The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-08
BETTER TIMES.

st. Louis Daily Journal
"Papers throughout the country are
talking about returning prosperity as
If our merchants and manufacturers
were living in hopes of future business
upon which to make up the short-com-
ings of the past four years. 1t only
shows they are not posted in what is go
ing on about them, and that they depend
for their information upon the fiimsiest
kind of rumors, Let them get up from
their desks, drop their exchanges, go out
upon the streets and mingle with bust
ness men for Il week, and they will tell
you to man that we are in the midst of
business such as has not been seen
since the palmiest days of the great in
fiation period. Such is the condition of
affairs in St. Louis to-day, and hundred
of our best houses are crowded with or
ders TO an extent not known since the
panic of 1878. One of our large manu-
featuring establishments, day or two
since, said to the writer "What is the
use for us to advertise ?" We are $780,
600 behind our orders now on this month
alone. We have been running to our
full capacity for months past in antici-
patton of heavy fall trade, but never
looked for the amount of business already
in" Another says: "OrClers have come
in on us far beyond our capacity, and it
will take us to January 1st to fill what
are now in. If they continue to come
we will be compelled to double our ca
pacity early next year" For sixty days
every prominent wholesale house in the
city has had all it could do to attend to
the wants of customers, working early
and late TO do il. Men who have hereto
fore waited to be visited by 'drummers'
have come in themselves earlier than
they were in the habit of buying other
seasons, and have bought far in excess of
their usual quota of goods for the past
four years. This shows conclusivelY
two things. First, that new era of
prosperity is upon the whole west, prob
ably brought about by abundant har-
vests, in anticipation of which these pur-
chases are made. Second, that when i'm
portant transactions are to be made it is
desirable to come in personal contact
with the jobber. This feeling is grow
ing latterly, and in few short years will
be the rule-"drummers" the exception.
Late information in the iron business
is equally cheering, and within the next
thirty days II is expected four of the fur
naces in Carondelet will be in full blast.
The leasing of one of the Missouri fur
naces to the Joliet iron works was the
initial step in this direction. The stiff.
ening of price in the general market may
be the stimuious for opening others, but
of this we are not positively informed,
although it is certain a better feeling
prevails with regard to this important
industry In the near future
"Nor is this condition of things con-
fined to St. Louis. The best informed
authorities of other trade centers show
1t TO be general and real, instead of local
or imaginary.
THE reports from New York are to
the effect that the present drain of the
market will allow manufacturers of fab
RIGS whose mills have long been closed to
reopen and go on to prosperity as in for
mer times. Boston and Philadelphia
are far exceeding their sale of late years,
and even Chicago reports flood, not on
-1y In mercantile but in manufacturing
lines. The result may not be felt at
once at the surface, but with it all must
come the demand for labor, and with this
will cease the cry of hard times. The
day for hard time croakers has gone by,
or must at least be confined in the future
TO class of men whose lack of enter
prise does not commend them to gener-
al favor.