The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-02
ST. JOSE PHI. MO.
The Electric city--Its Manufacturing
 Advantages.

The industrial and commercial trium phs of st Joseph furnish abundant texts for Fourth of July oratory. but the Eagnitude and prom. ise of her manufacturing interests, and the extent of her facilities in this department of business enterprise. are such as to command the highest flight of rhetorical pyrotechnics.
 The advantages of St. Joseph As a mAnufAc- turing city naturally fall under two heads nrst. location. and second. transportation facilities. The locality ts good, because it is close to the present center of production and distribution. and because the new terrltory tributary to the city is absoi uteiy unlimited. In older sections of the country. the hsld open to the nufacturer is becoming steadily more crcumscribed. while the regions rely ing on St. Joseph for anufActurers is Ontin uaIly exfAnding: the increase in the population of the west goes steadily on. consumers are muI. tplying more rapidly than the facilities for supplying the demands of trade; naturally the tendency of the times Is to bring the man. ufAeturer and the consumer in as close prox. unity as possible. The controy ersy as to the long and short" haul is being settled by die penaing with the long haul wherever such A course is possible. The Missouri Valley Is to become the workshop. the beehive. the em porium Of the great territory lying west of the Mississippi river. and St Joseph will never lose her place at the head of the list of west. ern cities.
 Then again. the wholesale trade of the city must be taken into consideration by the man. utacturer. The wholesale trade of St. Jose ph is larger than that of Omaha and Kansas City combined; and the territory traversed by the representatives of the various lines. annually consumes more goods than could possibly be ttath hy Ra~ t.a q the factories what they may. The advantage to the manufacturer IS two foldS he can pro cure the material for his product right at home and at irst cost. and he can dispose of his manufactures without even going out of the city 10 solicit an order.
 The manufacturer who locates at St. Joseph enters upon no new held He is not called upon to try an experiment.. He is not called upon to enter territory heretofore unAo- quainted with st. Joseph as manufacturing and com1nercial city. He will Hnd St Joseph better known a great commercial center throughout the territory tributary to the Missouri valley than either KAnsas Ci,y or omaha. He will hnd St. Joseph merchants leading all com mpetitors in all lines of goods. excepting only agricultural implements and lum Der, and in these lines, this city does an immense business.
 No manufactory heretofore established in St. Joseph has failed to prosper. except In oc- casiOnAI instances of incompetent manage ment. The largest manufacturers are those who began with little means and have amAs sod fortunes. For every dollar lost by St. Joseph manufacturers who have failed through mis- fortune or mismanAgement, thousands of dol lars have been made.
 A striking feature of business management in this city is the free use of labor saving de. vices for the purpose of speed. convenience and economy; another Is the selection of the most favorable locations for the houses; and a thIrd Is the careful and intelligent super vision of every commercial transaction and every industrial process. These are all methods of economical management. and give more or less advantage in the market. An other characteristic. which has already been alluded to, is the great variety of supplies made or sold here, embracing nearly every. thing for which there is liable to be any demand. throughout the whole area of trade. This is especially observable Tn anufActures. of which there are 4Sl establishments. engaged in about leo different lines of production. But although the dealers enectually supplement