Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-07-19
For the Spectator
Where the Money Goes and How to Get
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Every one is just now complaining of hard
times and dullness of business. 1t will be ad-
mltted by all that this is all owing to the scar
city of money-that it money was plenty times
and busines would be good. 1t then becomes
an important question to all-where is the
many hundreds of millions of dollars in circu-
lation in the United States? and why have we
not got our share of them in the Valley of Vir-
glnia? To answer this question is the object
OF this article. Commerce, manufactures,
trade and enterprise are the great features that
distinguish civilization from savage life, and
money is the circulating medium through
which they are carried on-the life blood of the
body polite OF all business, and Rail Roads
and Steamships are the arteries through which
trade and its life blood, money, flows. You
might as well expect to find streams of blood
flowing through the parts of an animal where
there are no arteries as to look for money in the
section Of country where there are no Railroads.
The writer has had peculiar opportunities of
judging of this matter. He has for the last
twelve years been connected with the manufac-
ture and sale of an article which was of uni
versal use and has found its way into every part
of the habitable earth. His Company has up
wards of three Thousand agents scattered
through every nation on the globe In direct
communication with the home Office, which
enables them at all times to feel the pulse of
the money market in all parts OF the world.
Now when we have an application for an
agency, or it Is proposed to extend our business
into new section, how do you suppose We de-
termine the prospect OF success. Simply by
taking Rail Road map and examining the
Rail Road and Steamboat communication Of
the section. If it has one Rail Road it is
worth trying-lf two, 1t Is good, and If three
or four it is certain OF success. Now it is not
the mere matter OF transportation that makes
this difference, for our articles can be trans
ported anywhere, over any Road at trihing
cost, but it is entirely owing to the prosperity
of those sections which have Rail Roads and
the money in circulation in them There is no
profit in doing business among poor and destl-
tute people. These are truths aud facts, drawn
from an actual experience of successful bus
mess, aud merit careful consideration from the
people OF Augusta at this time, when they are
about to decide their status in the business
world for many years to come by their votes on
the Valley Rail Road question. The writer
has many times set down In his own room and
estimated within 5 per cent of the amount of
business au agent would be able to do in new
and untried county, town or section In North
Carolina, tennessee, Georgia, &c, &c., simply
by consulting Rail Road Map. There is
another feature of this matter worth consider
alton The best articles to which experience
sections supplied with Rail Roads where not
only money, but general intelligence is most
circulated, and inferior articles, especially of
machinery are driven out to seek market In
the more obscure section and are there haWked
about by sharp pedlars who impose on the
credullty OF the people, and thus the sections
with out Rail Roads get the worst of every
| thing for what little money they have, and at
the highest prices. The writer Is cognlzant OF
the fact that the people OF Augusta County
has within the last year spent enough money
tor worthless and second rate articles, to have
paid their tax On the Rail Road for FIVE years,
because the makers OF better articles cannot
afford to spend their money to bring their
trade to your notice while they have better
fields of operation. But you will object to this
that you have one Rail Road through the
county. The Chesapeake & Ohio Rail Road
| is not Rail Road in the sense of which | am
| speaking, it is not an artery leading through
and connecting the different parts OF the coun-
try, but it is only vein whose office 1t is to re-
turn the blood to the heart, and which acts as
drain to draw the money from its extremity
and cause it to flow to Richmond, nor will it
ever become great artery to Augusta County,
| when completed on an air line as it will be, the
| line through Augusta will becomea a mere side
line and while the Chesapeake & Ohio is OF
more Importance than any other line to the
general prosperity OF the State as great ar
terry of trade, yet it has not the local impor-
tance to Augusta County that the Valley Rall
Road has, even if it was equal. The expe-
rlence l have given above is fully demonstrated
that TWO Rail Roads are as much better than
one as one is better than none, indeed then
Importance rise In arithmetrical progression.
Then, citizens Of Augusta, be wise in time
do not be deceived by the whining of skin
flints and misers, too stingy to expend trih'
for their own good and the prosperity OF th
county. Let me refer you to an article in tn,
Valley Nrginian, of July 7th, where it