The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-17
JOBB|NG TRADE IS
 MAKING FINE GAINS
Murray Brown Says It Is Bet
 ter Than Ever
ALL WORKING TOGETHER
object of Wholesalers Is to Show Ala bama Merchants That Birmingham Is Great Jobbing Center and
 Can Supply all Needs

The jobbing trade in Birmingham has increased very materially over last year and the past few weeks have witnessed | exceptionally good business. Since get
 together meeting of the jobbers was held at the Country club several weeks ago, re-
 newed interest has been manifested in ef- forts to secure jobbing orders here. It is held by the local jobbers that every com
 modity that may be wished for can be ob-
 tained in Birmingham, and that there Is
 absolutely no need for merchants to order
 their shipments outside the state. It is
 to make Birmingham jobbing center for
 every line, and the merchants engaged in
 these lines are working to that one com
 mon end.
 Murray Brown, of Goodall, Brown &s
 Co.,, who is an enthusiastic believer in the
 possibilities of this city as a great jobbing
 center. said yesterday that business
 among the dry goods people was fine. He
 said that more goods had been sold in
 June than in any June since he had been
 In business. He also stated that up to
 and including yesterday at noon, which
 closed the first half of July, business had
 been better than any month of July since
 he had been in business.
 ''It is simply the result of conservative
 buying by the retail merchants. We do
 not claim that this phenomenal business
 is result of more consumption" said MT.
 Brown.
 Tt is nothing more than that the mer-
 chants are allowing us to become their
 warehouse. We have been preaching that on behalf of Birmingham jobbers for years, and just now we are coming into the reward. We have received mid-season orders by the gross during the past six weeks. The merchant would find that he required a certain line as it had run short. He calls on us to supply his needs. We invite him to look over the stocks, and the average merchant Is amazed that every jobbing line Is carried in full right | here in Birmingham. The merchant per- haps would simply want a few hundred bolts of goods, but as he found that this | city can supply him without going off to other markets, he placed the order To- cally We have been trying for years to get the merchants to come to Birming- | ham, and understand that we can handle every line that they may call for. We have been asking them to let us assume | the responsibility for the heavy stocks, I but up to the past few months the mer- chants have given us little chance to as- sert our claims. Now 1t Is different. Con- servative buying has resulted in many merchants. coming in that never knew | Birmingham was a good-sized jobbing center They have found that they nes-i | only write and we will supply every want | The result Is the trade has frightened to the wonderful gains that have just men, | toned It is all for Birmingham in the | long run. If we prosper the other firms | will prosper as 1t Is cooperative af-
 fair It is our ambition to make Bir-
 mingham a center for trading. and wher
 we realize this ambition Birmingham vii have double the bank clearings that have
 grown in such fashion during the past l few years"
 | In addition to MT. Brown, the general impression among the wholesale trade who "sell to merchants only' Is that trade is very much better. They all agree, too, that 1t Is a result of conserva- | tive buying on the part of the retail mer- chants. The jobbers have come together | and 1t is doubtful If there Is any set Of
 men who have gone after business with more determination.