The Dawson journal., 1883-07-12
MATTERS IN ST. LOUIS.
Interesting Better from Mr.
.. 3. stevens.

week, l now begin to realize the lmpor-
lance and magnifcance of things out west.
Everything is ON a big scale herc-big
city, big houses big parks big bridges,
big river, big men, big railroads, big bust
ness, big everything! The river especially
just now is assuming vast proportions in
front Of the city. The flood is tremendous
and the destruction great OF crops and
property. East st. Louis and vicinity is
submerged for miles and the front on
River street Of St. Louis on the western
bluff is all under water up to the windows
of the houses. Business is seriously him
dered aud most Of the Eastern railroad is
SO obstrReted that transportation and pas
sage are impossible. 1t would be impossi-
bic for me to say much Of st Louis, on SO
limited acquaintance, but will state here
that j. y. Laing and myself arc fast be-
coming acquainted with the people. 1t is
necessary i'll our line of business, and never
in all my travels have l been received more
cordially or treated more gentlemanly tl.an
in the city of St. Louis While she has
great many bad people, she has great
many good ones. st. Louis now has
population Of 100000 and is doing an inn
mense business in cotton, tobacco, grain,
cattle, horses, lumber, iron, dry goods,
truck and various factories When
this great Southwestern country is fully
opened up, it will greatly increase the size
and enhance the business of this place. 1t
Is hard to tell the proportion the. city will
ere long reach, especially if it gets the
capital Of the United States-a boom many
ST. Louisans seem tocovet and hope tl.ey
expect to realize. The city is well located
for health and good living, as well as for
business and every grand enterprise which
tends to develop great country. This is
place of many railroads.&c. seperate and
distinct lines going out of the city, which
gives us many advantages in the melon
and truck business. We certainly have
/ the best market west for this business, and
Joe and myself are very hopeful. We could
today use Is cars of choice Georgia melons
TO advantage. By the way, we are getting
up quite boom on Georgia melons. en-
close few of our cards and circulars show
ing what we are doing in this direction.
This is also place of many churches and
many, very many beer gardens. Religion
and wicke1ness here seem to be in collos.
sal antagonism. The Sabbath is thorodgly
desecrated with beer drinking, picnics,
base balling, horse racing and theatre going,
while in the summer at least, church going
is sadly at discount Sunday in the sum.
mer so am told, is about the worst day
St Louis has. 1t certainly must be fruit.
ful1of a great deal of evil ana the ministers
and christian workers seem to toll and de.
claim in vain against this enormous evil Of
an abused Sabbath.
| DR.. George A. Lotion, our old friend
and fellow-citizen, formerly Terrell coun-
ty man, IS still here AID battlingawa, with
excellent success at Park Avenue Baptist
church. He is looking wei, in fine spirits
and seem to be greatly encouraged with
his work. He makes inquiry about each
Of his Old Dawson friends. Some of us are
making strenuous efforts to get him to rest
FIR a year or so, until he is fully recuper-
ated by settling with his relatives and
friends in Dawson. l can't yet tell what
will attend these endeavors, but they are
hopeful OF success, at least.
j. 4. Laing AID myself have associated
with Us Mr.. Webster Davis. of Atlanta.
who many of your people know. We
have opened branch Office in Atlanta for
the purpose OF assisting this Office here.
Mr.. Davis has charge of the Atlanta
office and myself and j. a. Laing the St.
Louis Office. | will state here that Mr..
LANG has just returned from Chicargo
and it is highly probable that he will leave
this office with me and return to Chicargo
for permanent location. | think we have
our business at this place so well arranged
that can handle the trade alone, and with
Davis in Atlanta, myself at St. Louis and
LANG at Chicargo, we certainly can handle
melons equal to any firm at least.
/ tell you l never done so much work in
two weeks before in my life. You NAV
say to all who launch out in this business,
that they will find work and that with
gloves off. Advise your people to ship
nothing but frst-class melons, frst-cass
everything. When you 90 into large
marisets you have to comp tic do not
mean that small melons do not pay to
ships but, in Shipping if a part is small and
a part large divide them off in the car and
be careful not to ship your melons green.
Enclosed find sketch drawn from our mar.
ket to-day. The man on the rightrepresenls
Georgia melon rejected; the stem was
twisted when green in order to ripen the
melon and so it did, but premature. The
man did this in order to get in early and
get fancy prices. What's the result? This
melon is wroth all the way from Si5 to
t;25 per hundred. Like the Macon Tele-
graph says this man gets his returns and
says to everybody truck farming is a fail
ure. The man in the centre represents the
Texas melon. Small, round and solid
green color; when cut it is brittle and not
sweet, sells from $l5 to $50 per hundred
The man on the left represents the honest
Georgia melon. Shipper who ripens his
stock well and selects it as he would for
his own household, and when received by
his commission merchant is sold without
trouble for $50 to $40 per hundred. We
hope to open up st. Louis. to Dawson At