The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-25
NEW WHOLESALE HOUSE.
WIOHITA'S SUPERIOR JoBBIEG FA-
CILITIES ATTRACTING
ATTENTION.
Geo. Il. Lloyd g. Co. With Fifty Thou
sand Dollar Stock Of Saddlery and
Furnishing Materials.

The business interests of the greater
centers Of the country no longer question
the fact of Wichita's superior location as a
distributing point, or doubt her promi-
nence as jobbing point of Importance in
the near future AS her marked distance
from other like centers becomes better
understood and her nearness to, and her
unrivaled facilities for reaching new and
rapidly developing territory is seen. whole
soleing representatives in all the lines OF
staples, especially of the more important
western centers. are discussing the prob
able status of Wichita as jobbing point
in connection with south and west Kan
sas and Oklahoma, and prohesying the
| effect that this city's superior facilities for
reaching directly and quickly those fields
will have upon the wholesale trades Of
cities are now compelled to keep resident
drummers in Wichita. Everybody at all
conversant with the situation comedies
that there is but one logical outcome, and
important distributing center between the
Missouri river and the Rocky mountains.
Not only does her location empasize the
conclusion but her railway facalties war
rant it, while the success Of the jobbing
firms already located here seals her pros
poets with the proof. 1t takes but a
glance to ascertain that Wichita occupies
/ l. hrrr hat
she has no rival as live stock, packing,
grain, manufacturing and wholesale
center nearer than the Missouri river on
the one hand and Denver upon the other.
The new line to be opened out IS that Of
saddlery, under the firm name Of Geo. II.
Lloyd & Co. The large three story build
| ing at the corner of East Douglas and To-
peka avenues has been leased and prepOra-
tions are now being made for the new
firm, and the extensive business
which will be opened out on or previous
to Jan l. OF the details the writer knows
little save what be learned through the
head of the firm, in a conversation occur
ing in brief call, but we gather that back
of Mr.. Lloyd is an old and strong eastern
house, and that the concern will open out
with $50, 600 stock of goods fresh from
the factories It is line of trade not
strictly represented here at present, but
line for which there has been a constant
and growing demand for year or more.
The average general retail dealer does not
like dividing up his trade between differ
ent distant points, especially when 1t is
possible to get just what he wants
as cheap as the cheapest and
near home and on a comparatively
short freight haul So this new house
with It's new line will unquestionably drop
right into an encouraging trade along with
our other jobbing houses.
Mr. Lloyd will make Wichita his home.
He informs US that he has had his eye on
this city for long time, coming first to
visit it in 1882, when he made several in
vestments in realty which he even refused
to sell in the boom days. He is therefore
no stranger to the city and its advantages
as jobbing point. As gentleman of un-
questioned character and business expert
ence he has been connected with the sad
dlery business for twenty-five years, being
practical, therefore, in all its branches.
For the past seven years he
has been the western representative
OF the We'll huONu OHiCdSO nOAoO
of A. +. Riser & Co. Prior to that time
he was travelling salesman for c. J. Cooper
s. Co., a manufacturing firm OF saddiery-
hordware in Chicago. Prior to that he
held the responsible position of assistant
superintendent with the Garfield Manu-
featuring company of that city, a saddling
house of national reputation. For ten
years be has been constantly on the road
IN the above business, visiting all the
towns and cities in the west and OF the
Pacific coast, and the northwest territory
about Puget Sound, making hosts of
friends. In this way he became thoroughly
codversant with the advantages and dis
advantages of every western wholesaling
point, and, as he himselI says, none of
them, today, not excepting Omaha, Kan
sas City, Denver, Salt Lake, nor the newer
cities of Puget Sound offer the opportuni-
ties to a new jobbing trade that Wichita
does
The EAGLE welcomes to our city this
new aud important firm, bespeaking for IL
a career of unlimited success in its trade
and among the dealers of South Central
Kansas and of Oklahoma