Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1875 — Iron and Hardware. [ARTICLE]

Iron and Hardware.

[From Chicago Tribune of March 20.] Iron and hardware in the endless divisions and subdivisions of merchandise included in the terms constitute a great feature of commerce in every manufacturing dr mercantile district, and in Chicago the business of this department has come to reach high figures. A visit to almost any one of the several large houses reveals a general condition of active preparation for a busy season. S. D. Kimbark, successor to the firm of Kimbark Bros. & Co., who is perhaps most widely and generally related to the iron and heavy hardware trade, and who is regarded as a general Western authority in matters and statistics pertaining to that interest, when interviewed by a Tribune representative yesterday, candidly referred to the depression in the outside manufacturing industry as the most conspicuous feature in the records of the year, but reasoned in a way 7 to apply effects on a national rather than local scale. The business of the great house on Michigan avenue of which Mr. Kimbark is the head, dating back a quarter of a century, entering somewhat largely into the history of the commerce of the city, has attained a stability and uniformity by simple magnitude which would naturally prevent- its being affected to any noticeable degree by 7 the ordinary vicissitudes of the markets. It is claimed that to the operations of this house is due the acquisition of considerable of the original territory of trade now constituting the common ground of the commerce of Chicago, including the Salt Lake district, and remoter fields to the West and South which were traversed by its agents, and made accessory to the business of the city, long; before any buffalo, or Indian, or other native of those fertile but unchristian lands had ever been scared by tfie whistle of a locomotive. And when it is remembered that for twenty years the house has constituted a sort of steady center of distribution of iron and hardware supplies for manufacturers, wagon-makers, blacksmiths and merchants throughout the entire dominion of Western commerce, with 3,000 permanent names on the books of the firm, 'and sales aggregating as high as $2,000,000 a year, it is reasonable to suppose that it would require something more than the temporary depression in the manufacturing industry to perceptibly affect the uniform volume and course of business. The establishment itself is one of the mercantile curiosities and solid attractions of the city—a center of very great interest to intelligent visitors generally as well as to a special community of mechanics, manufacturers and dealers—and may be properly designated as a perpetual industrial exposition of iron, steel, nails, carriage and heavy hardware, blacksmiths’ outfits and wagon wood material, each classified department and every broad floor of the lofty building affording a display in enormous bulk more calculated to surprise and interest the imagination of a wagon-maker, iron mechanic or dealer than a world’s fair.

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