Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-08-07
From the Burlington Hawk-Eye. -r--
ENCOURAGEMENTO OF MANUFACTO.

From the Burlington Hawk-Eye. r
ENCOURAGEMENT OF MANUFACTO.
j RIES.
We have often spoken of the necessity oil
increasing our productive industry as the
1 only means of building up our town. We
want wooden and cotton mills, paper mills
and great many more workers in wood and
iron. We have the capital and the material
| All we need is the educated skill, experience
business capacity and enterprise Even these
can be had-perhaps in our midst.
Below we print an article cut from the Ly.
ons Mirror. 1t is as applicable and as peril
nent here as at Lyons:
| WOODEN FACToRY.-During the past week
arrangements have been perfected for the es-
tablishing of wooden factory in this place.
Messrs. Overman and Co., have contracted
to erect a three story stone building, 39x55
feet on the ground, to be ready for use by
the first Of January next. A Mr.. Blasburg,
who has had lifelong experience in the bu-
siness, puts in the machinery, which he now
has on hand. The latter gentleman will be
the sole proprietor of the factory, he renting
the building Of Messrs Overman & Co, with
the privilege Of purchasing it at some future
period at cost. Much credit is due to the en-
tcrprising firm that puts up the building, for
the reason that had it not been for the very
liberal inducements offered bv them, we
should not have succeeded in securing this
addition to our manufacturing interests
Cedar Falls Gazette.
The people Of Cedar Falls arc to be con-
graduated. The gentlemen named above are
laying the foundations of enduring and
abundant prosperity for their brisk and pro-
gressive town and for themselves. The man
who builds a..woolen factory NOW in Iowa, or
a flax mill. or sorghum refinery, does more
for the public good and for the future great.
ness of the State than he ever will have the
opportunity of doing, in this line Of things,
again.
The interior of the State is evidently get
ting ahead of the river line in the securing
OF basis for future progress as to business,
population ard wealth. Unless the river
towns s'ahe up and do something, the scep-
ter will have departed from them forever -
1t needs but a glance to see that where the
manufacture of Iowa products is brought to
the very doors Of the producers, there will
be the greatest numbers and prosperity
There is not single wooden mill on the Mis-
sissippi to-day. Davenport is the only town
that has even prospect of one. Cedar Falls,
where the one named above is to be built, is
leo miles west Of Dubuque. There is one
at Homestead, near Grinncll, 100 miles west
Of Davenport. There is one at DcS Moines,
200 miles west Of Lyons. We know of none
nearer the river than those at Bonaparte, Lee
County (burnt on the 9th of JulyD and at
Maauoketa, each about 80 miles in the IN
terror, neither Of them on railroad. The
time will very speedily be gone by for the
river towns which have railroad connection
West to secure this business. Now the wool
clip Of Iowa naturally moves east on our
lines of railroad, for manufacture moves
past us in fact. because there are no wooden
mills at the proper points, where the rail-
roads and the rive" meet Soon our wool in
the counties along the Mississippi VW turn
about and 90 West--to be manufactured i'm |
the Cedar Falls, Des Moines and Homestead
mills, as it already goes to the Amana Socie- !
tvs mill at Homestead. We understand that
Mr.. e. w. Thomas purchased, few weeks |
since, the Washington Hall building, on Pearl
street. of Mr.. Elijah Buell., intending to put
in wooden machinery, and go into the manu-
facturc. We hope 1t may be done speedily. |
We have one or two other vacant brick build
ings about town which cannot possibly be
put to so good a use as this. Our whole
river line, from the landing to Clinton, is
available Nothing would or could make Ly
ons SO prosperous as to have it lined with
wooden and other manufactures. We ought
to have begun this thing before wooden ma
chinery was so taken up by army wants
just as we ought to begin now to get cotton
machinery, everywhere offered for sale in the
East-for our Weste,n Cotton and Flas.-
But wooden machinery can be had. Labor
is coming 70 us. Let us attract it to the
river towns and create home market for
our grain and meat in stead of depending
upon markets so far off that freights-on our
choaked up railroads and canals-eat up all
the profits. Let us induce more Of our Iowa
farmers to produce wool and flax and sor-
ghum. Our river towns will all be second
rate towns in few years unless they ENcoUR-
AGE the manufactures. Capital, machinery
and labor will go by them to make the man.
ufacturing towns of Central Iowa great
They will become mere way stations between
our vast producing and manufacturing inte-
rior and Chicago. The public action must
be turned to this subject or the day Of our
opportunity will pass forever.