[PDF] Dry Goods Reporter And Midwest Merchant Economist eBook

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230178554

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...per bead. If tbe Immigrants of 1849, under the agricultural prosperity of the past year, come fully up to the average connmption, and the chances ore that they go beyond it. because of their previous short supply; and In the case of tbe Germans--they exchange coarse linens for Cottons--then the immigration of the last four years will add 27,000.000 yards to the demand for Cotton Goods this year. The experience of every housekeeper In his own family is. that his "green" domestic remits her wages to Ireland for the first year; and the British official figures chow that over .UOu.O(K are so remitted; In tbe second and subsequent years she applies her earnings to dress, to which she was before a stranger. Tho average so applied is probably $50 per annum, which would give an additional demand this year, on the immigration of 1861, of f 1,488,000. falling more upon Imported than Domestic Goods. California, In the large quantities of goods lent thither, affords an evidence of what largo supplies re demanded by 200.000 successful, emigrants. Tho great general prosperity of the old Slates has imparted success to European emigrant industry here, and this forms powerful element in improving markets. The means of the whole people, particularly of the agricultural, are much larger than ever before, and at the Bamo time the demand abroad for goods, accompanied by vhorlness of raw materials, throws an increasing proportion of the upply upon Domestic Goods here, and tends to carry Imported fabrics to the highest figure. A yet there Is no very numerous attendance of buyers. Tbe city trade and those of neighboring cities are completing assortments for the trade, which will soon open. Cloths are In demand, and are well...