The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-15
DRUMMERS.
Way Down Upon the Sanpete.

SANPETE Co., June 10th, 1888.
Editors Herald:
AS an exhibition of more than
ordinary patience Job of biblical
fame is heralded by parents and
merchants.
The unconquerable runner of
eastern houses is largely on the in
crease at thesexcellent hostelerey
the Snowflake House at Manti. I
counted four, and more to arrive.
The commodities were well spread
and the prices promised to be below
anything heretofore offered. A
whole day will be devoted to call
upon the stOrekeeper to "come and
see" "if only to see" it Is o. K. 81
am here from Chicago to show you
just what our house can do" Per
sistency wins, patience bsdgered.
An order is given and that order
will have to be met with cash
while perhaps an open account
stands in some Of your city mer-
chants book, whose order and its
prompt cash was theirs, for
they carried this very man
from infancy to manhood
through many grades of Averages.
The evil of scattering patronage
is sometimes fraught with disaster.
I know of one house who stood on
the awful brink of collapse conse-
quent on this prompt cash to a new
house while notes matured were
much in the rear,
The house that had nurSed and
nourished the beginner, had even
honored its demands for goods, had
sometimes been depository, though
rare; but frequently heavy cred
itor, said ''trade with us in our line"
concentrate with us, give us your
cash, all you can, and we will carry
you; scatter, and we demand set
Element, "a picture not overdrawn.
Do these eastern gents bear any of
the expenses of our local govern
ment? do they contribute a moity
of the tax on trades, for roads and
schools? or do they not, these gents
of the road, draw our cash to beau
tify Chicago or farther east?
The necessity Of hotel accommo-
dation is somewhat on the increase
in the city Of Manti. 1t would
almost seem that a growing neces-
sity was pushing above ground for a
wholesale house here. Perhaps the
advent of the narrow guage to our
centres of trade will give this item
more color, form and substance.
If we are determined to Wean our
selves from our foster mother, Salt
Lake, we may as we'll have no ex-
pensive Intermediates, but come
direct to us. But above all things
let US be just. The heavily laden
runners wagon of your leading
houses are on the alert, and | see no
reason why the cheekiness of the
Chicagoan, the solidity of the Phila-
delphian, the positiYeness of the
New Yorker should not be met by
the Utonian.
must mention the products of
the Prove Mills, SO gentlemanly ex-
hibited by Mr.. Cutler and his wares
so worthy of patronage, excellent
| in color, fabric; but little more
Fuller's soap would give these pro-
| auctions a growing demand,a nd the
concentration of wealth and conse-
| quent diversified machinery use UP
| diversified wool now being shipped
and by being retained at home di-
versifed fabrics made. With gen
tlemanly travelling agents, the water
power of the Timpanogas might be
made to nearly supply our Terri.
tory with wooden fabrics. One
mammoth affair now so well con
Quoted is preferable to driblets, es
pecially if driblets do not pay.
To-day,at Nephi,I met your young
townsman, Spencer Clawson, armed
and equipped for trade, with Wagon
load of samples. His mOdesty il
answer to my query, "How are yol
DOING" was shown in his answer
From fair to middling," Such a
he, tWelvemonth in trade, it i
well and safe to encourage. He i
of, from and for this people.
Perhaps the tormentors of Brothe
job will be after d. Q.