| Show R A Barney Merchant If a man mares a phenomenal success in business luring a ptnol of increasing general depression we mtnrill ask what would he hue done had the times been normal or I prosperous Mr R A Barney came to Provo in 1889 and began business under the tirm name of Irvine M Barney The fictitious period of prosperity generally known is the boom sub I sielcel down to the mud line ere these gentlemen luel f nrl got started start-ed The hid moreover iniiif uritcd II hat IIIS new to Irovo tride a special line of goods mil this is ilwas difficult m a country town It is characteristic of their energy and determination that the did not for a moment dream of giving up their plans Indeed the exigencies of those early ears when business houses were collansing all around them no doubt developed resources m manigcment which a smoother period of trade would h ive left dormant dor-mant At an rate the business gre v rapidly rap-idly right from the stirt In I eb ruar 1895 Mr Dirney purchased II his partner interests and in a short time his trade increased to such an Y extent that he found it c > e divide hli s stock nuK I in Act One of the i plctc line of men s r gents fiirii lung good i splenetic i is ortment lt c anil i complete I I line ntor elr goods j store is pcrli equipped store south 01 alt I Cit Ill CitMr Mr Ilarney s bus n Sw I are summed up when if he I aim to clear his shel times i veir 0 ice con d tiI a cert un line ol goods rage he buys enough i a elo7cn stores uneler > ld1l1 cum inces then aeUcrti a site giving I suchaste i I tint his counters ire di customers Irom ill over His I goods ire dm Uneler no circuinstin 1 induced totrielc in die k wires lIe i e kIY I leUertibing descrptio III methods he has educated he u public I into itching III 1 III 111 < ud when thereloic 1 II rclole eve v < k tllofor he does not I PtI iuka messenger boy 1 es d announcement md pn at door it is received mth II J Mr Barney is WI Jnly resent e merchant ho represent le citIZen nd heen prominent ihe 1I1U affus of Provo ever Sllle came to the cit |
