Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
one-Halfa million po,lars for POSTAGE

Geo. StinSon Il Co., the celebrated art
publishers, of Portland, Maine, un-
doubtedly pay more money for postage
stamps than any other firm in the world;
for the last five years their postal bill
has averaged over two thousand dollars
per week, making grand aggregate of
over five hundred and twenty thousand
dollars; this is about three-hundredth
part Of all postage of every description
collected by the United States govern
ment during that time, and in this con-
neculon it must be borne in mind that
the country now has over fifty million
souls, and fifty thousand post-offices.
But the enormous sum paid for postage
represents only the cost of sending the
light packages, letters and circulars, for
large, heavy packages are sent by eX-
press and freight. Messrs. Stinson &
20. publish every description Of pictures
of the better class, and their trade now
extends over the entire world. As an
illustration of the fact that their trade
reaches the furthermost parts of the
earth, the following may be interesting:
a short time since an order for an as
sortment of over three thousand large
and expensive pictures was received
from Tasmania, away down under the
South Pole. Not many years ago Tas-
mania was penal colony of England,
and its population was entirely of con-
victs and their keepers. Since the re-
moyal OF the convicts, it has become
thrifty colony; this place is so remote,
that three months is required for an
answer to a letter. Tons of pictures
are sent to South America by Messrs.
Stinson & Co., and West Africa sends
to Portland for works of art; they have
trade in every quarter of the globe
where civilization has gained foot
hold. Commencing at the bottom, they
have worked their way up to the top,
step by step, and thereby, added to the
greatest push and enterprise, they have
that solid, practical experience that is
always necessary to the best results, in
all things. They carry in stock mil
lions of pictures, and are at moments
notice ready to fill a five cent order, or
one for thousands of dollars; they en-
ploy some five hundred artists, clerks,
and worllmen; their machinery and ap-
pointments are on a magnificent scale,
and a trade of ten thousand dollars
day, on an average, is required to keep
them moving III full blast. Their as
sortment of steel plates is especially
fine, and ranks very high in artistic
merit; many thousand dollars are often
spent on single plate. They appre-
ciate the value of printers ink, and
know how to use it to the best advan-
tage; therefore they advertise largely
and literally in the newspapers-news-
paper advertising was an important
factor in laying the sound foundations
of their great success, and without it,
they state that it would have been
utterly impossible for them to have
reached their present position.
Stinson & Co. are "a striking illustra-
tion OF what can be accomplished by
energy, industry and good judgment.
There is g room at the top'-all honor
to those who fight their way. up. This
firm believes in standard goods and low
prices, and on that principle their busi-
ness is conducted. American homes
should be made beautiful by refined and
meritorious works of art; no one has
any excuse for not adding to tfeir
homes the charms of pictures, for fine
works of high art are within the reach
of all.