St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-06
The TREND OF TRADE.
st. Paul Now Booming in
Every Line Of City
Traffic.
Bank Clearings Plainly Show
the Increase Of the
Volume.
AS Crops Are Marketed Mon
ey Pours Into the
Center.
Dealers Gladly Relate the EX-
tent Of Their Transac-
tons.

there been such extraordinary develop
ment as is now going on i'll st. Paul.
Every branch of manufacturing has
been employing more people than last
year, and that spirit of LOYALTY toward
home products, to which abundant ref
erence has been made heretofore, has
been greatly intensified. Northwestern
goods are preferred by the people, es-
p2cially in face of the fact that the
quality and cost are largely in their
favor.
All the wholesale houses give glowing
reports OF their business. and one can
not IND one that has no pleasant feat
ure to report. St. Paul is the glorious
and great city today of this Northwest,
territory large enough to hold en-
plres. 1t is not old, fogyish, like some
of the Eastern Cincinnatis.
A friend from Omaha said yesterday:
ut took three weeks for an Omaha
wholesale house to recover from little
fire. That is, they didn't take an order
for three weeks. You have a million
dollar fire here at night, but the losers
take orders the next morning and right
along. Well. that's enterprise. That's
half OF the work. 1t is sad that SO many
men were lost by the falling of the
walls"
The accident took SO much attention
that it was difficult to interview some
of the leaders yesterday. The general
views expressed were:
Heavy Bank CIearEngs.
Henry p. Upham. President First Ma
tional bank:
The heaviest bank clearings ever known in
this city have been recorded this week. They
were SIo3I.7I.33. an increase of 1919 per cent
over the same period in 1892, when the clear
ings were s., OF. 43S.54. could speak in gem
eral platitudes on banking matters. but the
elst of il ali is that there's no notable change
from the week previous. The deposits are
Just about the same. Our collections are
good. have every reason to believe that
the clearings of the Twin Cities are reported
straight. There was an Instance at Omaha
l think. several years ago. -where duplication
was resorted to. but 1t was readily detected.
Our business is in a very satisfactory condi-
ton. and the wholesale trade of ST. Paul
seems to be in nice shape
The Harness Trade.
j. Ii. Mailer, Manager ST. Paul Har-
ness company:
Aside from our wagon business / am
deeply interested in this harness mnnufaet-
DRY, which was established on the West side
about fourteen months ago 1t EMPLOYS
twenty-five hands and has succeeded re.
markably well. We are supplying ioobers in
Illinois. Iowa Nebraska and Colorado and
we hnd that we are in position 10 compete
with the largest harness factories in the
country. The present owners of the bnsi-
ness are about TO incorporate and take
some additional capital in order to
extend operations in line with the de-
mands. This business has been bult
up without any aid or bonuses, and from the
present outlook we stand q good show of
making the concern one which ST. Paul will
have no occasion to be ashamed OF in the
! near future. We have had TO buy Gather
| from Sheboygan and Waukegan, Wis,
| Rockford. Ill, PitIsburg. Pa, Grand Rapids,
| Mich, and other Eastern points. but the es-
| Enlistment of tanneries here will soon con
| centrate the business at this point. All of
| the materials for tanning are close at hand,
| and the trade of the Northwest i'll leather
| products is very valuable. TakiAg of col
lectlons: Who can point to any considera-
! BILE failures i'll legitimate business in the
Northwest this season? Our carriage and
! rsefuTnishing business show an increase
| over last year of about 40 per cent. Our col
| lecllons were never better. and I'm pleased
/ to say we haven't lost a cent anywhere this
year A single week of sleighing cleaned
| the trade generally out of sleighing We
| hicles.
The Grain Business.
George w. Griggs, Griggs Brothers,
| grain merchants:
Over SIC 0OOJ0 bushels of wheat have been
| moved frcm Minnesota and the DakoiaS TO
| the terminal points up TO the middle of the
| week. This represents probably 41 10 50 per
| cent of the crop. The deliveries are likely
! To extend throughout the winter. There is
| shortage of cars and the elevators are nearly
| all full. We have letters like this for in
| stance: Elevators full: no cars in which to
| ship grain" Consequently there are no pur-
chases in some sections and business is at
| standstliL In other places ii is going out
as fast as the shippers can ship. Ii is quite
! likely that reduced prices kept back wheat
somewhat, but other places were willing to
sell. and took advantage of the demand The
| Duluth elevators VIII fill up ROW, but in
| view of the conditions regarding cars / don't
| believe the wheat could be moved faster,
| even if the price went to SIPS per bushel
| There is great deal OF grain in the country
| that has not reached market. The railroads
seem ludisposed TO haul hay as long us they
can get better paving freights.
Good Results Sure.
". S. Conrad, wholesale cigars:
| have just returned from trip through
| the northern wheat belt of Minnesota and
! North Dakota, and while The trade was good.
| yet I'm not entirely satisfied with the out
| look. for the reason that marketing for Vari-
| GUS reasons is too slow. The elevators are
| full of wheat and cars are furnished SLOWLY
| The South Dakota crops are more fully mar
| keted, but the returns from there are not as
| prompt as they should be. You see they had
| rain and cold and snow,a these all delayed
| marketing. The prospects never were better
| than they were at the outset. The great ma
! Jority of ali enormous crop is saved. The
| good results must come reasonably soon and
! 1 look for better business in 1892. We can
! compete with Chicago but the buyers should
stand by the Twin Cities on every point in
order to make the competition successful.
+. J. Schultz Il Co. find their whole
sale milinary business increasing to
such ali extent that they have taken a
larger store OH East Fourth street, near
Sibley.
AN effort to centralize a number of the
wholesale fruit and grain houses on
Third street, between jackson and
Minnesota streets. appears to be meet
ing with favor. Ii the rents are made
favorable, that section may capture a
large portion of the wholesale business.
Boot and Shoe Zine
c. II. Kellogg, president of Kellogg
Johnson Il Co., wholesale boots and
shoes:
Our trade serisk and collections are frs
rate with us. think they were never as gooC
heretofore. We have had more discountng
of bills this fall than ever before. The trade
| IS calling far better grades of goods than
| ever. There is a scarcity of warm goods, par
ticularly in rubbers German socks and such
| stock.
Charles II. Worthen. secretary, Pow
ers' Dry Goods company:
Our trade is very fair, mostly OF replenish
ing orders Collections are very fair. We
have no reason to com plain.
James W. Warren. Arthur, Warren &
| Abbott. wholesale notions:
Our trade has teenv very COED this We