The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-11-21
Our Own Reporter
Visits the City
of the Falls,
And Takes a Glance at
the Mercantile and
Manufacturing Els
Adjustments.
His Impressions of the Solid Growth
and Future Prosperity of
the Great Emporium of
Southern Trade.
THE MERCHANTS OF THE FALLS CITY.

The generous action of the city of Louis
vile in behalf of yellow fever sufferers, in
throwing wide open the doors to those who
we're driven from their homes and in refusing
20 quarantine against the fleeing refugees
from Southern cities, has brought that city
into favorable notice and gained for her the
lasting gratitude of the Southern people.
We have heard so much in praise of the
noble city that it has occurred to US to say
something of the advantages of Louisville as
8 mercantile and manufacturing center.
In pamphlet recently issued by the Blu
reau of Agriculture of the State of Ken
lucky, entitled "A General Account of the
Agricultural, Commercial and Mineral Re-
sources of the Commonweal of Kentucky"
the following just tribute is paid to Louis
vile:
at seems strange to say that State en-
dowed by nature with such immense agricul-
tural resources as Kentucky should, at the
same time be one of the most advantageously
located for mechanical and manufacturing
trades of any other equAl-sized territory on
the globe. Yet such is the fact, as the stats
tics of the raw materials climate, cheap fuels,
water power and centrality of position will
show Situated midway between the Gulf of
Mexico and Northern lakes, and also between
the eastern and western ranges OF the North
American mountains, Louisville, the largest
citv in the State becomes the focal point of
the great Mississippi valley. Here, by easy
water communication and railroad facilities,
can be concentrated the cheapest iron, coal,
hard timber as well AS cabinet timber, potters'
clay, kaolin, fire-clay, marble, photographic
stone fne-grAn building stone, cement, glass
sand, mari and hIOr spar to be found on the
continent"
With the advantages named here of course
the manufacturing facilities of Louisville are
very great, and while many of the resources
of the State have not been taken advantage
Of as they might be- and 'oitt be some day
not far distant, yet there is no city in the
West or South that can compete with Louis
vile in the price and quality of the goods
manufactured there. There is no kind of
machinery needed in our manufacturing busi-
ness. no implement wanted on our FARMS no
article that is needed in our kitchens and our
homes which is not made or sold in Louis
Vile as cheap as the same goods may be made
or found in any other city. A glance at the
map shows at once the geographical position
Of the CITY of the Falls and her superior ia
cilities for shipping goods to every portion of
the South. From her grand trunk railroad,
the Louisville and Nashville and Great South
ern, are scores of branches reaching out into
every section of the country below, while
dozen majestic steamboats, pillow the waters of
La Belle River, laden with freights and pas
sengers to and from the city.
How the city has grown since the war
And this reminds us that following close upon
the heels of the war, famine threatened many
portions of the crippled South. Then, as in
the recent emergency, Louisville established
Relief Commission, and dirided what she had
with those who were in want. There was no
room for her to grow in generosity, in benev-
olence, and in that sweetest of all graces,
charity. But there was room for the devel-
opment of her manufacturing facilities and
room for a commercial growth, AS is shown
by the results that have followed. From
so 900 inhabitants she has grown to 100000
IN less than sixteen years. No city in the
country has grown so fast. Any one who
mas not visited Louisville for ten or twelve
wears would fail TO recognize it as the same
place. Her streets have been extended, grand
massive bulldogs have been erected, public
improvements have been mSde, manufactures
have sprung up in every direction, and there
Is evidence of substantial prosperity every
where 1t was once but little more than
big village; nov it can boast of as fine
churches, as many school buildings and as
great educational facilities as any city in the
country.
The merchants and manufacturers ola Lou
isville are substantial business men. But
few failures ia business have occurred among
the principal business men of Louisville as
compared with other cities. The bankers and
merchants are careful, solid men who, though
liberal in their dealings with their customers,
are seldom led into unsafe speculations and
heavy losses, but, content with doing mod |
crate business, on q safe basis, they have
gradually established themselves on firm
and safe foundation.
The commercial interests of the South are
fully represented in Louisville. There Is no
article of merchandise needed in the South I
ern States that may not be had in Louisville /