Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-01

ing all that trade, Is they afford equal adj
Vantages, II not greater, than AMI MOTH
efn house. We protAise also bS aDte IN
. short time 20 supply the demand for
latbes and ahfuRies. We have factories
turning out these articles in very superior
style and at low prices.
OarsDrV Docks suffered a misfortune
daring the year by tbs sinking OF Two
sections which were subsequently recov-
cred at an expense Of seven or eight thou
and dollars There is very little busi-
nEss doing there ct present, though tne
means for repairing Is as great as ever.
The total number Of steamboats, arrived
and departed during the past year was
1875. The trsfic of our ferry companies
has increased twenty per cent. THIS -
due to the trade with Little Rock n she
increased dow Of produce from the adj
inIning counties oyer in AIkausR-
Our trade Ia fish, game and oysters has
gone on increasing with q rapidity that
speaks we'll for the correct gastrHnomieal
taste of Memphians. During the winter
an immense quantity of I'll sorts OF game
came hare rom Arkansas and the .coun-
ties adjoining the river In this state
while turtle and all sorts of she'll hsh
came in abundance from the direction OF
the Cult. A ready market was found
during the whole season fer these AZ v5rK.
remunerativa prices. at pEesent~eh have
two great dspOts for this sort Of produce
IN Edwards & Holbrook. on Second, q
Victor D. Fuchs, on Jefferson.
In the matter Of ice we were much bet
ter of than during any summer since the
per pound. The supply WIS
The wants of the city in this hne were
supplied by two ice companies, who did q
rushinr business. The consumptlUn
equsieC twenty tor per day during the
excessively hot weather.
A nett business in Memphis, that has
grown INTO Importance during the pest
year, is that of staining glass for CHURCHES
and halt doors, and places OF public resort
There Is one factory il the city s9r the
/ manufacture OF this article which does 8
tair business The proprietor Of this far
tory finds his chief pstronsgs among q
church people.
SDeaklug of churches, 1t may not be
ana1ss to state Inst thers ara forty ofthem
in the city, including two s~ynsgogues.
Three new ones have been opened during
the past. yesr.
The demand for furniture continues .
increase. Instead OF diminishing. Those
who make furniture are Iaboring under
difficulties u not being able to get up ia
! CITIES Tor the mu1e extensive manufac-
turs G that article. The dsaiers do q good
business, and get their wares principally
from tie East. The demand for furniture
I A1CA0 . LAC liz 0H D.
The namber Of houses in the city OF
Memphis, at p~resentis 5000; OF these Isl ,
are merely business houses, leaving $40
dwelling houses. This is excessive of
| the eountIsrs number of shantiss occupied
! BY coIor6d and some poor understanding
men. that cover some of U suburbs.
Owing TO the eCsnt law in r. lpect to d.
rect Importation and / fnding goods there
ere numta 81 OF houses in the city which
DO & large business IL foreign articles of
common use. Amongthem may be named
! China-wsrs and queensware, of which
great quantitiCJ0 IS through the hands
Of our MEMPHIS dealers. In the
mattsr Of ale and porter there ls
in the Quantity imported. There is now
a gansIa al demand for those healthy and
inVsqo. ting foreign liquors. Three or four
houses IN the city do a large busln 8 IN
this line. Thsrs is a new rect4tying IS
tsblishment in operation in the city or
Madison street. Also q new tobaco iae
tory on the c)Tner Of W h1ngton ano
Main, employing twenty-five hsnds.
WehaVe made a few steps rWa IN
the Wholesale drug business, Our drug
houses now do an immense trade with the
surrounding country, owing to tho tact
that most OF our leading firms have bent
their energies to get Rp a successful com
petition With dealers in the East. IL Is 3
fact that the "bisters" most commonly
used down the Valley OF the MISSISSIPPI
1 and those most highly valued are Of Ten
nessee Manufacture, and the principal part
OF them are shipI3 ID by Memphis firms.
Wa have two iaundHies in operation IN
the CITY. Il ives found that the host of
coIored wssherWomen who fit through
| ctr streets from Friday to Monday eVe-
niugs were not c0mp5tsnt 10 Cleanse al
the linen OF the constantly increasing
NJ sts Of Young men that come here TO 40
business hence the establishment of
! lsund-ies, These are doing a FIST rate
business and give ss,isfacston. q
It ia quite impossible, under the present
svztsm. which is no system, to gather
| Trustworthy statistics OF MeIlphis manu-
f~actures or d~ateEnine accurately the pro-
zress Of manufacturing establishment =
The Chamber Of Commerce has a stand
ing COMMITTEES whose duty it is TO report
monthly. in reference to The number and
enlargenisnt and increased productive
ness Of thCJe institutions, This commit
tee has failed pe.sistently TO make its re-
1rts. and the only ecour lei, us is
that to which we nave be9n ofte1 in
debsed for crude general estimates
given a. the close OF each ye r
by the msnsgers Of mAnuflctuiIng SLAP
lishmentR, it hs9 thus ulte 1 that pub
lished annual rep1rt3 mile by the press
or by the Chamber of Commerce give only
vague statements made the prOprietors OF
tbess ab1des of industry. L. is neverthe-
less pa!nable enough TO the dulle5t or
server thes the number of manufsctoriei
f the simpler soT6 is a~ngmentsd viii
great rspidity.
The first steps have been taken by an
active. entsrplising 2 Jpulstlon in tbs path
Of true, sslG-sustsining and enduring pros
peritY. More costly, complex systems OF
manufacturing ildustrY, requiring grea.
density OF population and greater aC3G-
mutations Of cspisal speedily follow the se
prscuI oIs OF the coming solid greatn ,
OF Memphis For this reason we & 'ntem-
plate ths facts sven in the pTeo. ding
stateuent with r1mixed sstisfactio n. II
is hardly to t. expected that Memphis
could bseome at onc3 a manu- lctU ing 81
well aza commercial emf Jlium. Wealth
must d15t bs sf3uLnulated, and railway
must gather IN the raw material. Those
c)nditions precedent 10 iHdustI-s al great
ness win soon exist, and then raw cotton
VII constitute only q single element
among many sources OF oundiess PTos-
perity.
The railway system of Memphis is rap
idly perfected. The war, ruinous in its
q effects upon the prohtsbleness or al
Southern roads. staggered popular conh-
dence in such Investments, and the PEG
pie have t3en slowly and with dlthculty
iaduced 10 re- emb3rk their wealth in en-
terprises OF this character. Recently,
however, the necessity imposed by the
progress Of rival cities which prof. )sed to
absorb the wealth OF the whole country
Patually tributary to the pro operity OF
Melnphi@ has caused a renewal OF me
spirit that, in 1850, gave new life and sud.
cen impetus 10 progress IN Westth ana
population. It Is only needfuI in This re-
! port 10 speak OF enterprises that have
been iDaugurated, that our readers abroad
may COMPREHEND the commercial pur-
poses of those who toll to a~ggrandize the
city aaA have some correct apprehension
Of is mtare fortunes.
THE ORIGINAL SYSTEM.
The four drst roads planned and con-
structed were directed toward the
four cardinal points of the compass.
The Memphis and Charleston road givCl
Memphis direct access to the Atlantic
coast, and though designed TO furnish a
speedv rOube TO Charleston and Savannah
it has become by its connections through
Eastern Tennessee a most popular route
to. Baltimore, New York and Boston.
Double dsiIy passenger and freight trains
TO and from these Eastern cities leave
and enter Memphis. The NoEthern road
direct TO Louisville finds in the Memphis
and Charleston a rival Tor bnfOuSn
freights snd travel, while the business Of
this louisville road has become enor-
nous it has increased one hundred fold
the original trade between Memphis and
cities on the Ohio river, and developed a
degree of wealth in countries and tow MS
north of Memphis constantly augmented,
and will soon make this Western district
Of Tennessee. the richest and most dense
" populated agricultural region of the
South. The crops for b current year
along the route Of this road were never
more abundant. and no railway in the
country il more wisely managed or in a
more prosperous condition. The consoli,
datiop of the roads between Memphis and