Show the BUSINESS pat six weeks or more business in park never been known so dull in lie history of abe camp if trade wa dull here only there might be some plausible for complaint but everywhere the complaint has been the same all business men looked hopefully forward for lively times when sanne opened and in in an v I 1 call ties their hopes aro leeg fully realized but the depletion con j finues distressingly severe in numerous paces in large cities wholesale men are picking up ind are sending out large caracoes of roods to the junry ou nry merchants who in reality do not much of a change for the better but the are forced to pui chite pang in order to supply then custom ers with eaon able in farmers abc now busily engaged in putting in their crops and the very rarely tao the time to run to town and purchase good as they do when chev aie not presed with work 1 rom louice the does not expect much trade and unless the town in which he does busine s has a ver good cash custom he will be sore ly u ed or fund when 1 is li wines due butter and eggs is all 1 e receives or his goods mo t of and unless be is near a marl et or has a good demand for product at home when daiy diy comes he will find a hard row to hoo in manufacturing towns and mining camps the merchant generally fares much better than those depending up on their i custom from agricultural dis men employed 0 the and mine draw their pay monthly and if they are boap t men will pay their store ac counts which enables abe merchant to liquidate his obligations and business continue uninterruptedly fhe spring season ia generally considered pd a goad cne in mining towns aiom the fact tint as loon as abe mow melts away pros and mining companies in to work with renewed vigor wren they do this the merchant is called up on to supply bills of goods which had no doubt b cn lying in his cellar 01 on his for many weeks baiting tor this demand upon him dinv men obtain employment who hid been idle biot 0 the willei months and the mo ment they obtain they clothing and provisions pio visions in most of our mining towns the has been so mild that active work has begun on many properties and it hs nece aued a somewhat in business matters IS lui w 4 bui w v in the mountains as vet too deep and oft to admit of any active irions in mining matters and the consequent result here with us that haa not been spurred up much as ret but it must get better before long are too many mines onla transport heir ores fion fio n the mountains and when the weather permits this more men will be em floied and must be employed in order to make a good showing this summer every man engaged in business hera looks hopefully forward for a lively summer and from present indications trev have not air casties but a good thrifty summer before them grida ally rich mines an being by a slow and tedious operation but about midsummer the haidy old prospectors who have been housed through the win term their cabin will come down to town with colors filing bee f we acif not correct |