Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-10
'ur Manufacturing and Mechanical
Interests.


IF increasing our railroad facilities, and
-xtending our commercial enterprises,
md opening up new fields for our river
1avigators, and enlarging our hotel
accommodations, and improving our
~harves and streets, and providing bet
ter roads for Communication with the
interior and with neighburing towns.
All these plans have been advocated
in order to benefit the city and to insure
its continued growth and prosperity. 1t
is well that public attention has been
called in the ways specified to the sub
jects aforementioned, for by so doing
several laudable and profitable enter
prises have been inaugurated and rem
dered the means of remunerating the
projectors and adding to the wealth and
Importance of Evansville. People are
apt to become absorbed in theH private
concerns to the utter neglect Of the pub
lie veal, unless reminded by others of
their duties to society.
There is one large and vital interest
in the city that is not likely to die of
neglect, but which can be greatly
strengthened by home encouragement,
and which, thus strengthened and vivi-
fed with sxuberant health, is capable.
of adding immensely TO the prosperity
Of the community and of every member
thereof We allude to the manufactur-
ing and mechanical interest Encour-
age it, and it will repay an hundred fold
in solid wealth and comfort. Neglect
it, and thu public will suffer from the
bad effects, in common with the numer-
GUS persons directly connected with this
class of business. err
If Evansville depends entirely for her
welfare upon the mercantile and COM
mercial interests, she may succeed in
becoming 6rst-class city, aud she may
not Her future oyershadowiRg i'm
portance will depend very much upon
the degree of rivalry upon the part of
other commercial points, and the open
in up of routes of travel diverting the
trade legitimately belonging to her
into other channels. But if she
leans as we'll upon her manufactur-
ing and mechanical interests as
upon the aforesaid, her emineuce
amongst sister cities is assured, and
her controlling power in this region
of country only question of time and
public spirit and private enterprise.
Few places have better advantages
in the manufacturing and mechanical
way than Evansville. She is located
right in the midst of region rich in
coal, minerals, and timber, where all the
great agricultural staples can easily be
raised, and where there il good reason
to believe that petroleum exists in large
quantities. She is situated SO that her
manufactures and mechanical establish
ments can get water and fuel in abund-
ance TO furnish steam for motive power
There is nothing to prevent this city
from being the great manufacturing
center of the region of country between
Louisville and Cairo, Chicago and
Nashville, if our citizens only realize
the necessity of giving aid and encour-
agement to our manufacturers and me-
chanics.
These we have who are enterprise ng.
energetic, intelligent, and skillful in
their respective branches of labor. We
have both the personnel and the nlaterieI
to enable our city to hold her own with
those that are most favored. As good
work can be turned out here in any
given line as can be found anywhere in
this country. Nearly all kinds of me-
chanical crafts are carried on here, on
a large or small scale. Steamboat work,
agricultural implements, plows, axes,
spokes, hubs, and felloep, wagons and
carriages, mill machinery, tin-ware,
brass and copper work, Building mate
rails, cabinet and carpenter work, chairs
and furniture, marble and stone work,
bricks, boots and shoes, hats and
caps, confectioneries, clothing, sad
dies, brides, and harness, trunks and
valises, stoves and hollow ware and
other cast-iron articles, lumber, slaves
and laths, tight and slack barrels and
tanks, railroad machinery, iron and
steel work, cigars and manufactured
tobacco, wrapping paper, gas fixtures,
dental fittings, medicinal compounds,
wooden fabrics, carpets, the product of
the dyer's skill, millinery and mantua-
makers handiwork, guns and pistols
and their apparatus, mattresses and bed
coverings, iron ratings and other
wrought iron work, printers and book
binders work, soap and candles, beer,
ale, and wine, photographs, stone and
earthern ware, iron safes, roofing, bread,
cakes, and crackers-all these products
of manufacturing and mechanical skill,
and more that we cannot specify, are
turned out now in Evansville, and
the quantities of each can be
vastly increased and new kinds
added to the list from time to time, If
employers and employees will bar mo.
niously cooperate, if banks and moneyed
men will strengthen labor with capital,
and if our citizens will fully appreciate
the Importance of the above mentioned
interest and give it all the aid and en-
couragement in their power.
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