Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-17
CHICAGO.
FELIX" FIGURES ON THE BUSINESS
BOOM"
Big Crops and Big Foreign Demand the
Keynote Of PrOsperity-furiOds Har-
angue by the Fre-Chawing Editor
Of the "0kOlona States"
Corre.pondenee Of lhs Resister.

CorreSpondenee OF the Register.
CHICAGO, Ill, September 10.
Tie bountiiul crops with which the
great Northwest is teeming have proved
an inspiration to the commercial aud
manufacturing world, and on every side
is heard but one response, splendid" {"
to the query, Allows business" There
has been an immense immigration all
summer long to the vast and fertile
Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska, where
the thrifty and by no means poor farm
ers from England, Norway, Sweden and
Russia have taken up large tracts OF the
cheap railroad and Government lands,
upon which towns and villages
have sprung up almost by
marie. The rush 10 the
mining camps scattered through Colo
rad0. Utah and other mineral regions IN
the Rockies has been unexamPled in the
history of mining operations, and,
where "goOd color has shown itself, a
very few days, comparatively speaking,
have been required 10 transform the
barren and rugged mountain side into
an active, bustling pioneer town, with
all the cOnCOmitants Of q rude but en-
during civilization, stretching out in
every direction in search Of these min
ing camps and agricultural communities,
an in many instances stripping them
in the race, are stupendOus trunk lines
of railroads, with branches and feeders
at every little distance.
These people the pioneers Of civili-
xatiOn IN a country which, few years
ago. vas set down on the maps as the
Great American Desert, or incOrrigible
wildrrness-are not only large pro-
ducrrS, but their cOnSumptiye power Is
enormous. Ton after ton OF iron IS used
in the manufacture OF mining and agrl-
cultural machinery; the product OF
thousands Of acres of Wisconsin
AMI Michigan pine lands will
be required in the building OF houses
AMI fences, and hundreds OF freight
trains laden with groceries, dry goods,
boots and shoes, and the thousand and
one articles needed in the household
viii find their way to the various points
OF distribution, not for speculative pur-
poses but for actual consumption.
In this great development Ofthe West
and Northwest, Chicago has a mighty
interest, and her business men are fully
alive &c the necessities of the hour. The
Chi.ago drummer with his inevitable
sample case is usually the first pasSen-
ger at the ever-changing railroad termi-
nus. and, when the iron horse can no
lon,er afford the travelling facilities
nee led, the stage coach or freight wagon
supplies the deficiency.
Chicago capital Is freely scattered
throughout the entire western country.
Her merchants and manufactures are
largely interested IN mining properties
and cattle ranches. Agencies for Chi
cagJ houses are to be met with IN al
most every town OF any importance
and the frequency with which the
traveller runs across Chicago goods and
manufactures cannot but impress him
with the startling truth that this and no
other citv has "the bulge on the trade
OF those who are IN the van Ot clylllZa-
ton. Business il booming TO use a
Chicago mercantile term 20 express a
lively state OF trade. Trade was never
before so good at this time OF the year
"a il now is, and prices were never
frmer nor collections better.
In regard to the nail tradein your city,
the Chicago TUWsS remarks:
eli the prices oi other articles OF mer-
chandiSe IN Wheeling, W. Va, are
advancing as rapidly rs those Of nails,
there ought 10 be- no occasion for COM
plant on the part of people who have
Nh EN- fara.1 -
everything in the nail line from tack
10 railroad spike are said To be over
whrlmed with orders, which may ac-
count for the fOrtnightly advance 0t
shilling or more in their price lists. The
cause of the unusual demand for these
wares is not apparent, unless the enor-
NOUS consumption OF them i'm the box
ing up of deiuuct rag-babies IN Maine,
Ohio and Wisconsin explains II.
THE oKALoNATIC STATESMAN.
When man gains notOrjety by rea-
son OF some important discovery or pub
lie action, or even frantic utterances IN
favor OF or opposed to athcOry IN which
many human beings are interested,
there is a general desire 10 see the man
and hear him talk.
Probably this is the spirit which IN
spired about two hundred residents OF
Chicago % visit Mccormick Hall few
evenings since 10 see and listen To the
furious harrangue OF Col. A. \. Harper,
peculiarly known a the "OkOlona
statesman This unrecOnstruCted
yawper oi the OkoiORI Si0tes Is "nawth'
ON a lecturing tour. Col Harper east
anchor first Of all in Chicago. because
he knew Chicago was the best point
from which 10 advertise himself.
lie comes as missionary. He wants
10 let "you uus" know the feelings and
sentiments OF the people of the South.
Since the Colonel has sounded his
barbaric yamp in Chicago he has gone
over to Iowa 10 sound IL some more.
The Okolouatic should challenge the
celebrated Iowa editor, he Of the Le-
mars S7,tI.si 10 joint debate. An en-
counter OF words between these doughty
masters of vituperdtion would BE- more
interesting than ii the Mississippi Col
onel" should do all the talking himself