Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-24
BUSINESS PROSPECTS.
Increasing -1cttUity IN Trade and Manu.
... fNctWreS IN Minnesota. .z.. 4"

Increasing Activity IN Trade and Manu.
..... tHctwres in Minnesota.
Z st. Paul Correspondence New York Times
1t is somewhat early to attempt to deter
mine from the condition of actual orders
the prospect of trade and manufactures in
Minnesota for the coming season. This
much is certain, however, that all branches of
sound business are exceptionally prosperous,
as the result of two years rapid growth and
brisk demand, and are preparing for mate
rial increase in the amount of goods pro-
duced and handled in the coming season,
The partial failure in crops last year has had
less than the anticipated depressing effect
upon general business. The amount
of the grain crop handled was not
diminished in the same proportion
as the quality was deteriorated, consequently
the machinery of distribution and manufac-
ture has been kept actively employed, though
the gains of producers have been less. The
tide of emigration that set in after the fertile
year of 1877 continued to flow last season,
and is not yet checked, while its stimulus to
general business increases as immigrants be-
come permanent residents and producers. The
disappointment of the bad harvest last year
has reacted, in natural enough way, to the
advantage of this springs jobbing trade.
Country dealers who failed to send the usual
large orders last falls, anticipating smaller
sales during the winter owing to the failure
of crops, have exhausted IN many cases
their stocks, and are compelled to order
earlier and more abundantly than usual this
spring. ;a.ar 4aa,u ~, .u
St. Paul jobbers find this feature in their
trade, as compared with those in large east
orn Cities with q
comparatively short distance of most of
thelr customers makes their, trade steadier
throughout the year, frequent small orders
taking the place of heavier orders in tho
spring and fall. The purely local iobbinp
trade is small, St Paul houses sending most
OF their goods 10 retail dealers in the vast
AND rapidly developing country northwest of
here, as far as Manitoba to the north, and
the remotest frontier posts in Montana to
toe west. There are two great wholesale
dry goods houses, one doing an annual
business of S4,OO0, OOO three leading gro
Gerry houses, whose aggregate trade amounts
to the same SUM; boot and shoe houses with
trade of $4,000, 900, and jobbers in hard
ware, hats and caps, and other articles nee
essary to the furnishing of the general coun-
try stores, which constitute the mass of Gus
tom tributary to this city. These report in
general terms that trade for the last two
years is fully up to that of previous years IN
money value. Taking into account the de-
probation of goods, this signifies an increase
OF ~ to 80 per cent. in the bulk handled.
Statistics published few weeks ago show
the wholesale trade of st. Paul in 1878 TO
to have been about $4,000, 900, an increase
of about $5,0O0,O00 over 1877. The hest
index to the coming seasons trade. in the
absence of actual statistics, is the expressed
expectation of merchants to repeat this gain
in 1879. CO.
Minneapolis is the manufacturing center.