The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-26
The Results Of a Good Crop and a
Prosperous Season Being
Felt by the Merchant.
Trade IL Better Than Last Year
While Collections Are Nas-
Ter In All Branches.
The improvement Has Been Gradual, hut
tho Outlook Was Mover B~etter-Talks
with Wholesalers.

vests, proHthpio cAttAc SAAeS oHu A0ausoAA0
returns from the quartz and placer mines
in Montana. are being felt. Of course the
change from a season Of stagnation IL not
coming in a tidal wave, but the past four
weeks have witnessed in Helena and
throughout all Montana q gradual loosen
ing mp Of the money market. Old obliga-
tions are being mat and a great deal OF
money il daily becoming free to be used in
improvements and enterprises which have
been retarded by the monetary stringency.
Merchants, in all lines, report
collections better than for a
year, while the local banks find
the demand for loans much less than for
some time. The excellent feature of the
situation il the change for the better in the
farming, stock-growing and mining SEQ
tions. All the Helena jobbing houses mite
in saying that their outside trade is ahead
of any previous year; that their orders are
larger and accounts which have been stand
ing for some time are now being settled.
II was not to be expected that there would
be a sudden change from dullness to unus-
nal activity; in the first place the r%anchmen.
while they have largo crops, will not dis
pose Of their hay, oats or winter vegetables
all at once. But there is a market
for their produce. and all through the win
ter sales will continue. As a result in the
spring the Montana ranchnan will have
hundreds Of dollars where he has cents to.
day. So with the woolRrowers and stock
The former have in a large ma
iority of cases sent their wool east on con-
signment, and it may be sixty or ninety
days, or even longer, before they receive all
the money for their clip. The cattlsmen
ara already in receipt of a large part of the
revenue from the sale of beeyss. and it is
this money, added to what has been taken
out of the quartz and placer mines,
which has SO changed the business
situation in Montana the past thirty days.
OF the ten or twelve millions Montana will
receive his year from cattle, wool. sheep,
horses and mines, but a small proportion is
vet in circulation, but it Is as surs to come
between now and spring as the sun is to
rise: and when it does, it will 6nd invest
ment in hundreds Of enterprises, large and
small, which will give employment to thou
sands of people, not only in the immediate
vicinity, but all over the state. In tho
meantime the opinion of the best informed
men in Helena, those who have largo inter-
ests in many sections, is that there will be
a continuous improvement and increasing
prosperity all through the winter. This is
the way one of the dealers who were asked
about business, talked yesterday.
D.. p. Patenaude, manager Of the A. M.
Hotter Hardware company-Our business
for the year shows quite an increase over
that of last season. The increase comes
largely from out of tow and in a great
part from the smaller operators, while our
trade with the larger concerns about holds
its own. This indicates to Us a healthy
growth. From Barker and Neihart We ars
in receipt of large orders; in fact all over
the state the outloo is very bright, and we
confidently look forward to a very good
business.
Wise & Goodkind-While there is no per
ticular increase in the volume Of our city
trade, our business as a whole shows up
bet ter than last year; collections are much
easier, and tho outlook altogether is very
favorable.
Bach, Cory & Co.-As a rule we expect a
good trade in the fall, but for the past thrse
or four weeks it has been better eyen than
WI hoped. Both OUT city and outside trade
is greater than last year, while collections
are much better. The completion of the
Occur d'Alene cutoff has brought US more
trade, and We are in receipt Of quite a num-
forward to a good fall and winter trade.
Harris Bros, clothiers-We have nothing
to complain of in the matter of fall trade.
City business about holds it's own with last
year, but there il a good growth in out of
town business over that Of last year. Our
shirt factory, in which we will have twenty !
five girls at work next week, is also doin9a /
good business, and if it continues to grow
as at present it will not be long before it
will give employment to twice as many.
While we are talking of trade there is one
thing 1 would like to say; and
that is, that Montanians should
p%atronize home industry. You can have no
idea of the hundreds of thousands of dol
lars sent out every year for things which
We can and do produce within our borders.
Let our merchants buy their showcases
and fittings from a home institution. They
are better. and just as low in price as any
shipped in. If a man or woman wants
wearing apparel, if they will try home in
situations before sending way, they will be
convinced they can do just as we'll in the
state.
G. r. Perry u Co., soap manufacturers
We are selling more goods than at any
time since we began business. August was
our banner month. and l believe September
will exceed it. Merchants with whom I am
brought in contact look forward to a good
fall and winter trade.
Grand opening of millinery goods on
Wednesday and Thursday next at Miss