Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-13
n ElRoN-cLAD.
It Becomes a Manufacturing Establishment
What did It.

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the progress of manufacturing enter
prises in this city is infinitely more rapid
than is generally supposed. d. A. But
terield, Esq, OF ElgiD, Illinois, tells US
that he was induced to make Memphis
the scene of his manufacturing opera
tons, simply because he believed that
this city and county were more thorough
~ imbued with the progressive railroad
building spirit of the age than any in the
South. That he may succeed in his
schemes of money-making, it is an indis-
penssble prerequisite that Memphis have
access to all portions of the Gulf States.
He will give employment to five or six
hundred unskilled laborers and consume
products of farms and gardens in the vi
cinity that are now worthless and wasted.
His manufactures, like the products Of
Orders cotton Inter and mote ma
chine. are just 50 much added to the alb
solute wealth of h country. Shueks
c'husks'O from every corn crib will be
consumed in vast quantities and con-
yerted into mats and mattresses. The
establishment will first be engaged MAIN
ly in manufacturing these articles and
will produce $1,000 worth daily.
THE GREATER SCHEME.
Meanwhile, gardeners and farmers will
begin to shape their operations with refer
ence to the more important manufactures
VI AAO 1O0tAAC L dChLuk OOLlDdLH.
which begins its operations with the pur-
pose of furnishing fruits for common use
cheaper all the year round and as fresh as
in summer time. One million cans of
fruit will be put up the first year in Is. ZOO
cases, the cans costing $50, 00e These tin
cans will be made here at a cost of $50. 600,
and the cases $500, labels 5000. to which
add insurance n the cost of conducting
the establishment, aside from that of i've
hundred women and children and men
employed, will not be less than SI75.OOo.
In the mat and mattrass mandatory
alone w hundred and ffty laborers will
be employed, and one hundred dozen mats
Will be made each day, and from five to
twelve dozen mattresses.
HOW II COUNTY IS AFFECTED.
This establishment, which will consume
all the vegetables not disposed of in the
local market, illustrates the value of q
perfected railway system, and how it
operates as ad~vantageously to farmers as
to merchants. Every acre of arabic land
near Memphis can be made to prOduce
from 300 to 800 bushels of tomatoes. and
two crops each year., and these tomatoes
will be bought by this company at from
$40 to 500. In New Jersey $50 bushels
per acre Is an average crop, where toma-
toes are sold at % cents per bushel, Two
crops OF peas, beans and other garden
vegetables may be produced here, and all
canned n sent abroad. The quantity
OF canned fruit now exported from New
Orleans each year is greater than in
any ten years before the war.
The great mass of the population
OF New York city onsume no other
fruit than that provided by the manufac-
tories at Portland, Maine, Baltimore, and
other places of less note. Memphis
and the country about the city is in6n-
lteIy TO be preferred to Northern sites for
such establishments. The fruit and veg
etable seasons are earlier and of twice the
duration, and tho corr richer in saeeha-
rine and nutritious substances: and so
with all vegetables grown in this latitude
and in this exuberant soil. The fodder
from this sugar corn is sold as hay at
eighteen dollars per ton, and pays the
whole cost of its cultivation, while the
corn OF each acre (the two crops) will
command at least seventy-tive dollars.
HI R o CLAD.
For the purpose of conducting the man
utacturing processes above defined, the
Messrs. Buttertield have leased the brick
building in Pinch known as the "IrOn
for seven years, for the mat and mat
trass mandatory. They will consume
the products OF at least six hundred acres
devoted to tomatoes, corn, garden vegeta-
bles of all kinds, blackberries, fruits,
meats, soups, mock turtle and such arti-
cles as are preserved in winter months
when fruits are not produced.
RAILWAYS.
The railway system of Memphis draws
these manufacturers, and, imper-
feet as it is, gives constantly augmented
value to lands everywhere in Shelby
IL is the Selma road, con-
Meeting Kansas City, through Mem
phis, with the gulf and Attain
tic ports that renders Memphis
most attractive to Northern farmers and
manufacturers, and will soon make every
acre of land in Shelby county worth from
800 to $500. The fr~uit-canning process
will be conducted probably in North
Memphis or in Chelsea, near the terminus
Of the Raleigh Welsh railway, which will
Don be lined on either side with continu-
ous gardens from this city to Bartlett.