Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1869 — Business. [ARTICLE]

Business.

From present indications, all kinds of bnsinees In Jotpor county will rcccivi a new impetus in tlse coming spring. Last year produced good crops, which a favorable fall enabled our farmers tio secure. An unusually open winter has made even a moderate supply of feed ample for the keeping of Btoek. All farm produce brings good prices and finds a ready market at the doors of the producers. Pork sells for double the prices of former years; com comma nils thirty and thirty-five cents a bushel in the crib; cattle sell at war figures—forty and fifty dollars being asked for a milch cow; butter sells readily for twenty and twenty-five cents a pound, and everything else is proportionate.— Then the real estate market is uncommonly active. Immigration is constant, and the new-comers are, generally speaking, well-to-do farmers from the Eastern States, attracted thither by the wonderful fertility, beauty and cheapness of our lands. They bring with them hab : its of industry, economy and improvement, together with money to back their enterprise. TIIVJ come here to stay, and willingly pay reasonable prices lor- good locations. 11l view of these favorable ap- i pearauces, wo hear of at least three new stores about to be opened in Rcftsselaer. Wu wish success to all legitimate enterprises, and can not prove our good will better than* do recommend those about to etH’ bark-in business in this place, to study the history and practice the lessons to be learned from the career of the well-known firm of j Stackuousu & B«o., dealers in ' hardware, tinw are, cubinetware, ! agricultural implements, seeds, etc. Coming here strangers in 1857, | they Commenced with a smallTapj ital, occupying a single small room, | and estimated their sales the first year at a few' hundred dollars, but succedcd in making warm personal friends among the people, and laid the foundation for the positions to i which its members have attained in society and business. Persevering industry, close attention to business and strict honesty in all their transactions, have made for them a reputation worthy the aim and emulation of all. From a small beginning, their business has steadily and rapidly increased until this winter they found it necessary to extend the size of their store, and now they occupy the largest trading house in Jasper county. Their tftorc is thirty by one hundred feet in size, two stories high and is the fifth door east from the north-east corner of Washington and Front streets, fronting Washington street. This large building will b* filled in the spring, top and bottom, with a complete and new stock of hardware, tinware, cabinet furniture, etc., while the latest- improved -farm machinery will be on exhibiton in a separate department. - Wc have not the space this week for more extended notice of this large establishment, which is at once the prijle of its owners and an honor to the place, but must close for the present with an invitation for everybody toTall and see how cheaply they sell go"od goods. Also, notice that Stackhouse & Bno., advertise.