The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-06

 an additional appropriation of S50b,0004 If this sum should pc given to the work. the Alabama river would then be put In excellent conoi- tion-
 This will make the Alabama River an important factor in the work or re. adjusting freight rates, in way thai will materially benefit the merchants or It will enable us to prins goods from the rivers port to the wnarI at Montgomery. Those goode can pc shipped from the Eastern coast, py water rates all the way from Bostoh to Mobile.
 Tn this connection would draw at- tention to the wise communication or Mayor W. M. Teague to the City Coun- ell describing the poor condition ol tne present wharf and asking for the con struction of an entirely new whart so far as ! have been able to learn the Council unanimously endorses the clear out recommendation of the Mayor on this important question. In Tact l pc lieve Montgomery Is now assured or first-class wharf.
 For a New Wharf.
 "The Council as see it, seems Will ling to recognize the great importance of the wholesale trade of Montgomery, This wholesale business has assumed great proportions In recent years. As great as the business was nye years ago am convinced that 1t has grown 50 per cent. since then. It has been de- yeloped to It's present state by the large capital invested in 1t, which enables the wholesalSr to purchase large quan- titles of goods at a time and at the same time to secure advantages or all possible discounts. The big traoe has been won by treating tho trade fairiy, and by keeping such large stocks ana by looking we'll to tho quality ana me ness of the goods sent out. These large stocks have enabled the Montgomery merchants to fill orders promptly, TOT frequently when a man orders he wants the goods at once. Under these con ditions and by the operation or these policies we have come into our present splendid trade. may say, too, that the outlook for the future is bright ana for 1t we have good hopes.
 "sThe Montgomery Freight bureau think has materially helped the whole. sale business of Montgomery. Some or It's objects have already been achieved. We have inaugurated campaign TOT the readfustment of freight rates to Montgomery both from Eastern and from western points. In the year which has just closed we have succeeded In effecting some of the readjustments de- sired in reference to Western points
  the work of the Freight Bureau and we have strong hopes of success in other directions. Should we succeed in get ting the rates feadjusted as we hope to do. there will be a large increase in the wholesale business of Montgom- cry, especially where heavy goods are concerned.
 The Big Territory.
 "The extent of the wholesale trade territory of Montgomery. when all things are considered is. to say the least astonishing. It is astonishing that a. town of it's size and population should have trade territory wider than that Of any other Southern city except Memphis.
 'Tn the amount of wholesale business Montgomery is excelied by only one Southern city, the city of Memphis" said Emanuel Lobman, of Greil Broth- CTS Company, which Is not only one of the largest grocery concerns of Mont gomery, but one of the largest concerns of the entire South.
 'Tt is surprising, however, that thts should be so for perhaps no city, not even Memphis has more favorable To- cation. We have the Alabama River as Memphis has the Mississippi River and our splendid railroad facilities arc equal to those of any Southern city. Tn railroad facilities Montgomery IS peculiarly fortunate. For instance the tracks of two big Southern railroads run to our very doors and by this CIT lcumstance we are able to handle from sixteen to twenty car loads or goods m
 T am of the opinion that the esti- mate which places the annual business of Montgomery wholesale grocers al S10 100000, is conservative estimate Nor does that estimate include the bus mess done by in other lines of business which are more or less closely allied | to the wholesale trade. allude, for one thing to the enormous wholesale liouor business which is done with Montgomery as a center. Nor does it | include some of the nghter forms oi the grocery business as 1t were, the manufacture and sale of candy and the manufacture and sale or crackers m both lines It is nothing new to say that Montgomery does an enormous
 Tt is not generally known that Montromery+' has a trade territory oi 400 miles, that is the trade territory of Montgomery has radius or 2Ot miles, east, south. southeast anc northeast And more than tnlrty tav' cling men, representing Montgomery houses are kept at work filling and enlarRing that territory. As result we are already getting satisfactorS trade from parts of Georgia and Flor | Ida"
 Favorable Existing Conditions. l q may say that existing conditions are very favorable, aud that there Il every reason to believe that Tn th' coming year Montgomery's trade ter ritory will be wIdened and her year business largely increased"
 The quoted words of some Of tn largest wholesale grocers, in this tn second largest wholesale town or tn South, it Is hoped will give the reao ling public some idea at least of tn limmensity of the business. of whicI treatment has here been given Tn Interviews do not represent in full. b lany means, the number of Wholesal houses in the city doing grocery ous iness. There are other big wholesai grocery concerns which contrlout largely to the prosperity of Montgom
 cry such as Schloss and Kahn, W. N Hudson and Company, J. Loeo Grocer Company, Jones and Ray and Loeo an
 Company. And nothing has yet pee
 said beyend an allusion to the aIlle
 interest such as candy making and sell ing. cracker making and selling an the big wholesale liquor business.
 Nor should mention be made or tn lsubject without drawing attention [ the fact that the wholesale grocer
 business in Montgomery represent
 perhaps more organized ana aLle
 wealth than any other business In'SI s
 est of the city. and that US ieaoers n
 clude some of the wealtnlest, som
 of the most prominent and some {
 the most influential citizens of Mon
 gomery.