The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-10-24
Are Good Times Coming.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer has been interviewing Lead
ing business meu OF New York re-
garding the present and prospective
situation, and gathers from their
opinions that the wave of coming
prosperity has reached New York.
For ten years there mas not been such
q rush OF business at the wholesale
houses as there has been this fail.
His story is as follows:
f.FOr the first time in ten years.
said Mr.. Libbey, of A. T. Stewart &
Co, 1--WE have had Tremendous
business sctivity, and have felt able
10 dictate terms tn the buyer"
IL is the sms, | find, with every
wholesale house in the city. The
coed crops for two years in the West
begin really for the first time To- effect
the East. First the Western farmers
ordsred supplies of their hOme mer-
chant, and now our wholesale houses
are flooded with orders.
"HoW do the times seem u you %
l asked Judge Hilton.
Prosperity has reached US from the
West" said the Judge. Wholesale
houses have not done sc much busi-
ness for years. The city is being
cleaned out Of goods. Tue West IS
buying IS it used TO sgsIc. This pros
perity seemed to strike the farmer
first, then the country merchant,
tbeu our dig wholesale houses, and
next it will strike our big mauufaetu-
ers, and lastly, the mechanics and ar
tisAns."
"D1 you hear from the West nova
DAYS ?p l asked Mr.. Clsh!n, whose
wholesale house ranks next to Stew
arts.
"Hear from the West !? l should
say We did. We are overrun with
orders. Our carts can't do the work.
A tremendous activity and prosperity
is upon US, and all New York will
feel IL within 80 days. Good times
are back again, but the people at-lsrge
won't feel them till tls fac ories start
up and the mechanics get to work
zRair, as they will as soon as the big
surplus Of manufactured goods is all
shipped to tAe West"
Tue shippers, too, are all happy on
account of she prosperous times One
hundred canal bOats, loaded with
wheat and corn, is the average ar
rival over the Erie Caual. These 100
boats are equal to 100 freight trains Of
20 cars each.
"Whst wheat IL it-thAt which you
are receiving now ?" 1 asked David
DoWs, the great wheat man.
''It is last years wheat. This yeST's
wheat is not in condition to ship yet.
Tbe summers wheat won't begin to
reach New York till December or
January, and the bulk or it will only
come with the early spring Dsvigs~
tiOn. II Is last yesr's crop that is
now bringing prosperity % the cOun-
try. This years wheat crop has been
at least 50, ,000, 900 bushels more than
last. The crop would hsve been So
600, 900 bushels over last year, IL Min
nesota had 'panned OUT as we ex-
pected she would. MinnesOts is now
shipping 40 OOO, 600 bushels, her last
years crop. Next year she will ship
20, 900 900 bushels Of this yesr's crop.
But Kansas will come in with her 80
600 900 raise1 this summer. N0twIth-
standing the failure In Minnesota,
we will nave J0,OOO,0O0 bushels more
OF wheat to ship next year than We
will have this year. When tAis
years second great crop strikes tho
seabOsrd il will bring 8 prosperity
which will effect real estate and in
crease all values. Il took four years
OF grasshoppers anu bad crops and
two 500, 0,OOe, 900 fires to cripple the
nation, and il will take at least two
good crops to set Us on our legs again.
The second OF these crops will not
strike the seabosrd, say, until next
spring then sir, look for good times
good old times :"