The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-31
7E WHOLESALE TRADE. or MINNEAPOLIS PROSPER
Experienced h d anne Enrun

f Your best record is still ahead of
you. Our is in the past. y
$50 remarked Boston wholesale
merchant who visited Minneapolis, a
few weeks ago and looked over most of
her iobbing houses
"a He had been in the wholesale trade
at Boston many years. His father had
started the business before him. Like
many OF the wholesale houses of the
east, his was a house with a history but
llmlUed IN prospects.
In Minneapolis .iobbing history is q
scare article, but prospects are plentiful.
While spying out the land this Boston
wholesaler had journeyed to the west
coast and had stopped off at Minneapo-
lis a second time on his way back home
He had Travelled west hugging the idea
that if you find a good opportunity in
the central northwest you will find a
northwest Many eastern business men
who have broken out of their shells and
travelled west of Pittsburg for the first
time bring that idea to the headwaters
OF the Mississippi. just west of here
they lose it. After their Journey vest
have far better opinion of this great
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mercantile enterprises. They return
realizing that this great territory served
by minneapolis is. from a wholesale
merchants standpoint, the country of
the future. They see that it has the
length and breadth, the broad acres to
support an immense population, the rail
ways to carry the products to market
and to distribute the merchandise, and
that there may come a day when that
territory will be greatly enlarged by
the disappearance Of few top boards
off the, high tariff fence along the Cam
adian line. :
Our Boston wholesaler had this in
mind when he said: "Your best record
is still ahead of you. Ours is in the
past. TO hold our business our. firm is
obliged to establish branch houses and
that in many lines of Jobbing is uncer-
tain. You have all immense territory
constantly increasing in wealth and
population. Your railways are. building
extensions rapidly, thereby keeping up
With the demands Of the population: t
actually step on the heels Of your
wholesalers during the next ten years. ~
Explanation in the Census Figures.
years will furnish one Explanation why
Minneapolis jobbing has increased so
greatly in that time. There. was a
time when Minneapolis jobbing was
more a subject for bright prediction
than for stories of actual achievement
or results: In those days faith in the
future of minneapolis jobbing was
strong in the hearts of her loyal citi-
zers. Today it is strong in the hearts
Of her thousands and thousands of adj
mirers thrusogntt tbs the land, as well as the
that span there is a splendid record of
achievement. Minneapolis has taken
rank as one Of the great distributing
centers Of the country. Her volume of
trade towers far into the hundreds of
millions Those early prophets have
been vindicated. The northwest has
proven the promised land for thousands
of eastern people, seeking a start in life
and an opportunity to make something
better than living. AS they have in
creased and prospered, their wants, and
progressed toward Easy. Street, they
have bought better merchandise and
the better merchandise always pays a