The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-11-30
L|VEL0U|SV|LLE.
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
Amount of Business of the CITY
Estimated at $1OO,OOO,OOO.

If there is one trait which characterize
Louisville business men, whether as bankers
merchants or manufacturers, more than snoth
CT, it is their character for honesty in deslin.
and patient determination to achieve success
by legitimate means While in many otbe,
cities the avenues of trade are crowded b,
men OF small capital and large pretensions
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-
!ation. Rascaity in business has never been
ata premium in Louisville; there is no room
for tho sharper to operate. Steady going
bankers look a'kance at the sleek, well-fed
fashionably dressed confidence man who pro-
poses to open An account and listen with icv
incredulity to bis plausible tale, and usually
send him to try lis fortune under more auspi.
'ious skies BY inquiring for bis 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,
Aessrs. Bamberger, Bloom & Co., Messrs
Carter, Bros. & Co., Messrs. j. M. Robinson
& Co., and Messra. Davis, Trsbue g. 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
specify few Of the prominent dealers, whose
long standing and deserved success mark them
as representative men in this important de-
partment of trade:
Aessrs. W. B. Belknap & Go. have been 80
long identified with the iron trade of Louis.
vile IS 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 "a .nv
house in the country.
Messra. Tarwster, Snyder & Rankins, i'm
porter' 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 n.tant
perforated cross'cut saws, Pierces superior au-
ger o'ts, Spruce's hand-cut files, Sycamore
Powder Company, Howe's counter and pl.t
form scales, Auburn Manufacturing Comp.nv
and American Screw Company,
John H. Thomas & Co., we'll known and
popular firm, are also importers and iobbers
q hardware and cutlery, and agents for the
,Saslo Scale Company and Parker's breach
'oaoA shotgun.
y. D. s>ssrs & Co., succe.sora IN H.,
e,la'et q o>,sssides being importers and
extensive dsslsh b.rdv,,o pu,,e.s, anu
sun'' are agents for sn>,.lebratsd h. B1,ds ao
q Sons and Juni.ta hor'e'<s.s and 8 q pnt.
nam & Go. and Norway" iron sa.. ~ ~ r iu'-
shoe nails. eo norse-
The trade of the above mentioned
extends West South and Southwest and t6e es
Is not a town or city in those sections where +
Eneir names are not familiar.
PLows AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS
The city Of Louisville is fast becoming IA.
nous - the seat Of several of the ].roest
MANUFACTURES of agricultural mschinerv in
he country. There is every reason whv tbi.
hould be so. The che.pness and superior
uslity of iron and coal would of itself ha o ;
efficient reason for the congregation of ,
arge number of iron manufacturers but when ,
bis fact is coupled with another equally i'm
ortant-that the mountains Of Kentucky ara :
'ch in the production of the best quality Of s
'h'te oak, which finds its natural market in t
'0u''ville-the importance of that point for d
be manufacture of machinery into which t
on ana OAK enter as the principal compo- t
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