St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-25
The TREND OF TRADE.
Interesting and Exhaustive
Resume Of the Business
: Of the Week.
transportation Facilities Rel
atively Improving With
Every Season.
A Week Of Bright Weather
Helps Out Northwestern
Wheat Crops.
Every Report That Comes
From Merchants Is Bright
err Than the Last.

In meeting Eastern competition the
wholesale merchants of st. Paul find
themselves In very satisfactory posi-
ton, especially this season. and many
of them are more willing than ever to
make known the hold they have upon
the business of their section. The
freightS by the lakes and northern rail-
way routes have been so adjusted that
they have met the competition of East
ern trade centers with success, and to
the magnificent grain crops of this pros
porous Northwest is added the desirable
condition of transportation that enables
the merchants to offer goods on basis
that restricts the invasion Of North
western territory by Eastern houses.
AS one very prominent wholesale grocer
said here yesterday on this subject:
Chicago is not in 1t when it comes to COM
petition with st. Paul wholesale men,
No very noticeable change has oc-
Cured in the business situation here
since last weeks report, except that
the weather has been bright and favor
able during the whole week, and the
Northwestern farmers have been hard
at work. In the face of their busy
times the orders for most of the lines of
goods nave been quite as numerous, and
collections have been just as good in
ONE inStanceS-better in others. The
situation is summed up by d. Marcland,
superintendent OF BradstreetS Mercan-
tile agency, as follows:
The Agency Reports
There has been no particular change in
the st. Paul wholesale trade, as CONF Lar d
with week ago, except that collections are
coming Ill more freely. and the country banks
n MOI n hfnnRCntQ q nn n111a
of the banks i'll the western part OF the state
are well supplied with money. They are
seeking good mercantile paper-have been
looking for paper here. The wholesale bust
ness Of st. Paul has been excellent this sea-
son, better than ever before. IN some lines
there is little lull, but as the threshing pro-
crosses and the Northwest realizes from its
crops, the favorable conditions are likely 10
reach the high anticipationS of the business
men.
Charming Seabury. of Seabury & Co.,
wholesale grocers. characterized the en-
! tire trade situation for 1891 as the bright
est he had ever seen. He took the great
est pleasure in showing the good that
has been done by the railroads and ST.
| Paul jobbers in Fastening the move
ment of threshing machines and farm
| hands to the Northwestern district. He
warmly commended the GLOBE for Civ
ing wide publicity to the necessity for
additional men and machinery. While
| these demands have been supplied TO a
considerable extent, there exists lack
of threshers on the Great Northern rail-
way, and of men on both that road and
| the Northern Pacific. The state of af-
fairs can be more clearly seen from the
! following reports:
Threshers In Plenty.
| S. L. Moore, general freight agent
of the Northern Pacific:
| During the last week threshing has been
resumed throughout the entire Northwest
J Much of the wheat is going forward TO the