The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-09-30
Hiohman--Onr Town ana our

Hickmah--Our Town and our
Paper.
IhiS morning we salute the public
with the DAILY HICKMAN CoURIaR.
trusting that it may be received by our
enterprlsing population in that generous
and ladulgent spirit which has ever char
aeterzed their relations to its publisher.
Ine business, interest and importance of
the town of Hickman demands such n
medium, through which our people and
their commerce may hold converse with
the outer world, and thereby assist in
improving whatever advantageous points
OF trade We may possess, and also of
helping to remedy such disadvantages as
may surround us. Such, briefly, is our
only object, aim and purpose.
OUR COMMERCIAL INTEREST.
There are few towns in the West of the
size Of Hickman which enjoys so large a
trade, and the trade of which extends
over so large a district of country. This
fact has compelled our merchants to
stocks fully equal to the investments Of
feszssaes city merchants, wa PER conse-
qaence to Be classed as traders in compe-
ti,ioa with Nashville, Evansville, Cairo,
Paducah and Memphis. That Hickman
is worthy the Classification is attested by
the large trade which yearly pours its
products into our markets, from Obion,
Dyer, Weekly, Hickmap, Fulton, Graves
and portions of Carol and Gibson coun-
ties. We submit as a fact, and not as
mere idle assertion, that bills Of Groce-
ries, Hardware, Furniture, Liquors and
Cigars, and Dry Goods in quantity, that
Hickman will duplicate ST. Louis and
Cincinnati prices with only freight added.
In the retail trade, we think it fact
that our merchants, generally, sell even
cheaper, than the retail dealers of the
cities, except perhaps on specialties.-
What We greatly need is more capitol,
more energy, more public spirit, and more
outlets, through which not only to build
up but 20 retain trade.
oUR MANUFACTURES AND MAEUFACTU-
RING.
We have time and again alluded to
Hickman as a manufacturing point, and
sincerely believe this the keynote to pros
perity. Towns founded upon manufac-
turing wealth can look with no feeling Of
envy toward tax ridden RAILROAD cen
tres" whose chief trade is beefsteak and
coffee per transients. That manufactu-
ring would prove successful here Is evil
dent from the abundance and convenience
Of the materials out of which manufac-
tuIed goods are to be made. These ma
terials are often bought here in the rough
state and shipped to distant ports, where
they are manufactured and reshipped to
this very section, for sale. Why these
same manufactures would not pay right
here when the material Is so abundant
and accessible, can not be answered.
We have timber of the very best kind
for all sorts of wood manufactures, cot
ton within easy reach, wool, etc, etc.
Our shipping facilities by river and rail
are already good, our location excellent,
climate pleasant, and the health of the
section as fine as any in the Mississippi
Valley.
We have now two steam manufaosu
ring establishments, the Hickman Steam
Wagon Works, and Oswold's Steam
Furniture Factory. Their work challeu
ges competition from any quarter, and are
the pride and admiration of Hickman.
OUTLETS, RIVER AND RAILROADS.
Hickman bases her condition and fu-
ture upon no high drawn prospect of the
accidental Capitalization of q network of
rail roads, but present to the trading
world only such advantages as we really
have. The Mississippi river and Nash
Vile rnd Northwestern Railroad, are ex-
istiug, permanent facts, and will well an
swer the business demand of manufac-
lures. tits considered probably, and by
some certain, that We will obtain branch !
of the Iron Mountain, and also one of
the proposed roads leading southward.-
the building of the levee and road from
here to Tiptonville and New Madrid is
only question of time, and we are hope
full will be accomplished next year.
Hickman is compelled to a steady |
prosperity and if our people will by a |
proper exhibition of public spirit, push |
on the car with energy, industry, and en-
terprise, the day is not far distant, when
our long cherished hopes of a "big town"
will be realized. That such may be the
Iature, is the sincere wish of
THE DAILY HICKMAN COURIER.