New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-10-25
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We always so in for Southern manufacturing enter
prise when anything Useful is on the tapis. The
South needs development in manufactures more
than in anything else In the fabrication of more
than one article, Northern and foreign manufacturers
make more money than we do from its production.
In this as in several other respects we of the South
stand very much in our own light. If our people
could be induced to fabrcate as well as produce the
main staples of our sol scale sufficiently large
to supply home wants. the happy results would soon
be apparent on every side.
The publishers of the South are just as much de-
pendent upon Northern manufacturers for supplies Of
printing paper as the people of the South are de-
pendent upon Northern cothiers for supplies of cloth
ing. This is as lnmentabe as it is true 1t ought to
be otherwise.
Speaking of paper mill enterprise. the Mobile
Tribune, of the 2Sd, observes:
About Il year ago. an attempt was made to cstab
lish paper mill in this city but owing to the inca
pacity Of the man engaged in the work and the in
judcious location selected, the object was not attain
ed. This failure Was not occasoned by any lack of
material for the manufacture, or Of demand for the
article, and should not deter Others from taking hold
of business which might be made as profitable as
| any other which could be started
The facilities presented for the manufacture of paper
in the vicinity of Mobile superior to those afforded
in any other part of this Union. There several
streams near the city which afford at all of the
year. an abundance OF pure water, and the material
OF stock necessary to make paper be had here
from so to 100 per cent. lower than at the North
The arguments of our Mobile contemporary apply
to the vicinity of New Orleans with much force. We
believe the manufacture of paper could be made pro-
table here if sliltul and industrious men took hold
of this undertaking. Because one badly managed
enterprise has failed, it does not follow that well
managed effort would not turn out extremely prota-
| BILE. By the way, will some one tell us something
about that paper mill company incorporated by the
Legislature three four years ago to be located in
parish the Lake, about which the press blew SC
many trumpcts at the time? Has it departed this
life, or is it ndulging in onlya very sound nap? Oul
contemporary of the Orleanian was particularly wei
posted, and perhaps will be able to throw some lgh
upon the matter. If so, we trust he will enghtcl
the world Of publicationdom.
The Tribune thus concludes its quite interesting
notice, and if it succeeds in stirring up the olian
to the establishment of paper factory, We think i
will deserve to be presented with a suitable medal.
Our printers and publishers are now entirely de
pendent upon the paper makers Of other States wh'
often take advantage of the dependence and fois
upon them worthless article. II mill should g.
into operation here, publishers could then have made
such qualities and descriptions Of paper as they nigh
require. We could mention many other classes VIII
would thus be directly benefited, but we thinl
enough has been said to show the necessity Of startn
this enterprise. If proper person would engage il
it, we have no doubt that good and reliable contract
could be made for the sale, at good prices, of all tn
paper that could be made and that paper dealers
others would become interested as stockholders