The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-11-21
LIVE LOUISVILLE.
Our own Representative
Drops in on a Few
Business Houses,
Has a Brief Chat With the
PrOprietOrS,
And Makes a Note of His
Observations.
Amount of Business of the City
Estimated at $1OO,OOO,OOO.

If there is one trait which characterizes
Louisville business men, whether as bankers,
merchants or manufacturers, more than anoth-
er, it is their character for honesty in dealing
and patient determination to achieve success
by legitimate means. While in many other
cities the avenues of trade are crowded by
men OF small capital and large professions,
who are dependent upon favorable turn in
the wheel of fortune to bring about success,
the business of Louisville is largely controlled
by men who have by industry and integrity
built up their trade and know the value of
money too we'll to risk it in visionary specu-
lation. Rascality in business has never been
at premium in Louisville there is no room
for the sharper to operate. Steady going
bankers look askance at the sleek, well-fed,
fashionsbly dressed confidence man who pro-
poses to open an account, and listen with icy
incredulity to his plausible tale, and usually
send him to try his fortune under more auspi-
oious skies by inquiring for his collaterals.
THE DRY GOODS TRADE.
There are not in the Mississippi Valley four
firms whose character stand higher in all the
requirements of first class merchants than
those whose cards appear in our supplement,
Messrs. Bamberger, Bloom & Co., Messrs
Carter, Bros. Sc Co., Messrs. j. NJ Robinson
s. Co., and Messrs. Davis, Trabue & Co.
IRON AND HARDWARE.
We have given, on the first page of this
paper several important facts relative to
the iron trade of Louisville which will serve
as an introduction, and we will proceed to
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long standing and deserved success mark them
as representative men in this important de-
partment of trade:
Messrs. w. B. Belknap & Co. have been so
long identified with the iron trade of Louis
vile as to require only passing notice. The
house is on strong financial foundation, and
stands deservedly high in the estimation of
perhaps as large number of customers as any
house in the country.
Messrs. Tarwater, Snyder & Rankins, i'm
porters and jobbers of hard ware, are one of the
most enterprising and thoroughly reliable
firms in Louisville. They are agents for the
sale of DisstOn's circular and mill saws, patent
perforated cross-cut saws, Pierce's superior au
ger bits, Spruce's hand-cut files, Sycamore
Powder Company, Howes counter and plat
form scales, Auburn Manufacturing Company
and American Screw Company,
John II. Thomas s. Co., well known anC
popular firm, are also importers and jobber
of hardware and cutlery, and agents for tn,
Buffalo Scale Company and Parker's breach
loading shotgun.
@. j. Sievers s. Co., successors to Harvey
Girdler s. Co., besides being importers anC
extensive dealers in hardware, cutlery ant
guns, are agents for the celebrated II. Burder
s Sons and Juniata horseshoes and S. S. Put
nam s. Co. and Norway" iron forged horse
shoe nails.
The trade of the above mentioned house
extends West South and Southwest, and Their
is not town or city in those sections wher
their names are not familiar.
PLows AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
The city of Louisville is fast becoming is
nous as the seat of several of the larges
manufactures of agricultural machinery i
the country. There is every reason why thi
should be So The cheapness and superio
quality of iron and coal would of itself be
sufficient reason for the congregation of
large number of iron manufacturers. but whe
this fact is coupled with another equally in
portant-thst the mountains of Kentucky al
rich in the production of the best quality ,
white oak, which finds its natural market
Louisville-the Importance of that point fl
the manufacture of machinery into whic
iron and oak enter as the principal comp
nents, is quite well established