The New York herald., 1879-09-20


year while down there; they raised four or five
RICE GROWING As A FINE ART.
Mr. Brigham went on to explain to tho reporter,
while the merchant left his desk for few minutes,
the rice crop had already been stripped in good
earlier than that for harvesting cotton. He de-
scribed the way in which rice plantation. which
was necessarily made near body OF water. was cut
into squares divided by canals, into which the flow
OF water regulated by gate At certain seasons
tue whole niaton was overfowod. the tide being
naturally higher than the land level. There
fresh water in the river twelve miles below
Savannah ordinarily, but when the supply OF fresh
mp stream within four miles of the city The
squares OF rice were planted at successive times
that they might be harvested inithe same rotation
necessary to cut the crop ut just such STAGE
Planters had not time to remove the rice soon
cut but forced TO stack it until the entire crop
had been harvested or the canals he said there
usually central one into which the others led, and
stacks of rice upon floats drawing two three feet
OF water, which were then propelled down the main
canal to the storehouse.
HOPE IN ALL QUARTERS.
Mr.. Thurber. returning. broke in-"To speak
more especially OF the prospects OF trade in New
York city. ! have never seen it start early and
keep up strongly from every part of the country
meet men from every section aud make 1t point
talk with them about the condition of things at
their homes. was talking this morning with gen-
tlemen from Michigan Ohio and Dakota Territory,
and like those from other sections that have con-
Yersed WITH they say, with few exceptions, that
good times are smiling ON them. Seldom this fall
have seen man put up bad face, and then gen.
existing in his Immediate locality. not
from general complaint. Talking with me of our
iron men yesterday he said to me:'The only trouble
is we are rushing up prices too fast That is the
drawback Within month there will be more fur
naces in blast than there ever were before in the
United States ut one time. know two men from
Ohio who own furnace that has been out OF blast
for five years. Now they have been refining it. and
are prepared to 80 ahead. They will make money
out OF it, too. tell you this Improvement is per-
neating every part and portion Of the country.
Look at the lumber trade; the prices going up.
OBSTRUCTION OF TIMBER LAND.
Well. our pine lumber is not going up" said Mr.
Brigham. "There is too much OF it. It Is being
cut too fast. The timber in Georgia has been
stripped from the vicinity OF streams when there
gard to inevitable time of reckoning. Lumber
men are not making a sufficient profit either There
continues for ten years from it will be almost
impossible to get mast piece from the Georgia
forests ninety feet long,
81 know q hrm III Pensacola said Mr.. Thurber,
"whom knew to be making money, one OF them
furnishing the capital the other experimenting the
work OF shipping timber to England. They couldn't
Iute agree upon the proper distribution of profits
and asked me to arbitrats the case. Ny. aston,sh-
ment was great to find that they making from
Sll 900 to $4,000 year.
'wihout much capital. either. supposeY' said
We'll, the elder member Of the Arm had $4,000
invested. All these things, Mr.. Thurber continued,
together with the wheat and corn crops OF the West
making us rich. was asking an Ohio
dollar, said he. and SUPPOSE the farmers
The result of my observation il the everywhere
Dealers in cotton rubber, WOOL corn, wheat, lumber
suppose he said. addressing Mr. brigham THAT
some OF tho cotton mills were pinched by their re-
cent heavy purchaser"
on the future. supply and demand have little to do
with it, The price OF cotton rs IN the power OF
MIR. soLoMoNs ADVICE.
Mr.. Brigham took his leave and Mr.. Thurber
summed up the conversation. saying THE traces
hearts Of business men in the sure dawn OF pros.
perity. Mr.. solomon (Mr. solomon comes from
Georga) remarked TO me. quite pithily thought,
"A person who can't make money this fall ought to
90 out of business forever"
II suppose" said the reporter, 'that the rush Of
wholesale trade is nearly overY
NO said Mr. Thurber. ''the demand for goods
the whole becomes gradual. reaching up to Deosm-
Der. The Far South trade begins in August Then
little further north Our Northern states don't
commence their trade with New York much before
September. To-day our business comes mostly from
the Northern trade September. October aud Novsm-
Der are the best months.'
THE DRY GOODS TRADE.
The great Wholesale dry goods houses are In the
food OF prosperity. From early morning until late
ut night the effect OF the abundant condition of the
country is most clearly marked In them aud any
casual observer may easily notice they are in the
very heat of an unus ualy good season Buyers and
sellers crowd on another in the lanes be-
tween the piles of merchandise in these vast
Streams of men and boys with here and there lady.
there is much shaking Of hands and pleasant
recognition and general atmosphere Of satisfac-
tion. The salesman is coatless and smiling; quick
in movement, with eager eye and n ready pencil
between his fingers lie is city inan and his man
his i. friend M Ia visitor t by the contrast The methods
OF the stranger well as his appearance the op
posite of the cifsrvescng, vendor. Caution guides
every act OF the provincial merchant. He is slow to
choose and careful as to what he selects. con-
tinual indecision hangs upon his judgment. How
much or how little Is ever trembling in the balance
and the remembrance of pay day frequently do
termnes the quantity and variety.
81 never knew such times, sal Of the leading
statesmen in one of the best known houses yesterday
10 reporter. "Thc city is full OF buyers and bus-
ness IL rushing. We are worked night and day and
when IT'S all over we shall want some rest during
the day we have to be in the warehouse to the
customers and serve them with what they want and
then little of what they don't aud during the
ing we take them around and show them the town.
It's hard work, can tell you. and keeps man
pouring out. See all these trucks loaded down.
Now it will take till midnight to get sales to-day
here from all the country, and
they have been coming and going like that since
Of it, have Apa s saS
that have not soen before in three years."
chow does that happeny'
"Ihey have the money to travel now, aud they
come to town 1t was merely matter Of economy
with them. They said they could not AFFORD the
money-that Is, to spend it--and they renamed
at home. Now things different. The boom is
bouncing right along. and so are they. The whole
country is tecming with money, and now they re
letting it fly. Why. have seen men here this sum.
mer scattering dollars around that heretofore
wouldn't ride III the stages IL they had to pay
their own fares. While they on here, you know
we do most of the treating. When say ''we'
mean the drummers and statesmen. II they want
to 20 about. which most OF them do, we take 'em
and pay the piper That is mostly how make
our trade. You see u mans trade--that is the
amount of business he control or attract to q
housc-inakcs tho estimate of his value. Some of
the big guns have relatives. friends or connections
in town and 20 of to them, to the homes of the
heads of the houses. but the regular army falls
us, aud we do the best we can for them
How do you account for this sudden improve
ment in businessY'
"It is not sudden; oh. no; nothing of the kind.
That's q mistake. 1t came along gradually and has
attained healthy strength. II commenced last
spring and has been growing since. Not but that
it rapidly TO the present level. Oh. yes,
tainly; but Il was bound to come. We have had four
years of suffering. Why, sir, there lots of
who had been drinking champagne for years couldn't
get beer tor much of that time. Now it's all right
agan--the sparkling's come back again and the
pleasant music of the flying corks is once more in