The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-06-15
RFET0N AS A BUSINESS CENTER.
The Enormous Stocks and Extra Quality Of
Goods on sale-Every Line Of Oom-
mercial Enterprise Fully
Represented.
It's Superiority as a Purchasing Point
Plainly Descernible.

An examination of the stocks Of goods and
the business done by the various firms in
Benton will disclose what our most sucf
cessful business men conceive as the part
Benton is to take in the commerce Of the
Territory, and the class of business they are
catering TO, more than any set Of words can
convey. Not only in the magnitude OF stocks
carried, but in their varied nature, their rich
es, and the extremely low prices at which
they are offered, they tell a story Of a fu-
TUE that long experience IN the needs and
knowledge Of the resources Of the country
has shown will be prosperous. Our mer-
chants are vieing with each other as to who
shall carry the most extensive and finest
goods, and sell them for the least, and with q
vim that is certain to make Of Benton the
most advantageous market to buy il in the
whole Territory. The jobbing trade has been
growing so persistently that our larger
houses are finding it more profitable to handle
goods in this way, that at retail, and although
they have not given up the retail trade, they
are showing 81 disposition to gradually with
draw therefrom. A new class has sprung up,
Of dealers exclusively retail, or retail and
wholesale in special branches of trade. We
have now one exclusive dry goods store, two
clothing houses, one furniture store, one
liquor store, one grocery store, three drug
stores, two harness and saddlery shops and
two hardware houses, al doing business On
the exclusive foundation Of their special
lines.
We have not included in the above the four
great houses of T. &. Power & Bro, Murphy,
Neel 81 Co., [. G. Baker g. Co., and W. S.
Wetzel, but simply referred to the new
houses Of Hirshberg s. Nathan, Cans &
Klein, Baker & DeLorimer, L. H. Rosen-
craRs, TT. Todd & Co., F. G. Roosevelt g
Co., M. 4. Flanagan, DR.. Turner, 81. J.
Wackerlin & Co., A. q. Beckman, w. j. Mi
mar and a new hardware store not yet COM
p!etely organized, besides the many others
doing business in small way. These ex-
elusive houses carry heavy stocks of the
finest goods.
One cannot but be struck with the luxu-
rious richness of the goods themselves. Dry
goods in silks and velvets, Turkish and Brus-
sells carpets and rugs, table covers rivaling
the productions of the far East in richness Of
color and design, and sold at a price not ten
per cent. above what they can be purchased
for in the cities of the East. Pianos, organs,
Turkish upholstered furniture, sporting
goods, all remind one of an Eastern mart.
Indeed the display Of goods is an exposition
of the whole worlds commerce.
We cannot too strongly urge upon con-
sumers of goods throughout the Territory to
apply for description and prices of the goods
on sale at Benton, for we are confident that
they can save money and obtain a superior
class of goods here than elsewhere in the
Territory.
The advertising columns Of the RIVER
PRESS are q fair index Of what we have here
il Benton, and the class Of business men who
are competing for her trade, and we will put
their energy, sagacity and business expert
ence against any equal number of men any
where, and these alone are the best guaran-
tees that customers can have Of fair dealing,
cheap prices and good goods.