The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-11-04
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Pulaski Has Future.
We have recently given some
facts and reasons that Pulaski is
on fair start to greater prospect
ty. There is considerable building
in progress, trade is splendid, crops
are unprecedented, the people get
ting out of debt and a general revi
val of business affairs. Birming-
ham is draining our market for
supplies. She will take ten times
as much as we can furnish, and be-
ing the most prosperous city south,
she can and does give the very
best prices. Pulaski is her nearest
best market. Sheffield will soon he
making requisition upon US, but
whether so or. not, Birmingham is
destined to be a metropolis and
she will have to buy every mouth
full she eats, and Giles county thus
has a permanent market.
The amount of eggs, butter, po-
tatoes, corn, wheat, cattle, and ev-
erything that people consume,
that is shipped from Pulaski to
Birmingham is already very large
and continually increasing. 1t is
limited alone by the supply. II
we would ship more, we have only
to raise more. The prices are good
too. For instance, did you ever
see eggs hold up as well as they
have this year. Birmingham did
it. They have never gotten down
to the paltry prices that usually
prevail in dull seasons.
If we cultivate this trade, and in
creasesthe supply, Giles county has
a good thing of it. Birmingham 8
growth measures our prosperity.
1t doesn't need any argument to
prove these things. A glance at
the situation demonstrates them,
and then they are in process of &C
tual development. How can we
further itT
The farmers of Giles who are the
principal benefciaries should make
it a special point to build up the
Pulaski market. Make this big
depot of supplies-the central sup
ply-point for Birmingham--so that
a dealer there may always know
that he can get anything and all
he wants here. If a man has an or
der for a thousand dozen eggs or
thousand chickens or a carload of
potatoes or fruit or grain or cattle,
if he has to run about from sta
ton to station and pick it up in
dribs, he cannot pay as much.
If he can get it all in u lump right
here in Pulaski, ship it all at once,
and get back home on the next
train, of course he can pay better
prices because his expenses are
greatly reduced.
The trade is growing largely in
Pulaski but it ought all to be cen
tralized here. The farmer can
readily see how this is to his advan-
tage. The quicker his product gets
to market and the less expense at
tached, the better his price will be.
The dealer always takes his expens-
es off tbs price. Bring it all here
and thus lessen the dealers expense
and reduce freights by carrying it
in bulk insteads of dribs, and the
farmer gets the full benefit of the
saving.
The CITIZEN is not making a
selfish argument for Pulaski's bene-
fit, as some will doubtless be ready
to say. We have always sought
earnestly to advance the interests
of the farming class first because
that underlies all other interests.
Now we can make things work to-
gether for the good of all. There
is not a prosperous country and
town on earth where tbs country
people and the town people are at
Ioggerheads. We have had too
much of that IN Giles. All our
people ought to take pride in Pu
Iaskis growth, for in building her
up they are making a market for
their stuff and contributing to the
results which this article is endeav-
oring to promote.
Bring your stuff to Pulaski and
keep on bringing it. The more
that is brought, the bigger market
it becomes and the better the prices
will be. 1t will not be long before
this trade assumes larger proper
lions and we will see wholesale stor-
age depots In Pulaski instead of
huckster stands. We can make it
thus if we will. Birmingham is
begging for more and she holds out
landfuls of money to US. AS long
Is we dribble it down the road by |
.he bushel and by the dozen the
will eat up the profit. If
We will arrange to send it by the
carload and have it so that a dealer
nay know he can get what he
wants in Pulaski CERTAIN, we thus
Pulaski and Giles county
Is a suburb of and permanent
the enormous prospect
y that Birmingham is enjoying
md is destined to enjoy ten-fold,
we, an hundred fold more.