The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-01

III the city mas dropped oenlno dhe showing iof
the previous year.
The following interviews ,ob ained ~ q Posr.
INTELLIGEScER reporter wit5 the represent
aiives OF most of the leading fobbing houses in
the city, indicate the general satisfactory condi-
ton of business and the uniS ersal belief that
still greater prosperity is in store for the year
1893 A representative of Schs abacher Bros
CO., said:
This has been one of the slost satisfactory
years the jobbing trade here 2hGs ever expe-
rienced. The lies in the saet that the ter
ritory into which We are shipping goods is con-
stantly growing larger. OF coarse the result is
more jobbing houses every yeas and more bust
ness Tor those aireaGy established, thereby
making the city jobbine csnter which
in many respects cannot be Surpassed on the
Coast Seattle today has almost entire control
of the Alaska trade and it wal be but a shcrt
time before every dollars worth of goods
the completion OF the Great Ntzrthern, territory
heretofore shut out on accounted lack OF trans
pOrration facilities will be tribatary to this city
almost exclusively and in retuSn for the goods
shipped from here We must surnish market
for the natural products OF az this vast terri
tory. thus making business bot:l ways Every
merchant now on Puget sound ia doing
business on legitirnst7 basis and
this has been the case only within
the past six or eight months. The
abnormal growth OF business eiter the big fire
resulted in a reaction which leB its marx, and
it was necessary TO sell goodS with extreme
caution. rs there was very hele in sight on
the move forward again. Wig brighter out
look tor an active coal trade, good demand for
all the shingles we can produce here, the prob.
ability of a-better market for gar lumber and
the trade from the vast mining districts about
to be opened up. Seattle Is in position
uneQualed by any other city ION the Pacific
more business this year than it gid last and we
feel that 1898 promises even greater increase
over 1892 The development which will take
place on the Sound within the slext ten years
can hardly be imagined, much less estimated,
but believe the progress which has been made
the past ten years will seem eothing in COM
parison. AS the actual term!uu5 of four lines
OF transcontnental roads, Seattl2 IN ten years
will occupy position in comtaerciai and i'll
dustrial Importance second to n.ne In the West.
c. /. Webb, president and manager OF Webb &
Co., incorporated, said:
Our trade has been fully IS ger cent heavier
than last year. Our tea and edgar trade has
been especially heavy, and we have extended
our trade into a large amount s.f new territory.
re aim to meet the coInpetitiors of san Fran
cisco and Portland and are in a rS,siton TO do So
The result has been constais growth in the
territory tributary to Seattle a;i'Ea crowding out
of san Francisco and Portland kouses. We feel
that the prospects for 1898 are better still.
James Gosh, manager of tie Cosh-Murray
Company, incorporated, said:
We are comparatively young. zbut our bust
ness has grown very rapidly II mas really sur
passed our expectations this scar, but, of
course we shouid like 10 have : even heavier
still, and we hope it will be xEyear. | think
the completion of the Great Nortaern will give
Seattle joobers sn Opportunity t'eget established
in II great deal OF new territory. We do not at
tempt to work up any trade i'll OSegou, but
insist ON Portland and san Frencsco houses
keeping out of Washington, and2we have been
emphas lzing this by meeting Their competition
aud driving them out
E. A. Mcdonald, manager O. the Crescent
Creamery Com pany, said:
We have only had our brancn house estab-
lshed here about five months. het our trade has
been very satisfactory during tbs: time. 1t has
increased about - per cent each month over
the preceding month. l think ezerything is on
a soIld basis now. Business ha,s to go through
a sweat. as II were-that Is, IL ma: TO go through
q reaction. 1t went clean back l. bedrock, aud
from now on IL must be solid groSth.
c. H. CLARK. of the firm of Spencer & Co, said:
oar business has been better tlaan ever before.
and the indications are that 1t syiU be much
better stlll next year.
Speaking for the steamboat business. Charles
Fl. Pennington, manager OF tEe Pennington
Transit Company. said:
We are carrying about the sane amount OF
goods as last year. but the pr0nts are about y
per cent. less. This is due la th~ cutting down
o; rates owing 10 the competitizn OF the rail
roads and the extreme mpetiu "a between the
boats tor the freight going by WAGER.
Capt. J. A Hatfield gave it IS hss opinion that
the amount of freight moving By water on the
Sound had been cut down oDe-hEif by the COM
petition OF the railroads He sal, wharfage and
water transportation rates had be- n cut down TO
a point where there was a5soiuts!y nothing in
either the steamboat or wharf busuess
IF Bogardus, OF the firm OF l=iIly, Bogardus
& Co, said:
Our business, on the whole. was a little hesv-
Ter than IL was last year Our legal trade WAS
somewhat lighter, but we shppesl great deal
more, so that IL more than made :up the differ
ence. II Is hard To say what Ihs coming Year
will bring, but look for sosle further I'M
provement. 10 say the least
A c. Fry, head OF the firm OF Z c. Fry & Co.
said:
our trade has been little better than IL was
last year. Our shipments were Seayler and
look Tor constant growth IN thiszoutsde trade