Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-01-12

One Half a Million OF Dollars for Postage

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George Stinson d Co, the celebrated
Art Publishers, Of Portland, Maine, IN.
doubtedly pay more money for postage
stamps than any ether trm in the world;
for the last five years their postage bill!
has averaged over Two thousand dollars
per week, making a grand aggregate OF
over five hundred and twenty thousand
dollars; this is about the three-hun-
dredth part of all postage Of every de
scription collected by the United States
government during that time, and in
this connection il 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 cos of send
ing the light Packages, letters and cir
c~aiars, for large, heavy packages are sent
by express and freight. Messrs. Stinaon
d Co. publish every description of pict-
ures 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 interest
ing: A short time since an order for an
assortment Of over three thousand large
and expensive pictures was ssreceivei
from Tasmania, awav down under the
South Pole. Not many years ago Tas
mania was a penal colony Of England,
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victs and their keepers. Since the re
moval OF the convicts, il has become a
thrifty colony this place is SO remote.
that three months are required for al
answer to a letter. Tons Of pictures are
sent to South America by Mcssrs. Stin-
son 4 Co., and West Africa sends to
Portland for works Of art they have
trade in every quarter of the globe
where civilization has gained IA fooihold.
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, i'm ali
things. They carry in stock millions o!
pictures, and arc ut a moments notice
ready to fill a five cent order, or one for
thousands Of dollars; they employ some
five hundred artists, clerks, and work.
mon their machinery and appoint
ments are on q magnificent scale, and q
trade of ten thousand dollars a dav, on
an average, is required to keep them
moving in full. blast. Their assortment
OF steel plates is especially fine, aud
ranks very higli in artistic merit many
thousands OF dollars are often spent on
. single plate. They appreciate the
value of printers ink, and know how to
use it TO the best advantage therefore
they advertise largely and literally in
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. advertising
was an important factor in laying the
sound foundations Of their great success,
and without il, they state it would have
been utterly impossible FOR them to have
reached their present position.
Stinson & Co. are a striking ~illustra-
ton Of what can be accomplished by
saergy, Industry, and good Judgment.
There is room ut the top al! honor to
those who fight their way up. This
trim believes in sta '.dard goods and low
prices, and on that principle their bust
ness is condictad. American homes
should be made beautiful by refined and
meritorious works of art no one haa
any excuse for not adding to their
homes the charms of pictures, for fine
works of high art are within the reach
OF all.