Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-05-15
THE BUsINEss SITUATION.

to take no step to better the general condition
of trade would be suicidal But while we ad
NIT that dull times prevail, we are very fal
from admitting that the situation is anything
akin to hopeless. Dull times prevail every
i where this season. At the East, Throughout
the whole vast country across the continent
the papers and market reviews and telegraph
all inform us, there is stagnation of business
greater than has been known since 1836-'37
In San Francisco, the great metropolis of the
| upper Pacific coast, trade is quite at stand
still, the business pressure is unusually severe
All over California, through Nevada, at Port
land, and in all Oregon, the same complaint is
made of business stringency, dull times, heavy
falling off in the accustomed trade. With this
universal dizziness and inactivity in trade all
over the land, far off and close about us, it is
not to be wondered at that comparatively dull
times exist here 1t would be passing strange
if any other condition. of business affairs did
exist. But here, as we remark, the pressure
and stagnation is light and moderate, when
contrasted with that which exists almost every
where else. From gentlemen of shrewd OBJ
servation, experience and intelligence, who
have passed the winter some in San Francis
co, some in Portland, and the others in various
places in the interior of California and Ore
gon,-we learn that in none of the cities or
business marts they have seen, did they observe
SO fair and active business operations as here,
nor anything like so good prospects for the en-
suing season, as in this very city. Some of our
informants left here last year with the intention
of making their permanent homes in other
parts, but after looking about they have con-
Guided that right here in this city, or in this
Basin, they can do better in business way
than elsewhere, and are now back here con-
tent to make this their home.
A little reflection will show us the local
causes for the present dullness in trade. The
past winter was the longest and most severe
ever known here, and consequently the mining
season was delayed full month beyond the
usual period of commencement. The claim
owners and hands have in many instances con-
tracted Indebtedness for longer period of en-
forced idleness than they contemplated, and
this Indebtedness drags heavily just now upon
the merchant, who is anxious to make his col
Iections to meet the demands from below for
his Spring stocks received or on the way. Then,
the Lemhi excitement is upon us, audit has the
effect more to unsettle, than actually to deplete
trade for any material period And besides,
some of our merchants have heavy surplus
stocks of merchandise on hand and for this
reason they are not receiving the large stocks
BY early trains and wagons which they received
1t this season in past years, and the want of
his usual spectacle, indicative of active bust
less, upon our streets, gives the appearance of
lullness which does not actually exist. The
act is not to be denied, however, that there
Ire too many engaged in business just now, and |
his condition ofthings causes a baneful c0mpe-
ition in prices, which affects the real prosperity
# those who propose to carry on perma-
lent and reliable business.
DuG JIG LOU SI6dG LuuuA Vi Uil0 Ouln6S6 Ia
'orers is the greatest and most ruinous of all
he causes which initiate against the present
Welfare and the future prosperity of this city
nd Boise Basin. They come in droves, are as
reat pests as the locusts of Egypt, and do lit
lie more than exhaust the riches. of mining
ountry without comforting any benefit in re-
urn whatever. Until some means are taken,
not to get rid Of many of them already here,
0 prevent the coming of the hundreds more
Who are on the way, we shall see harder
ines and suffer greater losses in business, in
he depreciation of property. and in every man.
er. We are told by some that no stop can be
ut to their coming. We know that the min
rs in California, in Nevada, and in other por
ions of this Territory, have very successfully
pphed the means to prevent the diggings from
icing overrun and worked by Chinamen and I.
7e do not see why the miners here cannot
dept the same salutary and effective means to ]
ne same end. It may be for the temporary {
dVantage of a few claim owners to employll
angs OF Coolies at what would be starvation
RACES to white men, but we are sure if even
ae men who do this will consider the subject t
a all its bearings, they will find that it is bet
er in the end, in every respect, to have nothing
} do with the Chinese, and to employ none but |
rhite men 10 labor in their claims The min 7
RS can resolve that Cinnamon shall not own
ailns in their district, as the miners have
one in many instances in California, and in e
Their ways SO act as to prohibit the swarming IA
ither Of the intolerable pests
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