The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-09-01
The Situation During the Past Year
Very Favorable.
N INCREASE IN MANUFACTURING.
The Many Articles that Are Now Made 10
This City.
WHAT THE BANK cLEARINGs SHOW
Some statistfcs Of Bu6aIo Bayou
Trafhc-views of the Trade sit
unti0n in General.

| Houston's general trade during the past
| year has been good, and the volume Of
business transacted was perhaps ahead of
all previous records. 1t is true that there
was dizziness in some lines, but the situ-
| alton as whole has been very favorable
AS 1obbing center Houston has supe-
rior facilities to any town in the State.
Tho advantages of shipping and distribu-
ton to be secured here are well known to
the trade. and Il Is for this reason that
many of the larger Eastern manufac-
turers make this city their distributing
point for all TeSas.
In wholesale lines there has pesn good,
even trade for the past twelve months.
Groceries, fruits and produce. confection-
cry grain and hay, lumber, hides and WOOL
machinery, hardware glassware and
ctockery packing house products, agricul-
tural implements, farm, gin and mill ma
chnery, drugs and artists materials,
harbed wire, wagons. carriages and bug
giles, furniture and carpets wines and
liquors, dry goods and notions, engines and
boilers, harness and saddles. paints and
oils, stoves and tinware are some OF the
lines largely represented in Houston. A
heavy business is done by firms handling
these goods, and Houstons wholesale trade
Is constantly increasing not only in vol
ume, but in the great variety of articles
that are sold.
Another line of trade that has shown a
remarkable increase during the past year
Is home manufacturing. There is a greater
industrial activity in Houston today than
in any other city in the state. Factories
started here few years ago on little or
no capital ere now shipping goods to all
parts Of the state. while new industries
arc gradually being added to the list
iph mi yh nla al OH no
home factories every encouragement and
handle their goods exclusively whenever
possible.
Some of the articles made or manufac-
tured in Houston are: Brass and iron
castings, brick and thing, brooins, confec-
tlonery, car wheels, wagons and buggies,
tents and awnings, baking powder and
billings, soaps, beer, bed springs, mat
tiesses, engines and boilers, cigars, CTS
terms, barrels and tanks, tin, sheet iron and
copper ware, stoveplpe and elbows, cotton
seed OIL meal and cake, harness. and sad
dies, macaroni and vermicelli, moasses,
vinegar, jelies and preserves, flour and
meal, packing house products, pickles and
catsups, refrlgerators. roofing material,
mantcls, sash. doors and blinds, silver and
plated wares, trunks, shirts and under
wear.
The above is quite list of articles, but
everything enumerated is milled or manu-
featured In this city. II shows that Hous-
ton is progressing in the line of industrial
development, and gives some idea OF tho
great variety OF articles that are needed
for the Texas trade. This is not one
tenth OF what the city should manufacture.
however. and does not at all test the clty's
capacity for manufacturing. There sie
dozens and dozens of other factories that
are needed here, and their introduction Will
mean much for the growth and progress of
the city.