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J W. BREDEN,
Wholesale Dealer in Porter, Alle and Vinegar, 4th cross street, between Market and Jefferson, LOUISVILLE.
A. & J. FONDA,
Wholesale Fruit Dealers, Wall street, Louisville.
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CLAGETT & KIMMEL, Wholesale Dealers in Hardtcare, Cutlery, Saddlery, &c. South side Main, near 4th cross streets, A. Y. Clagett, Wm. Kimmell. S LOUISVILLE.
NATH'E HARDY, Hardware, Castings, Iron, Nails, &c. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, Main street, one door east of Bank of Kentucky, LOUISVILLE.
JOHN RUST. IMPORTER OF HARDWIRE & CUTLERY, No. 10, Jacob's row, Pearl street, LOUISVILLE.
STOUT & RICHEY, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Plane Manufacturers,-and
TOOL STORE, 5th cross, between Main and Market streets, LOUISVILLE,
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M. DICKSON, IMPORTER OF Fine double and single barrel GUNS, BELT & POCKET PISTOLS, AND MANUFACTURER OF 1 RIFLES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Pearl, or Sd cross street, Louisville. 3- Repairing donc in the neatest manner.
FLETCHER & REEVES, DEALERS IN Watches, Jewellery, Silver Ware, MILITARY GOODS, PISTOLS, Surveyor's Compasses, Piano Fortes, Music, S.c. South side Main, between 4th and 5th sts., LOUISVILLE.
LEMON & KENDRICK, DEALERS IN Watches, Jewellery, Silver & Plated Ware, FINE CUTLERY & FANCY GOODS, North west corner Main and Wall streets, LOUISVILLE.
Richard E. Smith, DEALER IN Walches, Jewellery & Fancy Goods, South side Mam, near Wall street, LOUISVILLE. Silver, Plated and Britannia Ware, fine Cutlery, Musical Instruments, Lamps, &c.
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DENNY & COLSTON, Brush and Comb Manufacturers,
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AND DEALERS IN English, French & German Fancy Goods, No. 7, Jacob's row, Pearl (or Sd cross) street, Wm. S. Denny, LOUISVILLE.
Joseph H. Colston.
ANDREW LOW && Co.
IMPORTERS OF
English, French & German Fancy Goods,
Andrew Low, Alonzo Lilly, J. C. Baldwin, H. R. Coburn.
North side Main street, LOUISVILLE.
JAMES LOW & CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF COMBS, HATS, And importers of ENGLISH, FRENCH and GERMAN FANCY GOODS, Main street, Louisville.
James Low,
Emory Low. S
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W. BEMENT & CO. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in 1 HATS AND CAPS: ALSO, DEALERS IN Hatters' Furs and Trimmings, Corner of Main and Fifth streets, LOUISVILLE.
P. & C. L. L. LEARY,
Hat and Cap Manufacturers,
Dealers in, and Importers of
HATTERS' FURS AND TRIMMINGS,
Main, between 6th and 7th streets,
LOUISVILLE.
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WM. H. LLOYD & CO.
WHOLESALE
HAT, CAP, AND FUR STORE,
Main street, 4 doors above 4th,
Louisville.
J. G. PRAIGG & CO. Wholesale dealers in HATS, CAPS, FURS AND TRIMMINGS, North side of Main, between 4th and 5th streets, Louisville.
John G. Praigg, Joseph Chamberlin.
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL HATTER, Louisville.
JAMES BRADY,
Importer, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Ready made Clothing, West corner of Wall and Water streets, Louisville.
DANIEL BURRITT & Co. Merchant Tailors, Keep a constant supply of Superior Cloths. Cussimeres, Vestings, &c. Corner of Main and 6th streets, Louisville. .
M. A. & E. Chaffin, DEALERS IN . Stocks, Gloves and Suspenders, AND READY MADE LINEN, At their Furnishing Storc, Main street, between 5th &. 6th, LOUISVILLE
Louisville-Manufacturers in 1837. 889
JOHN MAGNESS, Merchant Tailor and Clothing Store, MAIN STREET, LOUISVILLE, AND . & J. MAGNESS, MERCHANT TAILORS, No. 20, Baltimore st., Baltimore.
VM. H. & G. B. BELL. Saddle, Harness and Trunk Manufacturers, THIRD, OR PEARL STREET, LOUISVILLE.
Martin, Hall & Co. DEALERS IN Saddlery, Plated Ware, Trimmings, &c. Granite row, north side Main st., below 4th st .. LOUISVILLE.
J. Martin, ? Ed Hall, J. Diven. 5
E. & W. H. STOKES,
WHOLESALE SADDLE HARNESS & TRUNK MANUFACTURERS : ALSO, DEALERS IN PLATED WARE & SADDLERS' TRIMMINGS, Main, between 5th and 6th cross sts., Louisville. N. B. Also, Agents for the Louisville Saddie Tree Manufactory [03- See Statistics. ] 36
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JAMES BRIDGFFORD,
North side of Main, between 5th and 6th cross streets,
LOUISVILLE, MANUFACTURER OF Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware : ALSO, ALWAYS ON HAND,
A general assortment of STOVES & GRATES, Of various sizes and patterns. OG- Steam boat and Distillery work done at shortest notice.
THOMAS COLEMAN & Co.
Main street, near corner of 4th street. MANUFACTURERS OF Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Wares- ALSO, STOVES & GRATES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, AND
Steam bout work done at the shortest notice.
LOUISVILLE.
B. P. HALL.
Tin, Copper, Stove, Mantel, Grate AND
SHEET IRON WARE MANUFACTORY, Main street, nearly opposite the Galt house, LOUISVILLE.
Louisville-Manufacturers in 1837. 391
THOMAS MIGRAIN, (Successor to A. Barnet,) 4th cross, between Main and Alarket streets, LOUISVILLE,
MANUFACTURER OF Barnet's superior Cooking Stores, AND Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware.
&> Has always on hand, a good assortment of Stoves and Grates of the most useful patterns.
Taylor, Horning & Kinney, COPPER, TIN, AND SHEET IRON MANUFACTURERS. BRASS AND IRON FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS :
Stoves and Grates of wery description at their establishment. on Main street, (opposite the Louisville hotel,) LOUISVILLE
James A. Taylor, Jacob A. Horning, William Kinney. S
BEATTY & CURRY, Founders, Steam Engine Builders, AND BOILER MANUFACTURERS, JEFFERSON FOUNDRY, Corner of 9th and Water streets, Louisville. [03-See Statistics.]
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BRIDGFORD, RICKETTS & Co.
LOUISVILLE FOUNDRY,
STEAM ENGINE BUILDERS, AND BRASS & IRON FOUNDERS, Water street, between 7th and 8th, LOUISVILLE. [0G> Scc Statistics ]
WTI. & R. GRAINGER.
ENGINE BUILDERS & MACHINISTS,
Bell and Brass Founders, GAS AND WATER WORKS FITTINGS, &c. &c. Water street, between 5th and 6th streets, LOUISVILLE.
SCHNETZ & BALDWIN, WASHINGTON FOUNDRY,
Main, near 9th, and on 9th cross streets,
LOUISVILLE, FOUNDERS, STEAM ENGINE BUILDERS, AND BOILER MAKERS- Also, Manufacturers of Tobacco, Paper and other large SCREW'S.
George Schinetz, ? Jabez Baldwin. S
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LETTER XXI.
Passage from Louisville-Entrance upon the Mississippi-Arrive at St. Louis-Foundation and carly history of that city-Its incorpo- ration-Statistics-Resources-Number of hogs slaughtered in the Mississippi valley-Manufacturing and mercantile operations- Cards of Merchants and Manufacturers.
ST. Louis, (Missouri,) March Sd, 1837.
I left Louisville on the 17th Feb., in the steam boat Pittsburgh, Capt, Blake ; but did not leave New Albany, on the opposite side of the river, below the canal, until the next morning. Our passengers numbered about 40, and the fare to St. Louis was S15. [The in- cidents attending the passage, with a sketch of the river scenery, villages, (and distances between, ) &c., will afford the subject of a subsequent letter. ]
On the morning of the 20th, between three and four o'clock, we entered the Mississippi .* The concussion, wiren the boat struck the current, was precisely similar to that produced from striking a log with a heavy head- way on ; and we strangers supposed it was a log, until informed of the true cause.
On the morning of the 22d, a day which can never be lost sight of, for it becomes so much brighter at each re- volution, especially when contrasted with every other civil epocha, (except the 4th of July,) that the BLIND, in time, will be brought to behold it !- on the morning of this memorable day, our boat arrived alongside the levec
*The aboriginal word was spelled Messachipi, signifying the Fa- ther of Waters.
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of this famous city. Our passage had been rather longer than usual, occasioned by the discharge of freight, as is usual with the first spring boats, but it was a pleasant . one. The company was agreeable ; the boat a good one, (belonged to the Good Intent line;) the captain and the other officers knew their duty, which they carefully and prudently performed : the table was cleanly spread, with an abundance upon it, well served ; the passengers were attended to (the Captain presiding) by quiet, cleanly waiters-and there was no gambling, drinking, or pro- fane language on board, during the whole passage.
The site on which St. Louis stands, was selected, in 1763, by Mr. Laclede, a Frenchman, as suitable for establishing a trading post with the Indians of the Up- per Missouri and Mississippi-and on the 15th of Feb- ruary, 1764, the same gentleman, in company with se- veral persons brought with him from New Orleans, Ste. Genevieve, Fort Chartres, and Cahoika, reached the site, and laid out a town, which they called St. Louis, in honor of the reigning monarch of France, Louis XV., who claimed the whole country, then designated Louisi- ana .- St. Ange, the French commandant, arrived the next year with a body of troops, and assumed the powers of government. St. Louis was thenceforward consider- ed the capital of Louisiana.
"Established on the very outskirts of civilization, in a wilderness country, and exposed to the incursions of the fierce tribe of Indians that surrounded them, the inhabitants of St. Louis confined themselves mostly to agricultural pursuits, each inhabitant being the owner, under concession of the government, of a portion of land adjoining the town. A few of them, however, en-
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gaged in commerce, carrying on a profitable traffic in furs and peltries with the Indians of the Mississippi and Missouri, and supplying the town with articles of mer- chandize drawn from New Orleans and Mackinaw, ' which was then a principal depot of English trade. In the meantime, the town did not extend beyond the origi- nal limits, and there was no accession to its population beyond the natural increase among the inhabitants.
" After the transfer of Louisiana to the United States, a tide of emigration from the eastern states began to pour into the fertile lands west of the Mississippi. The emigrants brought with them a spirit of enterprize in commerce, mechanism and agriculture, which gradually began to develope the great resources of the country, of which St. Louis was the most important point. About this time, also, an important change was effected in the means of inland navigation. Hitherto, all commercial operations, as far as regards the transportation of mer- chandize, had been carried on by means of keel boats and barges, the effect of which was, to render the inter- communication between different points tardy, expensive and unsafe. The inconveniences were obviated by the invention of steam boats, the first of which, the General Pike, made its appearance in the port of St. Louis in the year 1817.
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" From this period, particularly, we may date the pro- gress of the improvement of St. Louis. Its limits and population were gradually increased in extent and num- bers; and, in fact, the character and appearance of both were changed. Agriculture was pursued more exten- sively and energetically-the mineral wealth of the country was brought to light; and the different branches
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of human industry, successfully carried on, gave activity to a commerce which must eventually place St. Louis, with its advantages of location, on an equality, at least, with the fairest cities of the western country.
"St. Louis, the seat of justice of St. Louis county, is situated on the west bank of the Mississippi, about 20 miles below the mouth of the Missouri river, in lat. SSº 39' N., and lon. 89º 46' W. It occupies a plain, which, rising gently and gradually at an angle of about two and a half degrees to a distance of six hundred yards from the river, terminates in a horizontal plane, which extends far to the west, north and south .* The city is built en- tirely over a substratum of lime stone, which runs from the bed of the river along the whole eastern front of the city, and for several miles above and below, back into the interior to as great a distance.
" The rail roads about to be established will open easy and expeditious channels, all terminating at St. Louis, through which it will receive the countless treasures that lie in the basin of the Ozark mountains. The south-western part of the state, is fertile in soil, and rich in almost every mineral. Iron, lead, and copper, are found in beds that are inexhaustible ;- all the produc- tions of our climate are raised with facility, and in abun- dance ;- immense herds of domestic animals are reared without care or trouble to the owner; in addition to all which, it abounds with large forests of the best and rarest building timber. Should the system of internal improvements alluded to, be successfully prosecuted,
*This was formerly a prairie ; but since the fire ceased to sweep over it, it is fenced, and trees have sprung up.
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the whole of this region will soon teem with industry and life: St. Louis will be the market for the product of that industry, and, being abundantly supplied with the ma- terial, she will soon manufacture many of those articles which are now brought from abroad."
In the year 1822, the inhabitants of St. Louis were created a corporation by the Legislature, under the name of the " Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of St. Louis." This corporation is vested with extensive powers for the regulation of the municipal concerns of the city, and under their particular government it has continued to embellish and improve. The revenue of the city now amounts to about $33, 829, annually.
The chartered limits of St. Louis embrace an area of about a mile and a half in length, north and south, by about half a mile in width; but if the suburbs are in- cluded so as to comprehend North St. Louis, Central St. Louis, and South St. Louis, its limits will be extend- ed several miles.
Central St. Louis is desirable for private residences, its situation being elevated and salubrious, commanding a fine prospect of the river both ways. North and South St. Louis offer many advantages to the manufacturing class.
South St. Louis possesses extensive quarries of the best lime and free stone; and, very lately, a quarry of marble has there been discovered, that will bear com- parison with the finest Egyptian marble. The land in the vicinity of St. Louis is fertile in the highest degree, and contains beds of bituminous coal, which are believed to be inexhanstible .. This coal is found within four miles. to the south west of the city.
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The export trade of St. Louis comprises, in part, fur and peltries, lead, iron, hides, beef and pork, whiskey, hemp, tobacco, corn, and almost all the productions of the middle latitudes. An idea may be formed of the .commerce of St. Louis, from the statement, that forty- two steam boats, of different sizes, varying from one hundred and fifty to three hundred tons, have frequently been scen at the wharf at one time; and at no season, excepting the winter, are there less than twenty steam boats within the harbor-the average number is about thirty. These boats ply as regular traders between St. Louis and the different cities on the Ohio and the Mis- sissippi below, and the towns on the same river and the Missouri, and their tributaries, above. They invariably arrive and depart with full freight. St. Louis has this advantage over the cities on the Ohio-that the Missis- sippi and Missouri, excepting in the winter season, when they are bridged over with ice, are always navigable for the largest class of steam boats.
A Company has been formed here, called the Floating Dry Dock Company. They are the patentees of a dock invented by Mr. John Thomas. This dock consists of a certain number of floats, which can be increased or diminished at pleasure, and are connected together later- ally. Each float is about fourteen feet wide and sixty long, and can be sunk in the river to any given depth, and there suspended. When the floats are connected together and sunk, a boat is placed immediately over them ; they are then gradually raised above the surface of the water, until the boat is entirely exposed. She is then repaired without any of the inconveniences attend- ant on the mode of construction of other docks. A
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free circulation of air is obtained, by means of which the workmen can operate with facility and comfort; and the entire hull of the vessel being exposed to the action of the sun and air, is dried without the use of fire.
The healthiness of the situation of St. Louis will not admit of a doubt. There are no causes to render it in- salubrious; and it is a well ascertained fact, that there has been as little mortality from diseases in St. Louis as in any other place of the same population in the United States.
In the year 1831, the population of this city, including the suburbs, was estimated at 6,000. According to a census lately taken, it is ascertained that the population, within the chartered limits only, is 9, 414. The suburbs, 3,000 more-giving an aggregate of 12,414, the total number of inhabitants ten months ago. The impression now is, that the population amounts to 15,000.
St. Louis contains S Churches, 2 Market houses, a Court house, an Hospital, an Orphan Asylum, 5 Hotels, 4 brass and iron Foundries, 4 Printing Offices, and a large number of saw and grist Mills. It also contains a number of Primary Schools, a Nunnery, and an Aca- demy for the education of females. In fine, viewing St. Louis in the light which it deserves, there is nothing risked in the assertion, that it is destined to attain a sta- tion eminent and unrivalled.
For much of the foregoing matter, I am indebted to a Directory of this city : and to the politeness of indivi- duals, (except what came within my own observation.) for what follows :
The Courthouse is a very handsome brick building, on the most elevated ground in the city, with a cupola, from which the most extensive, (and almost the only)
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view can be had, of the river and surrounding country. The spacious lot in which it is located, is surrounded with iron railings. The City Hall surmounts one of the Market houses. A Theatre is in progress of building, and an hotel, on a large scale-a good one is much want- ed-it is to be called the " St. Louis House," contracted to cost $120,000 .* The St. Louis University is in the western suburbs of the city ; it has nine professors, mem- bers of the college of Jesuits, with ample powers. A Medical department has been recently attached to it.
The Catholic Cathedral, is a splendid edifice, and for beauty and symmetry of architecture, will compare with any other in the United States. It has a peal of six bells ; the three largest were cast in Normandy, and weigh severally 2600, 1900, and 1500 pounds.
The city is supplied with water through the medium of water works. A reservoir is constructed on one of the large artificial mounds, in the northern suburbs of the city, into which water is forced by steam power, from the Mississippi, and from which it is conveyed through iron pipes to such points as required. The engine, however, is not of sufficient power, and will soon give place to one of more efficiency.
The antiquities of St. Louis are, besides three or four mounds, an old stone castle, on the bank of the river, surrounded by a stone wall, the enclosure containing probably the eighth of an acre ; and the primitive dwel- lings, of some of the first settlers, among whom were Messieurs Auguste and Pierre Chouteau-the latter of whom yet lives, but exceeding his term of " four score years."
*Board at hotels is from 2 to $2.50 per day-and the farther west. a person travels the more indifferent I have found them.
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Manufacturing, by labor-saving machinery, has not been introduced yet to a great extent, although some progress has been made : but the high price of fuel and labor operate as a material drawback. Notwithstand- ing the " coal mines are so convenient," the price is fre- quently from 25 to SS cents a bushel, delivered-and wood ranges the year round from 6 to $8 per cord .- Mechanics get their 2 to SS per day, and common la- borers $1.50-all in hard money; for, except among mer- cantile men, few bank notes circulate. All building ma- terials are high : the boards and shingles are brought from the western part of New York, and supply, not only the demand here, but great quantities are sent to Galena .- Commmon cullings sell here at SS per 100 feet ; bricks at $10 to 11 per 1000, and $4.50 for laying them .- Rents are extremely high-stores and warehouses are in all stages of progress : those in desirable situations, are under rent at present from $1500 to $3000 a year .-- There exists no ordinance at present, although the legis- lature has granted the authority to pass one, prohibiting the erection within the city of frame buildings ; and a small one was shewn me which cost the owner only $1000 to erect, and he receives an annual rent of $1200 for it !
Messrs. Savage & Austin sold Real Estate last year to the amount of $650,000-of Merchandize, generally, $300,000 ; and paid a tax, to the state and county, of $8,000. Their highest prices obtained for lots were for those sold on Front street, next the river, which brought $500 per foot -- those on Main street, next parallel, $400 : out of the city limits 5 to $60 per foot.
A charter has been granted by the legislature, autho- rising the establishment of the Bank of Missouri, with
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a capital of $5,000,000, which is to go into operation next May or June. This is the first bank ever esta- blished in the state.
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The markets are scantily supplied, and of course the articles of subsistence are high. Flour, per bbl. $10; Corn Meal, bush. S1 ; Beef, Ib. 8 cts .; Pork, do .; Sau- sages, 10 a 12 ; Turkies, a piece, $2 a 2.50 ; Geese, 1.25 ; Fowls, pair, 1.50 ; Butter, firkin, lb. 50 cts .; Po- tatoes, bush. 75-&c. &c.
The number of Hogs, slaughtered in Missouri, the last season, was about 100,000, averaging 200 lbs. each, and cost from $3.50 to 5 per 100 lbs. The market price, up the Missouri river, was SS.50. In Illinois, about the same number was slaughtered, and the average in weight was about the same, but cost somewhat higher ; great quantities are brought down the Illinois river, in bulk, the animal, after being cleansed, is simply split into two parts, from the snout to the tail, and in that form cured. Several cords of the article are now ranked up on the levee, in the form that pigs of lead are piled on the riv- er's banks. About 80, 000 were slaughtered in Indiana, averaging 180 lbs. each, and cost from $4.25 to 6 per 100 lbs. These several sums, added to the 180,000 of Cincinnati *- to Pittsburgh 20,000-and to Columbus, Portsmouth, Wheeling, and two or three other places- where it is known that packers were engaged the whole season in putting up-and the number will be found to amount to at least 500,000 hogs, the nett weight of which is one hundred millions of pounds ! And this enormous amount is all for market !
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At the Mississippi Foundry of Messrs. Gaty & Coonce, there were manufactured last year between 400 and 500 tons of pig metal into various kinds of castings ; among which were S engines for ferry boats, and 19 for land purposes, (2 of the latter with double cylinders, ) amount- ing to 22 engines-and from 18 to 20 set of Lead Fur- nace Irons, for the Galena and Dubuque mines. They also manufactured in the same time 200 tons of wrought iron into boilers, mill irons, &c. ; consumed about 18,000 bushels charcoal, same amount of bituminous, and 5000 bushels anthracite coal ; gave employment to from 80 to 100 hands ; and their amount of sales, in the time specifi- ed, was $145,000.
Messrs. Bemist, Kingsland & Lightner, proprietors of the St. Louis Foundry, are just preparing to commence operations. Their works embrace two very large brick buildings, located in the northern, and a very handsome part of the city.
The number of licenses issued to merchants and deal- ers in foreign articles, except to the dealers in wines and liquors alone, the last six months, was 164. They are classed according to the capital invested. The largest amount supposes $50,000, (which I have trebled, to em- brace the year,) and the least 4,000,-(which I have doubled)-the maximum and minimum cost of a license, which is issued and collected semi-annually, is from $50 down to SS.75. By graduating the licenses, first ascer- taining the number of each specific one, as that deterin. ined the amount of capital there invested, (if the mer- chant gave a correct statement to the collector, ) and the
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amount of sales of dry goods, wares, &c. except as above excepted, would be about · · $5,000,000 Messrs. Savage & Austin, Auctioneers, 950,000
The amount of business, per annum, of the American Fur Company, is from S225,000 to 250,000-say (medium,) 240,000
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