The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-11
The Report OF the Evansville Board
Trade.

Oh VEA0Cs
We observe that in Hunts Merchants
Magazine for November, the Report Of y
Board of Trade is copied
nth some Introductory and lie
,arks uuon the commerce entire,
, attract the attep'' closing re-
usiness men r. /. of the city, likely
the rer> .aion OF capitalists and
oect the place. The circulation
.ort through the pages Of that re-
able commercial periodical, which is
read by the capitalists and merchants of
Europe as well as our own country, will do
more than any previouspublication, to make
known our extraordinary local advantages
as commercial and manufacturing city,
The labor and expenses of the gentlemen
who prepared it. will bring back rich re-
munerations to the city, if not to them
selves.
The reprint of such documents in publ
cations like Hunts Magazine is made to
crafty the desire to obtain authentic local
statistics felt by capitalists and active bust
ness men all over the world. They want
facts and details in an authentic and reliable
form, on which to base their opinions and
views. Anonymous and general statements
may do much good to attract those who are
afoat and on the move for new location.
But the solid men who are casting an eye
over the world for the points that ara to be
the future centers of industry and trade, de-
mand deep, wide and minute substratum
of facts to build their plans upon. What we
need TO develope our resources, is solid capi-
tai to be invested by men who can afford to
wait its future returns from plans whose
magnificent results will be seen only in the
progress of ten and twenty years. There is
not man of intelligence and shrewdness
among US, but sees in the rich mineral and
agricultural regions around us, chances for
the Investments of money in any given
amounts, which, if he could wait a few
years for the development of enterprises
and the progress of the country, he could
realize hundred per cent upon the capital
At the East and in Europe there is capital
seeking for such investments. II is only
necessary to convey the knowledge we have
Of our resources and impart some of our
faith in the results to tho holders of that
capital, to induce them to transfer it to thii
neighborhood.
The evidence we now have of the want o
such information as was embodied in theil
last report will stimulate the Board O
Trade to prepare the materials for another
more complete Report for the present year
There is wide field for investigation. Tit
resources Of the entire region of country
tributary to the trade of the town should b.
set forth and its statistics published, for or
those the future prospects of the city can b.
calculated more surely, than on the presen
amount OF its commerce and manufacturing
products.
At the close of the Report, the editor G
the Magazine remarks, "that there is nj
doubt the vast manufacturing facilitie
which Evansville possesses will, as the Grea
Valley fills with inhabitants, make that
leading point for the supply of merchandise
All the raw materials for textile fabrics @
well as the coal and iron in such juxtapos
ton as makes the cost of production small
points not only to success in supplying tn
neighborhood, but in exports since cotto
manufactured SO near its place of growth
nj hot oh haoh aa fran %
a distance"