Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-11-04
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CANTON, ONO, Nov.

CANTON, ONO, Nov. I, 20.
Letter writing is bore when on
L is having a good time visiting, and
: 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 considerabl,
interest, having extensive agricultur
al manufactures. G. Autumn
Co., tho most extensive manufactor
ers here, have a capitol Of $1,OO0,0 900
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 wOrkmen alone.
There is also very extensive branch
of this business carried on by Ault.
man i Co., at Akron. This manu-
factory has brought others, until il
may now 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 a very small scale,
working their business up to a point
where its influence was perceptible
upon the life and growth of the
place, when fire rendered them al
most.powerless. But the animus OF
the men was left, and to this may be
attributed tl;eir present wealth and
standing. True, they were assisted
after the fire by subscriptions from
the citizens, but these were, as usual,
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 MAJ
terial they use is all near at hand
here, and at present rates of transpor-
tation it is cheaper to ship the ma
chine than the raw material.
Mr.. John Toner, q 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 i'm
the past, Not that we envy Mr..
Aultman his magnificent residence,
which has cost $780, 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 and farms
also.
They are feeling the stringency Of
money matters here as we'll as we,
and ''our 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 superintendent of prin.
cipal who receives 81 800 salary pei
year. The wages of teachers in the
advanced departments are from sixty
to seventy-live dollars per month
and in the primary, thirty-five t.
forty for ladies, and ffty-eight fol
gentlemen, per month. The valua
lion of public school property, is pu
down at $35, 900, but little more thar
in our own place, although they have
many times our wealth. The schoo
buildings are old and old fashioned
and in everything pertaining to edu
cational interests, we are considerabl!
in advance of them. In this we ma.
may feel just pride. 1t alread.
gives the vital element of our stand
ing and strength as State, and on
efforts i'm this direction should b
only increased. +. a. s.