lines, who are taking to them
selves trade that formerly went to Cincin
natl, and it is found on inquiry that the,
are dealing Immediately with the producer
of the wares, and are paying no iutermedi
ate jobbers, profits. To secure the trade tina
can be brought to this point goods must b,
bought so as to sell them at, or less than
Cincinnati and st. Louis prices This car
be done by the right system of purchases
Much, too, can be done TO promote tn,
trade and growth Of the city, by maxim,
known its advantages and facilities and til,
ample stocks which its warehouses contain
We have often heard new visitors express
their surpriSe'to find so large stocks as ar,
offered for sale in Evansville. Its advanta
ges rs a purchasing market are not known
to people within forty miles of the ,ity
because our merchants do not take sufficien
pains to let the world know what they Cal
do. Greater liberality in the distribution
of circulars, cards, acknowledgements woulc
not only benefit the individuals who incu
the expense, but would serve to make tn
place known, and attract attention 10 il
and aid in its general prosperity. Their
are few who have built up trade an,
grown rich by the force of circumstances
and in spite of very penurious system G
economy. But it will not do for those VIII
have their fortunes all in prospect, to FOLLOW
IN the footsteps of the old stagers who bu
goods from the same houses and in the sam
way they did twenty and thirty years acc
and bring them here-mark up the regula
per cent, profit upon the cost-be it what i
may-and then expect the world 20 cor,
searching around the corpers-w;thout sig,
or advertisement to guide them-to sud Il.
goods, pay the cash, and take them away.
This has been the course Of t.adc here
and it possibly. may do little while Ion
ger; but it is not in the course Of the aCc
nor with the tendency of events. One O
two things are inevitable, faster set {
men must take the lead or the trade v III L
eventually ledto another point The publ
cation of the recent Board Of Trlde Rcpo
Is an illustration Of the good effects of sue
expenditures. Its statistics are copic
everywhere, and serve to make the pla,
known throughout the country. BY keel
ing up these issues and showing the wor
what we are, We may hope that in fe
years, when inviting learned and omn
cient Yankee to come and lecture to u, !
will not be obliged to write back and inqu
where Evansville is, aud how he can reac
it, whether by sea, lake, river or land. I'll
citizens Of Evansville have strong local q
tachments, but their local pride and publ
spirit is not in proportion to their love
home. They don't value it as it deserve
The Haskin Meeting.