Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-11
From the New York Sun, Sept. 30.
TRADE REALLY REVIVING.

A reporter called on A. T.. Stewart 4 Co.
and II. B. CIafin q Co., yesterday to get in
side information, if possible, as to the revival
of trade. 1t was, freely given in both cases.
There is very great improvement" said
MI. Clahin. "The store, crowded as it .ap-
pears to be to day, is thin in comparison with
last week. You see this is Saturday. and the
last of the week. The city is full of buyers-.
mainly from the South and West. am con-
fident that we have all touched bottom, struck
hsrdpsn ;any change had to be for the better.
There is q. decided change. The hulk OF
goods moving now is vastly in excess Of that
Of last year. To be sure, prices are lover.
and it takes more yards to come to thousand
dollars but the demand is greater, and eve
rybody feels better. :, The print market is
about the weakest spot there is. Prices paid
here are too high, and prices got on the other
side are too low. Last year they ran the
price up to Eve and three-eighths cents, Then,
it fell of. The commission houses are we'll
loaded with prints. So are the mills, though
these, as yet, continue to run. They are talk
ing Of stopping at Fall River in O. fortnight,
Ifthey do, it will lessen the supply and help
the market, Bot, leaving out the print aues.
tion, business in general is very greatly i'm
proved, and will go right on better and better.
There is an easy feeling and everybody seems
kindly disposed. Look at the enormous crops
West and South. There never. was anything
like it" ,.',,. M -. ..... f,.,,n, moi, .,,!,er
Reporter: "Are your Southern customers
the old set" ~. .,yr. "a. =. ...f lrns, '...
Mr.. ClaAin "Some are, but there are
great many new men. The cotton crop 10
very large and they feel very secure. They
get some credit, but they have the cash and
of course prefer to buy for cash. It makes
all parties contented. Then, too, the polisi.
cal situation is better, and the prospect of
specie resumption is bright" .sr.o 2uiluau.
Reporter: "By the aid of the banks?' ,aqtr
Mr.. ClaAin. "Well, partly that. but the
government itself is strong, and the return, is
by no meaus distant contingency. The war
on the other side creates q demand for our,
breadstufs. Export is large q, import COM
paratively small. The balance ,avors u.s., the
crops s.,s,r Us, and all things are working just
righ,I I .a.ink real estate is sympathizing in
this:;.s,s,st,p. That is to say, if you put real
estats this side Of Nineteenth street on. the
market. you can get an offer for it, and that's
something that couldn't have been done three
months ago" %. via, rgG.. ya.z-- .i,.u1. ,,d-
The vast warehouse occupied by q. B.
Cafin and Co. was like beehive. Every
floor was thronged with purchasers. Express
wagons, drays and carts surrounded the place,
and porters were busy wheeling boxes from
the elevators to the sidewalks. s. .,a -.
In A. T. Stewart Il Co.'s downtown store
similar activity was found. All the clerks
were busy with customers, and an atmosphere
of hurry ind business pervaded the place. In
answer to request to give some facts in rels-
ton to the commercial revival, the firms rep
resentative said: ..... ,oaH.si2 O..
1--WE find not only a revival, but very
healthy revival. Both the South and the
West are here in great force, and trade is live
ly and brisk beyond belief. To some extent
our customers are new men, but very large
ly-noticeably so-they are the successors of
our old correspondents. They have passed
through the fire Of poverty, and they come to
US now with the added elements of industry
and economy, and with the wealth which
those indispensables insure. They have the
literal cash. To be sure there is more or less
credit, but, as rule, the goods are cash. As
for the old style of account, it is done away
With. In the old times accounts were never
settled. They ran from generation to gener-
alton. The cotton crop was always mortgaged
far ahead, and notes of twelve, twenty. four
and thirty.six months time were common as
sets. All that is ended. We deal with the
South now as with other sections. and they
reap. as We do, the benefit of it. The change
is great and healthy. They feel assured now
that no political issue will annoy or embar-
rass them. And the negro has taken bis