The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-07-20
BUSINESS GAIN
In HAND COUNTY
Nearly Half Million in Livestock and
Cream Mt Miller I'm Half Year

Writers in the leading papers and
magazines of the country have been
recording indications of returning
business revival for the past six
months. But up to the present time
few local papers have taken up the
subject In their own localities.
In a local survey made this week
the Press finds that it can corroborate
the statements of writer's above refer
red to. A comparison of practically
every channel of business activity
shows q favorable trend upward in
1922 from the low point of 1921.
Perhaps the business barometer
that responds most readily to a COM
munity's and ups downs is the local
postoffice. The highest altitude of
business as well as the peak Of prices
occurred in 1919 and 1920. Through
the courtesy of Postmaster McCullen
we give the total business of the Mil
Ter Office for the three months Of
April, May and June:
Total receipts, spring quar-
ter, 1872 ----------- ~ 2,444.S7
Total receipts, spring quar-
ter, 1871 -------- ------- 2,110.35
Total receipts, spring quar-
ter, 1870 --------- ------ 2,424.63
Total receipts, spring quar-
ter, 1917 ----------- 1890 2,645.65
A glance at these figures will dis
close the fact that the Miller postal
business Is not far from normal i'm its
first quarter Of the fiscal year of 1922,
which begins April LIST.
In h money order department,
which is entirely separate from the
above, WI have these figures:
April, May, June, 1922 $40, 636.SS
April, May, June, 1921 ---- S,291.93
April, May, June. 1920 - 12,427, %
The prediction is readily acceptable
that by another yea this business so
closely associated with all the people
of a community, will show a complete
return to normal conditions. In fact
II might reasonably be claimed to have
reached that point already, as the fig
ures of highest comparison were
those of abnormal conditions, consid-
erably above pre-war totals.
This Is but gne instance in the bust
ness life of this community, but many
more could be had. In fact, practi-
cally all business people report the
HTSS HAIL VI 1879 10 Ue all lmpTONp-
ment over the first half of 1921.
We may well imagine the casual
reader saying: That's all right, but
where did the money come from to
create this upward trend in the COM
munity's business life?" Thirty years
ago we would have looked up the
shipments OF grain, as that was prac-
tically the pioneers only product, but
today the mixed" products of Hand
county are demanding a place upon
the business stage.
Livestock Shipments
From January /, 1922, to July /,
there were ISL cars of livestock ship
ped at the Miller staten, upon which
experts in that business place a value
of 1904, 043 90, divided as follows:
38 cars of cattle ----$ 65,91S.00
1873 cars hogs ----- 2~1S.125.00
10 cars horses ------ 2 100000
Total ----$ 3O4, 043.O0
The pioneers would tell us that
thirty some years ago they had no
such products to count on among
their farm receipts, and this state
ment Is correct, because the records
show that in 1890, thirty-two years
ago, the c. & N. w. Ry. shipped from
Miller n lone car of cattle.
Cream and Butter Shipments
During the first half Of 1922, the
cream dealers of Miller bought 1918
can of cream, at a value OF $70,313.39
In this same half year the Miller
Creamery manufactured and sold IT,
995 pounds of butter, worth $53 1854,
and ice cream to the amount of So
044.00, as per the following details:
1913 cans OF cream--.----$ O,313.39
1T 1896 lbs. butter $500 53.726.S4
4,044 gals. ice cream - 5,044.00
Total .---$ 1923, 0S4.23
This gives us a grand total in s
months put Of two products alone,
and those two products are the
growth Of but one generation.
Livestock total ---------$ .304, 043.00
Cream products - 129, 0S4.23
Grand total 1913 433, 127.23
And this, reader, is the record of
but one shipping point handling the
county's products, whereas there are
some ten railroad stations from which
Hand county products are shipped to
market.
With these facts before us, we can
safely say that locally we are on the
up grade. and that by the time the
1922 products r marketed, which
will be between May LIST and June LIST,
1928, this locality will be back to its
normal prosperity. And what other
country on earth but the good old
u. s. A. could show such a marvellous
recovery. after an expensive and dis
astrous world Wa!