Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-03-23
NO. y.
TIE Prospects.


[ The present plethora Of money and torpor of
! business are what all far-seeing men expected
I TO follow The late conyUlsioA. Money Is a drug
III al the great commercial centers, merely be-
cause the solvent portion Of the community have
for months been engaged in paying off their
debts and contracting their engagements, until
one hall the currency which was needed year
ago now sutrlcl9 j million dollars now buy SO
much more Grain, Sugar. Tobacco, Cloth and
iron tlan I like sum did last March, thai
more limited currency Is required, and lnoneE
atcumulates on the hands UI capitalists and
bankers But let any man undertake TO obtain
q loan ON very long paper securities of
doubtful solvency or convertibIiity, and he finds
money nearly Is hard TO get now Is ever; for
those who have IL mean TO keep IL until they
can put II where it VIII be slsfc to come back
again Just where they want IL There never
was q ieS- favorable time 10 borrow or buy or
doubtful Tapsy than the present: aDd country
merchants who have hitherto failed 10 pay
.rorgt. VIII find harder work TO renew their
stocks tins season than ever before. Whoever
a-nIres 10 " Get into business ON tn strength
q other mems capital, viii find success anna
Zngly difficult ~ 1858. ...-
There Is Of course seme improvement in trade,
though slow and partial. Imports inereass,
though still far below the Unprecedented aggre-
gates OF the former half of 1885,. some factories
and furnaces, which had stood still for months,
have recently started s2aln are 10 be started
Spring VIII doubtless give some impetus to ma
staguanj, yet prices VIII generally be ,low.
Trade limited aud Manufactures depressed du-
ring the current year. Hence, thousands who
are now hoping soon 20 find employment IN Cit
les clerks. or mechanics. laJorcrs, are DOOM
ed 10 disappointment Some Of these now idle
and waiting viii obtain places but quite as
many VIII bitterly lament that they had fixed
their eyes 50 long on phantom which when
they la,tcucd to seize It. Guided their grasp and
IgrIsacd forever.
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Cur readers, and urge them to say 10 others
There viii he no abundance OF work IN cities
tAIs season, whether :or mechanics, clerks, por-
ters, iaborers, private Teachers servants, or IN
whatever capacity and those WHO are not al
solutely SlFe Of employment should quit tho
cities Gs spgedIly and generally possible.
There Will be but moderate trade this year +;
and there VIII nor be half so many buildings
or ships constructed rs usual, simply because
Tic present supply of both exceeds the present
or immediately prospective demand. Fewer
carmen, carmen, por;ers, stcyedOreye, VIII hc
required TO move the goods imported or distrib-
UiCd. because o. the diminished demand for
goods, sud the general retienchment Of OUTLAY
aud expenditure. III short, TO have a
dull season, while tie charity which has done
50 much 90 alleTiate the miscries Of the Winter
cannot lie expected to TenIaru 50 active and eff
Client through the Summer.
We know it VIII lie said that this dullness
will extend TO the country, and that labor viii
as we'll Is elsewhere. This IS partly, but not
entirely true. From the moment the frost is
entirely and finally out Of the ground there IS
uiways q demand t1r labor IL almost every rJi-
raj district. and especially in the Great Vest
No man able and willing to do 3 fair day 5 work
need travel many days outside of city in gust
Of employment. ages will Of course be low,
bat less money Is required 10 buy gwen amount
OF food CT clothing than last year. And for those
4 who able TO reach the Great West, there new
CT was more favorable season than this Ey-
/ cry thing you need to bay Is very cheap there,
80 that every hundred dollars VIII 90 as far
toward buying land or stock, or implements, or
! NO king farm, or Bubssting family as two
! hundred vent one year ago. Men who have no
anchorage in the cities and villages nor the as
surance of work and bread from year to year.
why will you not make bold push for the Free
/ West To wait for ampler means or better
/ prospects, - madness you have already waited
( ioo long # you have a fair assurance Of living,
+ where you are, do you please about cmigrat-
/ iug bus II YOU have nothing OF the sort resolve
+ to seek comfort and independence at the hand,
/ OF God rather than man, and strike out boldly
4 inr home Of Your own IN the broad, hospitabla
/ WCs. ~ J. y-sEsy.e