Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-15

F MANuFACTuRING.-Weh have no establishment
| among us that contributes more to the benefit
and thrift oftheplace than the one that has been
puilt up by Il. A. Hitchcock on Centre-st 1t
is hive-not very small one either-of in
dustry, giving employment to a large number
OF hands, at remunerative prices, and distribu-
ting the avails of that industry, over the coun-
ty from which the lumber is drawn, and supply
Ing innumerable rills that find the pocket of our
merchants and other manufacturers of the use
full articles oflife. Its benign and bedewing
Influences felt in all the ramifications of socie-
ty. While E. A. Hitchcock is driving the shaft
and barrel business, when the demand warrants,
to the full capacity of his extensive premises,
every department, characterized by order and
thoroughness, and the work attesting the me-
chanism and skill of his workman, Messrs,
Z. r. Williams s. Company-the company
embracing T. 8. Edwards and E. A. Hitchcock
are pushing with commendable energy, the
manufacture of bent seats for buggies, a late in
vontion, and a really mcritOrious and popular ar
ticle. A five-eights board of steamed green
elm, is bent to form in one piece, the back and
sides, with gracefully turned corners, of bug
gy seat. The invention reaches the ends of
lghtness, tastefulness, strength and economy
So popular is the article, that it has superseded
almost entirely the Did fashioned mortised, an
gular and iron braced article The demand is
such "a to require the utmost capacity and en-
ergy of the establishment to meet it. The COM
pany are all practical men, with good business
notions, energetic. liberal and manly, and in
every respect worthy of the reward that this
business is calculated to bring them. Such es
adjustments can hardly be over-rated in sup
plying the sinews of growth and importance 10
a village like ours, and our citizens. merchants
and mechanics as well as land holders, will con-
suit their individual as well as common well
fare in affording every encouragement to the
introduction of manufacturing establishments
among us. Indeed, what we most need is the
appropriation of some of the capital held by
by our citizens, in the formation and fostering
of stock companies, to the effect that mechan-
les and ndmechanica industry may be increased,
and their influence seen in the growth and pro-
gress of the place. Other places about us,
Painesvile, perhaps. the nearest. are inducing
the settlement OF mechanics, and lending its
capital in the formation ofthese companies, and
when stranger stops to- take birds eye view
of that live and beautiful town, the citizens
point with pride to the elements of solid pros
perity around them, the extension OF their Dor.
ders by additional village pats, and the erection
OF buildings to meet the demand of an increas-
Ing population. When these views shall be-
come more common among us, our onward
march will become more apparent and gratify-
ing. While we arc content to wrap our talent
in napkin and cocoon-like, roll ourselves up
in our own shell, allowing every man to GO and
come, and take care of himself as best he can,
without recognition or sympathy, we may soon
be able to raise sort of Chinese wall around
the town. and announce to the outside world
it is finished