Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-07-04
GU2 RISING CITY.
MENICO, AUDRAIN COUNTY, MO.

Few, that visit our town have any
idea of the position, it is destined to
fill in the future. Pleasantly situated
in the midst of fertile and well cul-
tivated county, at the junction of the
st. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern,
and st. Louis, Alton, and Chicago
Railroads, Mexico makes favorable
impression on all that visit it. 1t is
easy to appreciate it as Il comfortable
place to live in. That crops out
everywhere. 1t is to be seen in
pleasant srects, cosy cottages, green
lawns and shaded front yards. 1t is
quite as easy to discover that Mexico
is prosperous mart and influential
commercial, industrial and political
centre. Our people are kind, our
merchants attentive, our lawyers civil,
our doctors aifablc, and our bankers
accommodating. Our stoFeS are fill
ed with goods and behind al d before
their counters stand accomplished
clerks ready to attend tO customers.
Saturday Is stock sales day and the
occasion on which our lively town b.
comes most animated. Then our
streets are throngcd with farmers,
our stores with patrons, and the cor
ncrs of the square with animals that
always find ready cash buyers at their
current value, all these things make
an excellent impression. Strangers
come and 90 and praise our town,
but who among them has Il full con
ccption of its future. Who looks
forward to graded and 'mac2daniZed
streets, or stores and houses rebuilt
with stone and brick Who forecasts
the time when gas shall illuminate,
when clear water shall spout from
artesian depths, when our vacant lots
shall be occupied with factories, our
medicinal spring become n place Of
fashionable resort, snd Our two roads
multiplied into innumerable CONNER
cial avenues, leading off into every
direction, a ld carrying with then. as
they run our varied products! Never
theless, there are those living that
shall behold all this and more. Not
to come up to the picture drawn will
be to be left behind. The town in
this country that does not accomplish
all that has been enumerated within n
single generation finds itself distanc-
ed in the race of compctI-
ton. and subsidies into a dreaming
Rip Van Wrinkle. We have no such
fears for Mexico, already strangers il
they would but pause to reflect might
discover indications of what it is to
be. They can he seen in the highly APP
proved style of building that has been
| introduced in our new bank and jail.
/ They might be found in the improve
ments going on at the Ringo, and
upon that handsome specimen Of
architecture that adorns the centre of
the public square, our Court House.
But il is not with our future city that
we have to deal, it is our present
cosey, thriving, busy, rising town
that we propose to anaIize.
The imports and exports of MeXl-
co exceed two millions annually, and
its industries amount, within the same
period, to over half million OF dol
| lars.
This large and lucrative trade IS
participated in principally by our dry
goods, grocery and hardware houses
but our drug, fancy, hide furniture
and saddelry, and boot and shoe
stores and other industries obtain no
small portion of it.
The dry goods and grocery busi-
nesses absorb over halt mlilion'
which is divied among the following
firms:
DRY GOODS.
Ricketts, & Emmons, W. w. Har'
nor NJ Blum & Son, J. D. Morris
4 Co., Reed & Nelson, George hao-
rich.
GROCERIES.
Jas, M. Bush, w. A. Morris, t.