Show THESE DULL TIMS the business situation is made the source of some little disquietude if not dismay firms long regarded as solid and whose sales seemed to be remark ably good have gone to the wall in such rapid succession as makes things look squally equally and each successive one naturally enough leads leada to others not particularly because of the example or through sympathy but more we take it because stagnation is increased it if not engendered thereby there is material for reflection in this pro proposition post to what extent mens demeanor their countenances even may influence activity in commercial circles to la of course unknown but all who take the pains to observe compare corn pare aud and think will readily understand that such agencies do have their effect some of themore the more knowing ones are predicting a great business revival in the spring what it to is to be based upon or come fr in Is not shown it is observable however that these changes from lethargy to activity are always a season or so ahead probably because the fields are green that are far away ap it is at least possible though that such expressions do a great deal of good in the matter of forwarding ward ing the bond condition desired desire dand and those who are gifted in metaphysics and economics economic might be willing to say that one is a ms ared outgrowth of the other but as our sphere of information la in chuse two abstruse departments is painfully curtailed we will go no further than say we are willing to believe that there to is something iu it it A conning philosophic sort of per son once figured out the amount of financial business busina es which a five dollar bill properly handled could accomplish in a day A paid B the bill on a debt thus enlarging Bs capital to that extent making him feel correspondingly elastic and strengthening his confidence in A a pretty good beginning one would say B owed C something more than 6 5 but he paid that amount and thus kept his credit good so that he be cou could id get twice as much in materials and thus enlarge his own stock in trade whereby he be could du do an en barged bu business sinew C paid the bill to one or of his workmen for wages whereby a provision bill was paid by the latter and so soil it kept going util when the day had closed enough different persons had bad received and paid out that bill to impart at least the semblance of activity to the entire circle and the amount of valid transactions which the money bad accomplished reached well nigh a hundred dollars I 1 herein we see that it is not altogether the condition in which people really are that makes good or bad times and that the way they feel has very much to do with it also that it is not the amount of cash on hand that makes business lively and money apparently easy but the use to which we put what we have we will not venture upon so palpable a truism as to say that we have now as much money in the territory as we every had bad and only mention it as a kind of allary to the foregoing we might progress a step sted further by ing there them is more than ever before mod and not miss min the truth very much it if at all but suppose there were ton ten times more than there ever had bad been at any one time before yep a bu hundred adred times as an much and it were lying idle in vaults and other secure place places would the mere fact of its existence impart vigor to trade or give renewed life to enterprise certainly not on the other baud suppose there were much less leas and it were treat greatel elsome somewhat like the five dollar bill spoken of would that make a difference ot or a favorable character indeed it would this would seem to be the whole situation in a nutshell the territory for example is sadly in need of several more miles of rall railway and equipment and there is enough money to accomplish such work without having to float a bond 0 OIL negotiate the sale of one share of 0 of stock there are also a goodly number of men me v who are able and in many cases willing to work who claim they can find nothing to do the building of such roads would at least leave them with no excuse for remaining longer in the rauka of the croakers croake rc 12 so 80 that so much good would be accomplished at least and plenty othero athert could be found who would do the work these would spend their money principally among our business men and ibus impart a stimulating effect to them perhaps one of them on the verge of assigning on knowing that there was such a chance ahead of bt him M would bold his bis affairs together a while longer and then even a slight increase in his bis trade would enable him to continue con tinne until finally he would be out of the mire altogether whereas where ae if be were to go down some one else elee would conclude that he haj baj to go also and the more of this kind of thing the closer those that have al s are cash cling to it the sales of men must average within certain times depending on the amount of stok stock and character of the traded trade a certain percentage of the sums invested or the date of closing their doors to Is only a matter of how bow much or bow little they sire are willing to lose they cannot get this trade unless the great body of the people have cash or other consideration wherewith to buy and there as an a rule cannot have the means unless they obtain them from the channels of enterprise and speculation there to is money enough and to spare and if those who have it would only take the proper steps their InveRt investment ment would not only be bread mat upon the water but would be the means of brightening things up wonderfully |