Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1901-10-17

sept. ~, lSOl." we ma the To-
tai loans and discounts Of the Bry-
an banks are $500, 707.74, and the
total loans and discounts Of the
| Navasota banks are 1926, 3l0.5S,
showing this item with the Bryan
banks to be s23S, 1915 heaviest,
or more than double that Of Nav
rsota. Passing on TO the item OF
individual deposits subject 10
check, which shows the real bust
ness status Of the two towns, the
Eagle finds that the Bryan banks
have individual deposits, subject
to check, aggregating s5O0,6S5.19,
and the Navasota banks have in
diyidual deposits, subject to check,
aggregating s2lS,044.69. The diff
ference In favor of Bryan is 1882,
6l0.50. Here, again, Bryan more
than doubles Navasota, and right
here the Eagle challenges any town
in Texas, not exceeding 5000 in
population, to show up such rec
ord as a business center.
Now we have another incident 10
relate regarding the advantages Of
Bryan as a trading point Mr..
Samuel Levy is authority for the
statement that Mr.. G. w. Carr,
the well-known travelling man who
resides at Navasots, recently pur.
chased about $500 worth Of furni.
ture from Levy Bros, Of Bryan,
and the latter paid the local freight
on the furniture TO Nayasota and
the expense Of sending man down
there TO put it up. Mr.. Carr, who,
as stated, lives at Navasota and
travels for Houston firm, was
posted on prices add compliment
ed the Bryan firm on competing
successfully even with Houston.
In a word, the Bryan dealers can
afford so sell furniture TO Navasota
people and give them free delivery
the same as to local customers.
Before closing this article, the Ea-
gle feels that, in justice to a re
spectacle citizen Of North Grimes
county; to the business interests
Of Bryan, and 10 the paper itself,
reference should once more be
made to the barbed wire incident
published in these columns about
two weeks ago. At that time The
Eagle said
"Mr. w. r. Johnston of this
city is authority for the statement
that last week a gentleman from
North Grimes went TO Navasota
aud sold his cotton, and having
occasion to purchase a lot Of Baker
barb wire he went 10 a dealer
there and priced the article.
Thinking the price too high he
went to the long distance phone
and calling up Mr., Johnson, stated
that they asked him $3.50 per
hundred pounds for the wire down
there, and he wanted to know the
price here. Mr.. Johnston ascer.
tanned and promptly replied that
he could get the same wire here at
SO So per 100 pounds. As a re.
suit, the gentleman took the money |
he got for his cotton in Navasota |
and bought 1000 pounds at a total
saving Of So 90 below the Navasota |
price,
This statement having been de.
MED and denounced as fake, Mr.. |
NJ. w. Wheeler, the gentleman re-
ferred to, who was here, along with
scores of other Grimes county peo-
pie to see the big circus, (which
gave two performances at Bryan
and one at Navasota) and do their
trading, kindly gives the Eagle the
affidavit:
Bryan, Texas, Oct. s, 190l.-Be.
fore me, the undersigned authority,
on this day personally appeared NJ.
w. Wheeler, and after being by
me duly sworn, says that some
time during the month Of Septen-
Der, 1901 he was in Navasota,
Grimes county, Texas, and wished
10 purchase 500 pounds Of barbed
wire and that IL was priced 10 him
by a merchant Of said Navaso,a AZ