The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-06
WHOL LESALE GROCERY TRADE
 SHOWS INCREASE OF 5OPER CENT

,anta. if easily outranlcs Nashville. or Pfrnninrham and for that matter New Orleans. This at least is -he clam made for it. whether the claim is or is not disputed.
 ted if can not be disputed that Mont romery does an annual wholesale gro cery business of more than ten million doJiars. Nor can it be disputed that the wholesale grocery business Mont- gomery as large as 1t was in i've years ago has increased perhaps fifty per eent in those five years.
 Big Years .Business.
 There are wholesale grocery houses in Montgomery which easily do mill lion and half dollars worth Of busi- ness every year and their names could be set down were it necessary. But ot the wonderful progress, of the remark- able prosperity of Montgomery ln tne psst five years, 1t is herein intended to show that the wholesale grocery trade has gotten it's share. if in truth, 1t has not gotten more than its share.
 An observant Montgomeriari, one whose daily life is spent in the thick of the city's business activity, IS quot ed as saying:
 romery. the wholesale grocery business ans the wholesale hardware business are the only two businesses which have developed as they should have develop ed they are the only two lines of the city's business which have kept pace with the development of the city. Other lines are behind the city's general pros perity. The causes behind the commercial development which the observant Montgomerfan discered and pointed out are not difficult of finding. or course the splendid natural advantages of Montgomery as. distributing point are so patent that it IS only necessary to mention them for them to be appre' l ciated and realized at their full worth | Rut these splendid natural advantages | so apuarent. after all only amord 2 Na1d in which brains and money are | riven an opportunity to go to work | Montgomery has advantages, equally | rich, equally splendid, for other nnes II hut the other lines have failed to grow | SO fast or develop so quickly.
 l How 1t Developed.
 nMontaomery's . wholesale grocery husiness has grown so rapidly and srread SO widely. first. because 1t has | always had plenty of capital behind It | and second, because the business has
 been intelligently and energeticaily 1T | nushed." said SydI.sy J. Winter, of the | large wholesale house of Winter, Loeb and Company. T may ray that ma ioritv of the ygealthiest Montgomerians | are behind this business. It is as you can readily appreciate business which I requires large capital -n Mentgomery | it has so happened that the wealthy men. the men of means have been and are engaged in the wholesale grocery
 .vThe wholesale grocery business in Montgomery has reached it's present proportions, to give the second reason because the wholesale men have con tinually, systematically and intelli' | gently pushed their business. They | have been quick to see an opportunitS for the widening of Montgomery's bus mess territory. Whenever new rail road was built whenever a new coun- try began to grow the Montgomery l wholesale grocers have been quick tc get at the opportunity. They have widened and improved their business not only by pushing out of the ole fields into the new fields, but they have increased 1t by adding new linei to their trade and urging these new lines on customers | To come back to the splendid ad
 vantages which have been alluded to
 only a glance at a map IS neeessar. | to see these same advantages giver
 Montgomery by its position. by its nat
 ural location and by the artificial aid
 which have come to it in its eight! years of existence, which brains ant
 work have wrought It is very nea the center of the State. It Is the yer!
 heart of agricultural Alabama. It |
 on the Alabama river. And for tbi
 alone the railroads have to give
 river rates, for the Alabama is nav
 ieaIole stream And so Montgomer,
 comes to have better freight rates thai
 many of it's would be rivals and hayini
 better rates is able to outstrip then
 in the race for business.
 Fine Agricultural Territory.
 And being the center of the State
 as we'll having behind 1t the riches
 agricillturaI territory of Alabama an
 one of the very richest of the entir South, it has come to be q great rail