Jamison W. Rice and others. October 1, 1890. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed
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Th Gliclt Reporter Friday J n M 155 TRADE AT HOME SUGGESTIONS CoOperation on the Part of All Citizens Necessary if Browning is to take Full Advantage of Its Potential Possibilities Oil Development Promises Opportunities to Build a Real City In This Central Location MERCHANDISING AND PUBLIC SERVICES It is estimated that a large percentage of the merchandising and services business in the Browning trade area at the present time goes to outside trade centers possibly as much as fifty per cent of the total business That this practice is economically unsound both for the outside buyers and from the standpoint of those who have invested their capital in Browning pay local taxes to support the various governmental activities donate to community projects and extend a helping hand in cases of personal emergency support its churches fraternal and civic organizations and are mutually interested in advancing all manner of community betterment is easily apparent after even a superficial ana lysis of the problem From the buyers standpoint from a purely financial angle it is readily ap parent that the practice of going to distant points for trading purposes is a losing venture As a matter of simple arithmetic it is