Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-10-30
CLARKSYILBEiiS A MANUFACTURING
POINT. - -

POINT. 81 ',,,
~ He0 ~ Grille ,8'.sseg'i ss-asI
We are situated ina magnificent
agricultural region producing the
finest of tobacco, wheat and corn and
vegetable products. Our farmers are
skillful and energetic. They raise
abundant crops Of these articles, and
were the demand for cereals greater,
and prices remunerative, the produce
ton of human food could be aug
lncnted to an amount very many fold
greater than that now grown. The
inducement to raise crops beyopda.
mere subsistence, u That the surplus
may be converted into money, or
bartered for other supplies, either OF
neccssaries or of luxuries. As the
demand for articles of human food Is
80 abundantly supplied, our farmers
have endeayored only to raise In ac-
cordunce with such demand, and
their energies and land are directed,
after the sccuren,ent of these articles
of food, principally to the production
of tobacco because, for that there Is
a greater demand, and they can pro-
duce the hest article that can be
grown. This Is sold In foreign mar
kets, and the skilled labor needed in
converting ii into manufactures of
that article being applied ut other
places, those places derive as great
benefit from our productions of this
crop as do those who grow the article.
Now, If the capital and skilled labor
were brought here where the raw ma
terial is raised, additional advantages
equal in q money view to. another
crop of the same. size might, and
probably would, be derived by the
very section where the crop grew.
If it will pay to transport the raw
material to distant point at heavy
freight, and there manufacture it
with decreased expenses of living
and freight off--a manufacturer here
could certainly make greater profit.
Why do not our men of capital and
skill In such matters take hold of the
matter, and thus secure to their sec
ton this great advantage, and to
themselves. this profit.
Nearly all of our wheat Is made uf
into flour, and finds ready sale any
where, being of character unsur
passed by that of any other quarter
And our millers prosper, and we hops
will continue to prosper aud grow IL
enterprise and wealth. ..t 3.
Our corn is made into whisky, o
digested and assimilated into mea
and sold at good pricesin these forms
But when we say wheat and maiz
are named ~ articles, changed from
their original form, by which none.
Is brought TO the producer, we fear w
have exhausted the list of our pro
auctions SO treated. Our climat
would bring abundantly Of barley
rye, etc, and were there means her
TO convert them into the article
made out Of such crops, our farmer
could and would respond to the dc
mand for such things, and by d
vision Of energy and attention TO dl
fcrcnt crops, could probably augmen
their incomes. '.t .. tl..
But we need not turn to cultivate
products to increase our commerC
and make money for our men Of Ell
tcrprise. We arein section of mag
niflcent iron orc and unsurpasse
timber, and everything which ca
he made of iron or wood could pro
cure the raw material from our yer
midst Years ago fortunes were mad
out of this iron business--and nov
that labor is cheaper than ever, car
ital being applied by the same int
llgencc and energy as formerly WEI
engaged in these matters, there ca
1900, on1 ,ha hrs,,oss ,,orr,oro,.
pn,n,r ~ =, oar,oul,nroI sao,,o,
,,nIona, dn,,ard e. torn,,no in,nI,
r,ont. .,nro wor,J n,rn,sh lara
ana r,n,,nn.o,iro hrs,noss ~ ~,
,ina. .nd lnoatod 90 wa ORC j., ~,
nnn. ,,,n.o,,aI roo,on asa oo,,Ia onn
no,o an:,ns, No. mot 90 ,ooa,od an
r, 90 h',pd.o1s 80 No Orr
,.a,, ,ha sn",i, n,hioh 70 ,ha asr,on
,n.nI ,nr,,on 81 ,his oa,ntrv "a,
".'., po' ' s =, ~.t...,,,sa sa,.o y
,na -" =, - 80. "a nnt,,,,
,no,, s.,asa'',.'ss - =. -, -
-, -, 20 - -. =,