The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-11-14
Our Manufacturing Interests
Considerations for Prop
az.fV Holders

1t can be demonstrated that Manufacturing
! Establishments, of almost every kind, can be
conducted to greater advantage and profit in
the west than in the Eastern States. In the
early history of the Manufactures ofNew Eng
land, it will be found that they were com
menced usually with small capital, and were
carried on for years at very moderate profits.
Many of them have now become mammoth
! institutions, paying in later years dividends,
| averaging twenty per cent.
The advantages in the west are, cheaper
labor, less expensive living, and in many
kinds of manufacture, cheaper material
Eastern manufacturers are obliged to pay
large freights, commission, Insurance, and
suffer long delays on all goods and wares,
sent to western market. The distance of
, transportation is often attended with consid-
cradle losses. By the census taken by order
of Congress, showing the amount of capital
invested in manufacturing, the number OF
laborers employed, and other statistics rela-
ting thereto, it was made to appear that man
ufacturing had been far more profitable in the
west than the east; that dollar invested for
manufacturing purposes in Chicago, had
earned two dollars to every one dollar earned
by capital in Philadelphia, or Lowell. If Chi
cago was found to possess this advantage,
other cities on the Lake Shore would have
still greater advantages in their favor because
rents and other expenses are less. II.
If, then, it be fact, proven by reliable sta
tistics, that the west does present decided
advantages for the investment of capital in
manufactures and if as is claimed, New
England has grown rich in this department of
industry, why will not those who have CAPT
ital, engage in manufacturing 1t has been
repeatedly shown, that none of our western
villages and cities, can thrive and prosper to
any considerable degree, unless they have
manufacturing establishments, to invite and
sustain a laboring population. No better
point than Kenosha can be found in she west
for the pusposes here indicated. The com
parative cheapness of real estate, the excel
lent facilities for communication with all
parts of the west by railroad, and other con-
siderations, render this a most favorable point
for manufacturing establishments.
There is, perhaps, no branch of manufacture
WHICH promises u more prOHtaDle lHNeSt-
ment, than that of Agricultural Implements.
Notwithstanding there are already many
heavy establishments for this kind Of business
in the west yet these have thus far been una
bic to only partly supply the western demand.
A vast amo unit of agricultural machinery, is |
brought from the east, to meet the |
wants of the west. Perhaps no country in
the world is SO well adapted to the use of ma
chinery in every department. of Agriculture,
rs our western prairie country. Here manual
abor is destined to be superseded by machin-
Try, to far greater extent than has yet been
'ealized. The saving of hand labor on the
great prairies of the west, just being inaug-
lrated by the introduction Of labor-saying
The ultimate progress in this di-
'ection, it is impossible to calculate, but will
doubtless transcend our most sanguine expec-
tations.
1t is apparent, therefore, that tlere will be
In increasing demand for Agricultural imple-
nents in the west for years to come. This |
branch of industry is not an experiment it
las been practically tested with the most |
satisfactory results. Whoever, with prudent
business capacities engage in it must succeed |