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E. W. REID , BRIDGEPORT \ <9///0. 
iAA/ INTERESTING BUSINESS. 
A Concern Near Wheeling, of Whose Magnitude Pew People Have Any Idea. 
[ From Wheeling Daily Intelligencer , April i2 t 1892. ] 
An Intelligencer reporter yesterday had a conversation with Mr. E. W. Reid, the 
Bridgeport nuryseryman, in the course of which several things were learned which were 
not only new, hut interesting to the reporter, and doubtless will be to the greater part of 
the public. . _ . 
Pew people in this vicinity have any idea, of the magnitude of Mr. Reid's business. 
He handles more mail than any other establishment doing business in the Ohio Valley, 
outside of the large publishing companies in Pittsburg and Cincinnati. This is a strik- , 
ing contrast with many firms who have been in business less than ten years. 
Mr. Reid is an ardent advocate of advertising, spending thousands of dollars each 
season, and is now known as one of the largest advertisei’s in his line in theU. S. 
He says this expenditure, with honest dealing and good stock, has made business so 
prosperous. Mr. Reid attends personally to his entire business. 
It is astonishing the tons of mail and the thousands of orders that make their way to 
and from the Bridgeport office. They come from every nook and corner in the world. 
Not the U. S. alone, but from foreign countries. 
One recently from a Catholic clergyman at Bristol, England, who enclosed his per- 
sonal check on a local bank there in payment. 
Mr. Reid says the Wheeling papers are increasingly valuable as advertising 
mediums for his business every year. 
As to the location of a nursei'y here, Mr. Reid says there is not another as good in 
the country. The average nursery depends for shipment on one express company, while 
here there are six, and there is scarcely a town in the country that cannot be reached di- 
rect from Wheeling and Bridgeport, to say nothing of the river and freight lines, with 
their advantages for heavy shipments. 
The climate, also, is just right. Farther north in a colder country, trees do not grow 
as hearty, while farther south, in a milder country, the roots do not grow as deep and 
strong. 
Altogether this business is a striking illustration of what can be done with a good 
location, an understanding of the nursery business, faith in advertising and sensible 
enterprise. There are several other lines of business which need only similar stimulus 
to make them as strikingly successful as 
REID’S FRUITS. 
This is one striking success of his advertising, for one cannot open a paper of 
national reputation, but about the first thing that attracts his attention is 
REID’S FRUITS. 
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J. Horace McFarland Co., Horticultural Printers, Harrisburg, Pa. 
