The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-12
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Tho Bn'Inesa BOOm over nj GAINESVILLE.
Enterprise OF yesterday.
The tidal wave Of prosperity has reach
ed GAINESVILLE. The cry OF hard times has
been growing smaller by degrees and beau
tifully less, and our people have for two
or three months past felt that the pressure
is over, An Enterprise reporter this week
visited the leading merchants in several
lines OF trade, with n view to a%scertaininG
the per cent Of increase this summer over
last. There arc two or three branches Of
business IN which there has been no per-
Ceptible change. The drug business does
not depend upon the state OF the times.
People must have drugs, no matter Il the
times are hard, and nobody is fond enough
Of them to buy because times are good.
This is also true OF the retail grocery bust.
ness. Groceries are neceFSaries, and peo-
pie must have them. In this line also
there has also been great competition here
within q year past, and the business is
consequently very little better than it was
a year ago. But in all other lines there
has been q marked increase, rs shown be-
low.
j. BradAeId 4 Sons report their trade
for tho months Of June, July and August
nine per cent. better than for the CORES.
pondfng months last year. This is one Of
the Oldest and rgest houses in town, and
their trade for years has been so great that
a very large increase was not possible.
Buchanan & Moore, leather and saddle
ry hardware, report their trade twelve per
cent. better than last summer, with the
price Of goods as low, il not lower, than
last year.
W. II. Anderson, merchant tailor, re.
ports his trade for the summer months as
twenty and three.fOurths per cent. better
than for the corresponding months OF last
year. Last year all his hands were three
weeks without work, but this year the
prospect is that there will be no stoppage.
Hibbard 4 Dent, dry goods and mer-
chant tailors, report their trade as from
fifteen totwenty per cent better than last
year. Like all other merchants, they say
the cash sales are prop~ortionately much
larger this year than last.
Mr.. MGKeever, Of the firm OF John Nc.
Keever 4 Son, is absent, and his clerk
could not give the actual per cent OF in
crease. He is satisfied, however, that
business is twenty-five per cent better than
last year.
tn A. Rogers, hardware, report sales
for this summer twenty-five per cent great
er than Tor last summer
r. NJ. Cunning, saddlery, trunks, &C.,
says that his books show IN increase in
his sales of t~wenty-three per cent over last
summer.
S. G. EIilles & Bro, millers, say their
business is fifteen percent better than last
summer, and they are paying ten cents a
bushel more for wheat.
R: G~amenthaler, jeweler, reports that
the business OF repairing watches, &C., is
at least fifty per cent better than for Inst
summer, while his sale OF watches, clocks
and jewelry have more than doubled.
Maring Bros, boots and shoes, report an
increase OF at least twenty-five per cent
over last summer. Their cash receipts
this year are more than their total sales
last year.
G.. T. Little, wagons, thirty-three per
cent increase.
G. kugler, planning mill and maChins
shop; I. ". Hubbard, furniture, and ]. T,
Moore, groceries, q%ueensware, &C., report
their business twenty-five per cent better
than last summer.
Watt Bros. Foundry report business
improving, and much better than last
year.
A. Kelly, dealer in saddles and harness,
says his business for three months has
been fully twenty-five per cent better than
in the same time last year. Then he had
scarcely anything to do; now he is rushed
with work.
j. NJ. Lewis, wholesale grocer, reports
his business ut least twenty-five per cent
better than last summer.
VIM Reed & Son, boots and shoes, and
W. F. Janeway, stoves and tinware, were
unable 10 give the exact increase, but are
sure it is more than fifteen per cent.
Gratigny 4 Judkins, boots and shoes,
report m increase in their business OF
over ten per cent.
Many other merchants were visited who
could not tell the actual increase, but all,
with a single exception, say that business
is better with them than last year.
Various other indications point to the
fact that good times are at hand. There is
a demand for labor, and no man who is
willing to work at living wages need be
idle. The Coal Shaft and the Coffin
Works have been taken from the hands OF
the Sheriff and are now working. The
Children's Home, the new School House
and the new Planning Mill will keep many
men employed in their construction. The.
atrical entertainments, shows, fairs, re-
unions, and all classes OF amusements are
better p~atronized than formerly, showing
that ~ people have money to spend over
and above living expenses. In short, 1t
may be said that trade in the necessaries
OF life holds its own, while business in
such articles as are comparatively luxurles
is steadily and largely on the increase.
BeIlaire business News,