The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-29

| Each one opens up new field and
We must make up our minds to let all
come that appear willing, whether il
be an interurban or regular freight
and passenger railroad If they should
want the best entrance to our city and
we cannot get them without it, then
say give them all they ask for.
If Cairo was not blessed with sever
al railroads as it now is we would not
be recognized as a profitable distribu-
ting and manufacturing center
Nothing will benefit us more than
the Cairo & Thebes, because ii opens
vast territory within $50 miles of
Cairo which We have not been able To
reach heretofore, yet its officers who
were public spirited enough to give
M much of their time and attention
to the building of this road, have been
fought from the time the plans were
made public and are being fought TO,
day by interests that are in shape 10
turn the business we would get from
this new field to one or our large cit
les.
With all the railroads we have, can
name several points within 30 miles OF
our market that we cannot reach pro
fitably because of the slow service
we get on shipments going from Cairo
to these points.
Second--Cairo's greatest asset is the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, yet VIC
have a lock and key on these advant'
ages in the way of a high taxed wharf
age privilege.
Many boats using these waters
would stop here for supplies were II
not for the high landing rates they
have to pay ANY OF our merchants
| figuring on inboundrates will tell you
that they pay one-fourth as much fol
the privilege of landing freight at our
wharf as they DO for the freight on a
great many items This same thing
Cairo by way of steamboat, and for
| this rtason | believe that one OF the
largest packet lines In the western
waters is giving advantages in rates
to two large nearby markets for 1t is
known fact that they will take bust
ness from either or these markets,
haul it by Cairo to nearby points at
the same rate they will take it from
Cairo.
We should have, like Paducah, st.
Louis, Cincinnati Louisville, Memphis
and most all other river cities, a free
wharf, owned and controlled by the
city government and the merchants OF
Cairo would be better off if they sub
scribed funds to buy this wharf privil.
ege and donated it to our city.
Third-This city, both from the
bankers and merchants standpoint,
feels the need of public bonded
warehouse, Besides the many advant-
ages gained by the banker and the
merchant, warehouse company can
secure an unlimited amount of storage
from outside concerns. Many manu-.
lecturers selling goods in small guam
Titles to the smaller towns within a
radius of $50 miles of our city would
like to have nearby distributing car
load center. This not only enables
them to supply their trade through
busy seasons on short notice, but
saves them a great deal in freight be-
cause of the fact that they can ship to
Cairo in car load lots and reship in
local lots, saving them the difference
of local freight rates from their points
through to destination.
The writer would advocate a stock
company lin which all lines were
stockholders sufficiently large to
build a public warehouse and in cor.
nection, business houses for the job
bling interest, all located in one block
and on the railroad tracks.
Stop Panic Talk
There is no question in my mind
but that the business of Cairo will
grow, and the volume increase this
year the same as ii has been doing for
several years past Some are pessi
mistic enough in their views to tell us
that we are all going broke because
Of the November panic, but this is
all talk and we are all talking too
much about the evil effects of the so.
called November panic, and not study
ing and telling about the good We
have derived from it,
For several months, yes two or
three years, the business OF the coun-
try was going along at a break neck
speed-values had reached a higher
point than was ever known, and the
commercial interests of the United
States were excited as whole. and
got to the point where they felt as
il there was no end to high prices and
boom business" and as most of us
should look at il today ii might be !,
to a person that had been |
sick for long time and finally secured |
a physician that gave him an awful |
nan, dirty dose of medicine, and while |
I was a bitter dose II was just what /
he commercial and business interest |
needed. and brought about the desired /
fleet
Even though ii did come from the |
banker and stock gam
Dler of Wall Street. ii made us wake !,