The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-12

MANUFAcToRIES-Ther are many branches
-of manufacturing, for which our city is peculiar
ly well located, and for which she possesses
the best material We see our stores crowded
with wooden ware from the Eastern manu-
factories. They are bulky and expensive
articles to transport, and the additional price
at which they must be sold here to pay cost
and charges, would.be very large profit to
the manufacturers: These articles are all
aaaiss.by. machinery, and require no tuition
and experience in pc yOrkmen. The boards
are put into the machine and they come out
almost finished tubs, pals or whatever you
desire, apparently. Here We have the wood
in every variety, and cheap power.
Corn brooms are an article that pay large
profits to the manufacturer, and employ large
numbers ofhands. There is no soil and climate
in the world that produce such fine broom
corn as our river bottoms and we are told by
those who have tried the experiment that no
crop pays better, where the seed is employed
in fattening stock, and the broom portion IS
sold for brooms. 1t requires little care in
topping at the right season; except that, it is
easier raised than ordinary corn. factory
of brooms might be established here, that
would give profitable employment to 800 men,
women and children; and give home market
for the produce of thousands Of acres Of our
lands.
We import thousands of tons of willow
Ltwigs every year. for basket stuff, and great
many hundreds Of thousand dollars worth of
willow baskets, while we have all our creeks
and river banks lined with willows, altogether
superior to the foreign article, which are looked
upon as nuisances to the owner of the land,
to be killed out; which, if there was a market,
would be his richest crop, without planting or
cultivation. We have seen, within the last
year, large numbers of the most beautiful and
substantial specimens of willow basket work,
made by some German basket makers, out of
the willows they had gathered along the banks
Of the Ohio. They said the'material was SUI
perior to any they had used in France or Ger
many. and, although they were peddling them,
in small way, around the country, for about
one-half the price paid at the stores, they
were very well content with the profits. They
only wanted capital and encouragement to go
largely into the business. Eastern manufac-
turers import the willow from France-taXed
with costs of internal transportation in France,
freight across the Atlantic, and duties-and
make it up, and sell it to our merchants, who
pay other heavy costs of transportation and
insurance to bring it to US, for our use, while
our own neigborhood is over run with the ma
terial, and idle hands among us are wanting
the employment 70 VIOLA 1t up. 1t would
seem that facts so obvious as these would start
some one in these different branches of bust
ness. Neither of them require large capital,
and the last two could be started on few
hundred dollars, and would pay enormous
profits on the amount invested. The demand
for all these articles is unlimited, all over the
country, and we have the facilities of distrib-
uting them in every direction.