Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-12-03

bui there cannot be competition with the
real estate owners. New land cannot be
brought in and placed on the top of that
already here, and prices of real estate
must go up. Within the last ten years.
or since the establishment Of the rolling
mill and furnaces at Youngstown, the
prices of real estate in the central part of
the town have doubled, and in eligible
building locations in the suburbs prices
have quadrupled. How is it with War
rem? Prices of real estate are less to-day
than they We're ten years ago. And why
is this difference! The population OF
Youngstown has increased rapidly that
of Warren has not. If real estate owLers
here do not subscribe literally, and do all
in their power to secure this prize, they
have a smaller modicum of sense than
they have received credit for, and should
be sent to an insane asylum.
Farmers in the surrounding country are
apt to think they have no interest in the
prosperity of the town, but every think
ing n knows this to be a great mistake.
If these Machine Shops are located here,
every farmer within ten miles of Warren,
who has any article of produce to sell, will
find this "a cash market, and at the high
est prices. His butter, cheese. grain, fruit,
vegetables, wood, any thing which can
supply the wants of a population who
give their whole time TO their trade and
produce nothing outside of that, will find
a ready cash market here. II IS notori-
Gus that for all articles of produce sold
for immediate consumption, Niles, Miner
al Ridge, and Youngstown are better
markets than Warren and why? Be-
cause they have a much larger proportion
of population who raise nothing, and buy
every thing. The farms in this vicinity
will be increased in value for the same
large town are worth more than those
which are not, viz: because a good mar
ket is near at hand for any and every
thing which can be produced on a farm.
There is not a farm within ten or twenty
miles of Warren, which will not be en-
HANGED in value by the increase of the
number of cash paying in this
town. nor a farmer who cannot afford 10
give something to secure that eLd.
Lumber men i'll this county have a
large interest in this matter. Hundreds
of houses will be built here within the
next two years, if those shops are located
here; to build the shops themselves, will
require a million of feet of lumber, and
they will a very lsrge quantity
annually in the manufacture of cars, &c.
There is not a saw mill owner in the coun-
ty, whose business would not be largely
increased, not only for the present year.
but for his lifetime and that of his chill
dren and children's children.
II is not often in the lifetime of any
town that such an opportunity of indefi-
mite increase in population and wealth is
for the acceptance of its citizens.
This Is not an improvement like a rail-
road, or a canal, which might or might
not build up . town, but it is an offer to
within a year $500, O00,00 in
buildings and to plant right here at once
a desirable population of not less than
$500 souls, who would expend here annu-
ally 500, Co., 90 besides the large expen-
diture for material used in the shops. 1t
is difficult to compute the advantages
which would accrue TO the town and the
and the most vivid imagination
hardly will reach the reality.
If the citizens of the town and the
surrounding country for the sake of saw
ing a few thousand dollars now, choose to
throw away the certainty of receiving
millions in the future, the work IS their
own. and they will have no body but
themselves to thank for it. Change is
the universal law, and Warren will not
stand still; it will either go up, or down,
grow large. or beautifully less, and upon
the result of the next few DAYS action,
much will depend. To delay is to lose
the opportunity for ever. The small po-
batoe policy will not do in this ease
Prompt, far seeing liberality will accom-
plish the desired end. and nothing else.