The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-30
HHH BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
The Outlook For Business For
Next Year is Glorious,
THE SEASON OF PROSPERITY
Expected in Every Department OF
Trade-IFon FactOr-The Coal
Interests WIN Look Up, and all
Underth "Robber Tariff"

branch OF the wholesale dry goods trad
from iObbers, importera aud the com
mission houses-Comes the propheC,
that the business next year will be on
oftAe largest and most successful IN th
history OF the trade, The business Q
the past year is generally regarded as BIZ
ing very fair and satisfactory, but al
hands are unanimous in the opinion tha
in the coming season business will b.
better still.
John Clsfin, tho head q the house o
H, B, Claaiu' 4 Co., said; "rhe pros
poets otthe wholesale dry goods business
for thu coming year are favorable IN the
extreme, Just at present merchants
have very little stock on hand, and goods
are about sold up. Many OF us will com'
mence the new year with clean floors
ready for brand new goods, The warm
weather has been little untaYorable,
but people are rich aud able TO buy free
ly. We have all done big fall business,
think, and we look forward TO an even
better spring business. The main fact ia
that throughout the country we have
had magnificent crops, and that these, in
most cases, have brought good prices,
The cotton crop, for instance, has been
one Oi the largest ever raised, and the
growers have received big prices for their
cotton, too.
BANKERS OPINION.
W. L. Strong, Of W. L, Strong 4 Co.,
and the President Of the Central Ma.
tional Bauk, said: "There is only one
opinion In the trade regarding prospects
for 1890. UnlrsS all indIcatiOs fail we
are going 10 have an exceedingly good
year, aud a better one than tue present
year. There seems to be lots Of money 10
the country. Tne crops this year ar,
known TO be very large, aud that will
cause purchases, VI course. We all did
a biz business this fall, aud We are going
70 do a bigger business, think, In th'
season " come. dUu'L want TO partiC.
ulaiize about any one branch Ot tte
business, but, generally speaking, tht
luulCatlVun aIp alI lA'Wau'ui AAu We
treuIely so for wonderful good bust.
ness next year"
WHOLESALE GRocERs ENCOURAGED.
MIR. Whyland, Of lhurber, Whyland
4 Co., takes a very encouraging virw o.
the grocery trade. Business in that lin,
he said, had been better this winte'
than usual, aud there was ever!
prospect that good holiday. tradt
would be followed by good winter busl'
ness.
ain fact" he said, 1--WE have every
reason to anticipate good aud steadl-
ly increasing trade for ut least two or
three years TO come"
The export trade, for which his firm
had been fighting Tor dosen years, was
gradually increasing, he said, and Am-
eriCan dealers seetued 10 be getting u
permanent foothold In that department.
He looked for an increase in the South
American trade from the Pan-AmeriCan
Congress, aud the Increased Intimacy
between this country and the Spanish-
American republics that will result
from 1t,
COAL AND IRON PROSPECTS,
Mr.. Edward J. Berwlnd, President Of
the Colorado Coal aud Iron Company,
said Of the anthracite coal trade, that II
depended somewhat on tue temperature,
This, however, applied only to the de.
mands toF consumption In homes. "Fht
manufacturing demauds for Anthracite
promise to be very large" said Mr.. Ber-
wind more so than In years past. The
reports from all tue notwithstanding dis.
tricts support this opinion, and as for
bituminous, there Is scarcely doubt
that the demands for 1890 will exceed
that OF any year In the history Of the
country. The railroads are very active;
they are In full operation all over the
country and all tue appearances war.
rant belief in the COntihGed activity. /
am also strongly incllaed to the opinion
Guat prices Tor bituuiiuUus coal will Du
advanced. The supply Is small, Frans.
portatiop iacjlitieS' iOr 6ltuuinous Coal
are not by any means equal IN the dc.
mand. The output could be increased,
but little or nothing could be gained ~
long as transportation facilities are not
ut haAd.
Mr.. Berwind referred to the prospects
for The lrou and steel trade. NBoth iron
and steel" said he, "wiil cGn,naad but.
ter prices. The mills will be run on full
capacity. The large crops and general
prosperity encourage construction not
only OF railroads, but also Of manulactO.
ries and other large buildings. Then
again, aud 1t is one OF the most import.
ant features, Europe will not be u com.
petitor for the sale OF iron products Ia
this country for the next three or four
years. There 10 BCArCity Of labor
abroad, and already the prices for iron
products on the other side Of tue ocean
are higher than here. Foreign iron IL
therefore shut out, and hpue manuiac'
turers are 10 have the whole held 10
themselves"
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE.
The holding Of t.e International Con-
gress, the revolution In Brazil, and The
well.knoyn Fsaent qptlylty in niercapAle
circles concerned with South America,
make the subject Of the South American
trade Of this country just now very in
teresting one.
NJ. CIarlvS R. Flint, Of the flrm oil
Fliut 4 90, and also treasurer Of the
New York ComMerGlal pOmbRhy, liml
tied, sald NThe outlook Ii favorable
for the Increase Of business between the
United States aud the countries to the
south Of Us. While In NY OpinlUn tIlt
International American Conference will
not brlng about at once the realization
OF the hopes and antiCipations aI tht
most sanguine, our trade With our South.
ern nelRhhOtg will by henpHlted by III,
conference, The attention Vi tue lner
chants aud consumers oil South AmviiOl
has been directed to thB tnanuiaCLufInI
facilities Of this country, not 90 muu[
through the communications which
have been sent by the iorvipt
delegates 10 their uoYptpmenIs, 6u
uulvE 9n apTADgelne1t with the Cku
tralahd South American Cable CompaLl,