Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-04-07
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

The Weather-Business-T Wheat Mar
ket - Building The Wholesale Trade
John V. FarweII e. Col. w. GriswOId
81 CO.-Gage Brothers 81 Co.-The Leeis-
lature.
CHICAGO, March %, 187O.-Cool weather
the past week, Notwithstanding a heavy
thunder shower, Wednesday night, has re-
tarded vegetation, and kept back bud and
blossom. Still the season is much earlier
than last year. We have pansies Powered
in the open air, and early peas are just
creeping into the light.
BUSINESS
is becoming quite active, and the prospects
of an increased trade are improving. Prices
of most classes of goods rule little lower
than last year.
THE WHEAT MARKET
has been little excited, No. 2 fresh bring
ing $1.27, and sales for the last half of April
making 81 .284 which shows confidence in
rising market.
is abundant, the demand for it waiting the
opening of navigation.
BUILDING.
From the reports of our city architects,
contracts have been made for building, the
present season, to the amount of over three
million dollars.
THE WHOLESALE TRADE
10 IlOIS dCGlNC GHdn Vic T0Gdll GTduS, anu
merchants from the whole Northwest are
making our streets, hotels and stores lively
with their presence. Spring styles are be-
ginning to make their appearance. But the
liveliest locality l have yet seen is in the
great wholesale dry goods house of
JOHN V. FARwELL & CO.,
whose statesmen, clerks and employees make
a good sized regiment, perform their duties
with the promptness and efficiency of dis
i -
ing house of the West.
j. W. GRIswOLD CO., 48 AND so WABASH
AVENUE,
are now opening the largest and most fash
ionable stock of spring cloaks, cloakings,
trimmings, laces, and especially ladies' SuttS
ever offered the trade of the Northwest.
They lead in matters of taste, and distance
all competitors in the wholesale cloak trade.
The largest wholesale millinery house in
this city, devoted exclusively to the sale of
Head Gear, is the firm of
GAGE BROTHERS CO.,
Importers, Manufacturers and Jobbers of
Millinery Goods, rs Lake street, UP STAIRS,
celebrated all over the Northwest for their
large, well-selected and fashionable stock, al
ways fresh and attractive, and of the latest
styles. Other millinery houses swell the
amount of their sales, by keeping depart
ments for notions and furnishing goods, but
InlS mouse sells OF I1edu O6dr alone, U0f6e
quarters of a million dollars worth year.
They are large manufacturers, having in addi-
ton to their mandatory of hats and hat
frames, of which I wrote last year, hundred
girls at work making cactus, hair and fancy
braid hats, which enable them to supply job
bers, at Eastern manufacturers prices, and to
offer unusual inducements to retail dealers.
The milliners of the Northwest will here
find the most desirable goods for the r trade,
of every conceivable fashionable style, at
the lowest prices. GAGE BROTHERS & Co. are
authority in matters of fashion and taste,
and what they cannot supply the trade in
the millinery line is scarcely worth looking
for. They are among the most substantial
and responsible houses in this city, and have
built up an immense trade in Head Apparel,
by using their abundant means, in the most
sagacious manner, to produce and procure
the best goods at the lowest prices, by cour-
tesy, urbanity, prompt'aeSs In filling orders,
and by giving their customers the benefit of
their capital, skill and experience
THE LEGISLATURE
has been invited to hold its adjourned ses-
sion in this city and declined. People are
beginning to lose faith in Legislatures gen
orally, and in this one in particular. 1t
began its sessions with good promises and
inspired sanguine hopes, but its perform
ances, thus far, have not met the public ex-
pectation.
There is nothing new in amusements or in
daily city life. B.