Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-07-16
HnnA Industry.

Home Industry.
On Tuesday evening several of the citizens
came together at the Office of Collector FAs-
sETT, TO consider the question of erecting an
establishment for the manufacture Of Agricul-
tural Implements The meeting was an in
formal one, and all expressed their ideas and |
sentiments freely and without reserve.
All agreed that the prosperity of the place
would be greatly promoted by such an enter
prize, and that real estate owners as well as
ioborinp men would be benefited, and that
neither Rail Road or anything else could SO
advance the interests of the place as a proper
attention to manufactures. The demand for
good Agricultural Implements is almost un-
limited, and where can they be manufactured
more profitably than here. Mayor SEYMOUR
stated that there is now a demand for at least
one thousand plows from this point, and that
there are abundant facilities for turning out
that number even now-and that the buildings
and machinery in the hollow by the Phoenix
Foundry were in good condition, with some
little change, to make the wood work Tor
plows, cultivatnrs, horse-rakes, eto. The iaot
was also ascertained that all the real estate
with 2 60 or 20 feet front on Main ST., lying
between the two alleys in the hollow-could
be obtained for site on which to commence
operations
This very valuable situation containing a
Foundry, the Phoenix Block, Sash Factory
Strecter & Shaylors works, etc, would all or
, nearly all, be contributed as stock, at fair
valuation, to stock company, If such com
pany could be organized. Mr.. Lewis Smith
believed that such an establishment could be
made to succeed, and that the stock would
! pay large dividends lie thought that now
e ers and reapers could be made here as adyant-
= areously as in Akron or Canton or Mansfield,
n and that the facilities for Lake transportation
give us a decided advantage over those places
. No Rail Road monopoly could consume the
I profits, and the heavy machinery of Reapsrs
: ETC., could be set down at Chicago and Other
q great Lake ports at a small cost.
h The fact was also alluded to, that our lum
ber facilities are superior to almost any othel
place, and that the manufacture of all these ar
ticles must eventually tend to the timberet
,e portions of the country,
It 1t is certainly easier and cheaper to manu-
of facture the Clipper mower here than to shiI
ID the lumber to Eastern New York and have /
Or made up, and then pay for shipping the ma
II. chimes back again. But that is exactly what j
X DONE
n. Mr. Smith manifested his faith in the enter
ir prise by offering to subscribe five thousand do
~ lars, and Others gave encouragement in liber'
,h subscriptions. Some 25 or 80 thousand dollar
vc were offered during the evening, and the NEE
LET ing was adjourned till Tuesday eve. next, wit
the understanding that each one consider hin
=. self committee of one to present the subje
lt' to others, and if possible make it success
Let us hope that our citizens will take hold
W the matter in earnest and see that Compan
ID is organized with capital of at least 75,Ot
s. dollars. No point either east or west is mo
Ter favoraby situated than this for such an ente
ILL., prize, and il the New Rail Road is complete
ea (as It is almost sure to be) it will possess a
20 vantages over any other place, if cheap tran
co portation cheap lumber, and cheap Location
''o are an advantage. Citizens of Ashtabula
'"s you appreciate your advantages and will "
nat improve them? Our sister village of Gene
vas has made a noble beginning, Shall we
'ho nothing and let others win the prize Ohio
'hc bound to be the work shop of the great W.
ho in this line. Some halt dozen or more su
my Agricultural works are organized every ye
"c' within her borders, and why should Ashtab
no. la be left 10 done itself away to nothing wh
oiu so much may be done. Let the capitalists
ons o,r ,,idet who oro lnokinr for some profital
o'e investment, take hold of this for IL ciR Rpay.