The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20
GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM
a. q. MacCallum Says Anaconda
Is ALL Right.
WILL NOT GO TO SPOKANE
The Rumor That MacCallum 81 Cloutier
Would Establish a Store in Spokane
Is Denied by MIR. MacCallum.
Went There to Inspect.

The Spokane Chronicle and the Spo-
kane New West Trade are authorities
for the statement that the firm of Mac
Callum & Cloutier of Anaconda will
shortly establish a wholesale house in
that city. A. c. MacCallum of Mac
Callum G. Cloutier, however, denies the
rumor and says that there is not a
word of truth in it.
The item, as published in the Spo-
kane Chronicle, is as follows:
"One more big wholesale grocery may
be established in this city in the early
autumn. This time the capital for it is
to come from the east. A. C. MacCal-
lum, representing the big wholesale
and retail house of MacCallum & Clou-
tier of Anaconda, has been looking over
this city to see what opportunities it
offers to another firm and has been so
well impressed that he is to return to
Spokane in August and resume his in
vestigations.
"McCallum & Cloutier carry s200. 900
stock at Anaconda. They and several
Butte parties, whose names have not
been divulged, will put in the Spokane
house and, If present plans are adhered
TO- it will carry a stock amounting to
s25o, 900. Mr.. McCallum stated that If
they opened up they would depend upon
getting trade by doing everything that
IA jobber should do. He says they will
carry everything that retailer could
possibly want, and there will be no
Iexcuse for his going out of town to pur
Rhase goods.
AT first Mr.. McCallum was aston
eshed at the freight rate situation. 1t
almost caused him to abandon the pro-
eject, but upon investigation he was con-
WINGED that it was not freights alone
that held the margin of profits down
S1ere. He thinks that Spokane jobbers
are leaving the bars down to their COM
petitors by depending too much on sta
pie lines and not catering to the trade
hnore with special and fancy lines. A
"trip through the retail stores. their
shelves loaded down with Eastern
goods, he says convinced him of this"
Spokane jobbers who have built up
large businesses from small beginnings
need have no fear of the extra compe-
tition." says the New West Trade. The
field is growing, and the more houses
the more business there will be. The
railroad companies have to be assured
that the volume of business is in the
place or they will not reduce their rates.
Perhaps with few more large houses
pushing for trade, the volume will be
increased to their satisfaction and more
equitable rates may be obtained"
Mr.. MaCCallum said last night to a
Standard reporter:
There is not a bit of truth in this
item. l simply went there to visit the
wholesale and retail houses to find out
how things We're carried on and | could
not see a. single thing that we have to
learn from there. As for our establish
ing a house in Spokane there is no
truth in the report. l will remain right
here in Montana. Anaconda is good
enough for me.
The freight rates are too high in
Spokane. The railroad companies are
doing everything to protect the coast
merchants. For instance. if a Spokane
merchant receives goods from Chicago
he is forced to pay freight from Chicago
TO Seattle and then from Seattle to Spo-
kane. By this method a Seattle mer-
chant can sell his goods in Spokane just
as cheap as a Spokane merchant can"