Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-30
BIANUFACTJ RING AN BE DONE
CHEAPER WEST THAN EAST.

We invite the attention of our Della
ware readers who are intereste d-as we
hope all are-in enlarging the manu-
featuring business this city, ,tot the fow-
lowing communication which appears
in the Ssndusky Register. It is direct
lyin point, and what's saidof fSandusly
is equally true Of Delaware.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 16.
EDITOR SANDUsKY REGISTER :-Ifany
of our Sandusky capitalists want to see
the real, solid results of manufacturing
both In building up cities and personal
estate, would be pleased to have them
follow our footsteps from Lake Erie 10
TINS city. In every city, village, or.
hamlet on the route, you viii hear the
mum of machinery and see what the in
dustrY of the Yankee Mechanic will do
aided by enterprising capitalists. Take
Rochester New York, as az example.
Here is a city of 70, 600 HHlIabiiants,
built up entirely by an0facturing,
and any part of the work done there
can be done cheaper iB Sandusky.-
There are four or fivedE2 mense concerns
making whips; tive or three making
shoe lasts; agpicUltuTal Implements are
built; edge toolss carpenters tools; ma
chine shops, reaper works, and a great
many other articles, all of which aresOld
IN the rush. Now, labor is twenty-five
per cent. higher In Rochester than IN
Sandusky, because living is higher f:
soft coal rs worth two dollars PER ton
more than witch us; timber is at least.
one hundred per cent higher, while la
Dor is no URCre skiliful, not as reliable
as can be found in any town in the west
the size of Sandusky. Why Is IL, now,
that we cannot dOthe3 sahZf9 work with
all the advantages on our side, and
compete successfully with eastern con-
Germs The only reasons / know of,
and the only real E5ason there is, is the
tituiajIy of our capital. Wehave mon
| tsy in Sandusi5E in the hands of men,
| 500, who, IF 'eh3y would examine the
whole matter Of man ufactUring, would
gladly invest. The trouble is they dOn'i
know aRything about it. They are
4 afraid OF Nhe competition of larger anu
1 Older veSSa blisnments in the east. They
4 WOnla rather 20 into thelumber or loan
/ at twelve per cent. That's their busi-
/ ness. don't blame them. All I want
4 is to have them look for themselves,
4 see what has been done in other places,
i what we must do or go under. A prom.
/ inent manufactures told me in ROches-
Il ter, and half a dozen have told me the
same thing here, that there was not
wealthy man in the city but had half
( bis capital invested in manufacturing
Of some kind, and every onehad more
1 than doubled his money every five
1 years. The manufacturer Of the "Cay-
] uga Chief" reaper at Auburn told mt
ne bought his lumber at SEnduskY and
4 beyond there. and sold three-fourths Of
J his goods in Ohio. He couldn't see why
4 all such work was not done west. He
/ built bis shops In Auburn because he
i lived there, but he believed he could
1 put up his work in SaudUsky cheaper by
/ fifteen per cent than he could where he
was. Here in New Haven there wan
I nothing done but mAnufacturiDg.-
/ There are no less than sixty-fve wagon
shops which employ from fifty TO five
hundred men each. These shops pro-
cure their supplies almost entirely in
Ohio, and sell their goods in the West.
A bFusl1 company has lust started
| here wAich paid $4,000 for patent foI
a little machine. The rich men of the
city organized 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 il will be a sue
cess. Money will do anything sHecees-
fully. We've gothic brains n-Sandus-
ky, we also want money.
Can thesepeOple bring iron from Lake
| Superior and make it into a thousand
and one articles and send it right back
| 20 us cheaper than we can do It for then2
! Eastern manufacturers are not, as some
/ suppose, working on small margin
| They have good solid slice from every
/ loaf.
A manufacturer OF staple article re-
| marked to nae to-day that if he could
/ not net forty per cent. on his goods he
would close up his shop. Forty per
cent is a good deal. We viii be satis-
| fed with twenty per cent. less.
| We think III Sandusky that we are q
good ways from iron and coal. New
| Haven people briag their iron from
! Lake Superior, about two thousand
| miles; their coal from Pennsylvania,
ard their timber from Ohio and Michi-
! gan, Vet they are all getting rich sup
plying he West with manufactured ar
ticits. They have one advantage only
they have money and the COOL eusA TO
use it in manufacturing.