The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-07-30
CAN BE DONE CHEAPER WEST
THAN EAaT
NEK HA1Es. CorN.. IN

EDITOR SANDUEKY REGIsTER;-If anV of
our Sandusky capitalists want to see the real,
solid results of manufacturing, both in build
/ ing up cities and personal estate, would be
pleased to have them follow our footsteps
from Lake Erie to this city. In every city
village, or hamlet on the route you will
hear the hum Of machinery and see what
| the industry Of the Yankee mechanic will do,
aided by enterprisiDg capitalists. Take
Rochester, N. Y, as an example. Here is q
city of 200 inhabitants, built up entirely
by manufacturing; and any part Of the work
done there can be done cheaper in Sandusky.
There are four or five immense concerns
making whips; two or three making shoe
lasts; agricultural implements are built; edge
tools; carpenters tools; machine shops,
reaper works, and many pther articles, all OF
| which are sold in the rush. Now, labor is
twenty-five per cent. higher in Rochester
than in Sandusky, because living is higher;
soft coal is worth two dollars per ton more
| than with US; timber is at least one hundred
per cent. higher, while labor is no more
skillful, not as reliable ss can be found in
any town In the west the size of Sandusky,
Why Is it, now, that we cannot do the same
work with all the advantages on our side,
and comPete successfully With eastern con-
cernsg The Only reason I know Of, and the
only real reaspn there is, is the timidity Of
our capitalists. We have money in Sandusky,
in the S=ss1s of men, too, who, ftheY would
examine the whole matter of manufacturing,
would gladly invest. The trouble is they
don't klOw anything about it. They are
afraid OF the competition Of larger and older
establishments in the east They wonld
rather go into lumber or loan at twelve Der
Thokia thar ku1fnouo l.,9t
them. All l want is TO have them look for
themselves, see what has been done in other
places, and what we must do or 90 under
A prominent manufacturer told me in Roch-
ester, and a half dozen have told me the
same thing here, that there was not veal
thy mau in the city but had half his capital
invested 10 manufacturing of some kind, and
every one had more than doubled his money
every Eve years. The manufacturer Of the
'Oaygga Chief reaper at Auburn told me he
bought his lumber at Sandusky aud beyond
there, and sold three-fourths Of his goods IN
Ohio. he couldn't see why all such work
was not done west. He built his shops in
Auburn because be lived there, but believed
he could put up his work in Sandusky cheap.
eT by fifteen per cent. than he could where
he was, Here in New Haven there Ia moth.
ing done but manufacturing. There are no
less than sixty i've wagon shops which en-
ploy from fifty to five hundred men each
These chops procure their supplies almost
entieely in Ohio and sell their goods in the
West s = 81 sEs5@& = EDS
A brush company has Just started here
which paid $50, 900 for patent for little
machine. The rich men Of the city organ
i8ed the company without knowing anything
practically about the business, but even now,
before they have started, the stock is worth
more than par. People know it will be a
success. Money will do anything success
fully, We've got the brains in Sandusky,
we also want the money.
Gan these people bring iron. from Lake
Superior and make it into 4 tboussnd and
one articles and send it right back 10 us
cheaper than we can do it for them9 East
ern manufacturers are not, as some suppose,
working on small margin. They have a
good sJlid slice from every loaf.
a manufacturer of a staple article remark.
ed to me to-day that if he could not net
forty per cent on bis goods he would close
up his shop. Forty per cent. is a good deal, |
We viii b satisfied yitA twenty per cent.
less,
We think in sandusk, that We are good
ways from iron and coal. New Haven peo-
pie bring their iron from Lake Superior, |
about two thousand miles their coal from |
Pennsylvania, and their timber from Ohio |
and Michigan, yet they are all getting rich.
supplying the West with manufactured ar
ticles They have one advantage only |
they haFe money and the good sense to use |
it in manufacturing. D,