Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-11-04
On the Wing.


Letter writing is bore when one
is having a good time visiting, and i
any body reads this letter expecting
something, it is hoped they will no
be so lucky as to discover their mis-
take.
! Canton is point of considerable
interest, having extensive agriculture
al manufactures. G. Autumn &
| Co., tho most extensive manufactOr.
ers here, have a capitol Of 81 100000,
and turn out each year about 5000
Buckeye Mowers and Reapers, and
500 Sweepstakes Threshers, paying
out from twenty to thirty thousand
dollars per month to wGrkmen alone.
There is also very extensive branch
of this business carried on by Ault.
man & Co, at Akron. This manu-
factory has brought others, until it
may how be said that these interests
constitute three fourths of Canton's
wealth and business, and they are
rapidly increasing.
The place now contains about ten
thousand Inhabitants, and many
good improvements and fine resi-.
dences are going forward.
G. Aultman & Co. started, some
years since, on very small scale,
working their business up to point
where its influence was perceptible
upon the life and growth Of the
place, when fire rendered them al.
most. powcrless. But the animuS OF
the men was left, and to this may be
attributed tEeir present wealth and
standing. True, they were assisted
after the fire by subscriptions from
the citizens, but these were, as u8Udi,
largest on the paper. The mind,
business and energy of the men have
produced the result.
We have tried to illuminate the al
vantagcs of Cedar Falls, with its fine
water power, railroad facilities, &C.,
to several of these men, but the mas
terial they use is all near at hand
here, and at present rates of transport
tation it is cheaper to ship the ma
chine than the raw material.
Mr.. John Toner, member and
Secretary of the firm of c. Aultman
& Co., tells US that collections are
quite difficult in The west.
But we are glad to learn that the
dollars which have been rolling into
the hands of these manufacturers,
from the poor farmers Of the West,
are not coming so thick and fast as in
the past, Not that we envy Mr..
Aultman his magnificent residence,
which has cost $500, 900, cash, as
much, perhaps. as all the farms in
Cedar Falls and Waterloo townships,
would sell for to>day, saying moth
ing of the manufactures here, which
would easily hold all the grain--per-
haps hay and straw included-raised
in Black Hawk county this year, but
that we see an indication that our
farmers are not going to have ma
chinery reap their crops Gnd farms
also.
They are feeling the stringency of
money matters here as well as we,
andsour advantage consists in the
fact that while machinery is not a
staple article, farm products are, and
if we will be content to work within
our means, we may soon be in shape
TO give these manufacturers healthy
patronage.
Canton has 300 scholars in its pub.
lie schools, which are graded, and
under the superintendence of prin-
cipal who receives 81, 800 salary per
year. The wages of teachers in the
advanced departments are from sixty
to seventy-live dollars per month,
and in the primary, thirty.five to
forty for ladies, and fifty-eight for
gentlemen, per month. The valua-
lion of public school property, is put
down at $4,000, but little more than
in our own place, although they have
many times our wealth. The school
buildings are old and old fashioned
and in everything pertaining to edu'
cational interests, we are considerably
in advance of them. In this we may
may feel just pride. 1t already
gives the vital element of our stand
ing and strength as a State, and ouI
efforts i'm this direction should be
only increased. Z. a. S.
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