Show DRUMMERS Way Down Upon the Sanpete SANPETE Co June 10th 1883 Editors Herald As an exhibition of more than ordinary patience Job of biblical fame Is heralded by parents and merchants The unconquerable runner of eastern houses is largely on the increase in-crease at thejexcelleut hostelerey the Snowflake House at Manti I counted four and more to arrive The commodities were well spread and the prices promised to be below anything heretofore offered A I whole day will be devoted to call I upon the storekeeper to come and see if only to see it is 0 K tam I t-am here from Chicago to show you just what our house can do Persistency Per-sistency wins patience badgered An order is given and that order will have to be met with cash while perhaps an open account stands in some of your city merchants mer-chants book whose order and its prompt cash was tneirs for they carried this very man from infancy to manhood through many grades of arrerages The evil of scattering patronage is sometimes fraught with disaster I know of one house who stood on the awful brink of a collapse consequent I conse-quent on this prompt cash to a new house while notes matured were much in the rear The house that had nursed and nourished the beginner had even honored its demands for goods had sometimes been a depository though rare but frequently a heavy creditor cred-itor said trade with us in our line concentrate with us give us your cash all you can and we will carry you scatter and we demand a settlement set-tlement a picture not overdrawn Do these eastern gents bear any of the expenses of our local government govern-ment dor they contribute a moity of the tax on trades for roads and schools or do they not these gents of the road draw our cash to beautify beau-tify Chicago or farther east The necessity of hotel accommodation accommo-dation is somewhat on the increase in the city of Minti It would almost seem that a growing necessity neces-sity was pushing above ground for a wholesale house here Perhaps the advent of the narrow guage to our centres of trade will give this item more color form and substance If we are determined to wean ourselves our-selves from our foster mother Salt Lake we may as well have no expensive ex-pensive intermediaries but come direct to us But above all things let us be just The heavily laden runners wagon of your leading houses are on the alert and I see no reason why the cheekiness of the Chicagoan tho solidity of th Philadelphian Phila-delphian the positiveness of the New Yorker should not be met by the Utonian I must mention the products of the Prove Mills so gentlemanly exhibited ex-hibited by Mr Cutler and his wares so worthy of patronage excellent in color fabric but a little more Fullers soap would give these productions pro-ductions a growing demand and the concentration of wealth and consequent conse-quent diversified machinery use up diversified wool now being shipped and by being retained at home diversified di-versified fabrics made With gentlemanly gen-tlemanly traveling agents the waterpower water-power of the Timpanogas might be made to nearly supply our Territory Terri-tory with woolen fabrics One mammoth affair now so well conducted con-ducted is preferable to driblets especially es-pecially if driblets do not pay Todayat iNephi met your young townsman Spencer Clawson armed and equipped for tradewith a wagon load of samples His modesty in answer to my query How are you doing was shown in his answer From fair to middling Such as he a twelvemonth in trade it is well and safe to encourage He is of from and for this people Perhaps the tormentors of Brother Job will be after D C |