The Portland daily press., 1871-12-06
Manufacfurea.

| hope the movement now on foot in Port
land will result in some practical good to the
| city, in the establishment here of some new
industrial enterprises; there was never bet
| ter time for it. ei F.io
In Fall River there are now in course of
| erection new factories, each of them on a
| large scale, so that when completed, the num-
| Der of spindles in that town will be doubled;
and next year, as many more will be commence
ed. All these factories will be run by steam
and coal costs as much laid down in that town.
as in Portland. The establishment of these
new factories is not a matter of experiment:
they are owned by men long engaged in the
cotton manufacture, and thoroughly acuuaint-
ed with all its branches, and sure of success
Fall River has no advantage whatever over
Portland for carrying on the manufacture of
cotton, wooden, on machinery of any kind
Many persons suppose that water power
has great advantage over steam for DRIVING
cotton or wooden mills. This might be so If
the water-power were located at tide water. or
on any navigable stream, so that the stock.
both raw and manufactured, could be water
borne. But so much heat and steam are re-
quired in large factories in the various process
es that no great saving can be made by employ
ing water-power, if the cost of transportation
be high. In the case of factories driven by
steam, the exhaust of the engine is sufficient
for all heating purposes. The cotton manu-
facture, if undertaken here, cannot fail of
success, if it be carried ON by men who under
stand it, Cere -.as 49,.
There is another manufacture, which we al
ready have, but which can be easily INTRODUCED
here, ON large scale of great advantage to the
town, and with no danger in any event, of any
considerable loss; mean the boot and shoe
business in some of its many branches There
is no town in the country that can offer more
advantages for it. We have many upper lofts
of great buildings that can be had at low rents,
or new buildings suitable for this trade, can be
erected at no great cost, and the success of the
movement would be assured from the start. if
undertaken under proper conditions.
know where young men of precisely the
right character can be had, who have energy
and abundant experience-and of undoubted
capacity and integrity, but who have little or
no capital. A beginning, with one or two such
men to conduct the enterprse-and capital
OF ten thousand or twenty thousand dollars.
"o"iu az ouO0 give Stcduy WOrk TO thirty or SIX
ty hands, adding Immediately, about one hun
bred and fifty or three hundred persons to our
population, and distributing three hundred to
six hundred dollars week in wages, large
part of which would go regularly into the tills |
Of our shop keepers. One advantage of this
is, that if in seasonable time. it |
should be found not to pay no serious loss would |
follow, unless bad debts were made.
A large brick building has just now been
erected in Auburn, for four shoe factories: if ia
,70 feet long and sixty feet wide and three sto-
les high. and the builder himself, an old shoe
manufacturer, has put up this building, not for |
his own use, but to induce young men of char
acter and experience to come there, to carry on
his trade, and he will help them with the
ieeoed capital. He does this, only for the pur
'ose ol increasing the business of the town.
IND he is himself actively engaged in tha s.n,o
rade.
Il feel very confident that with very Iitt,o &c
ort the manufacture of furniture could ba os-
ablished here, on permanent basis. begin.
ling on moderate scale and increasing tho
forks as circumstances shall justify. ND.
Alexis, having been invited, will make a
hort visit to Springfield, Mass, Thursday af- /
srnoon. While there he will spend an hour in |
ne pistol works of Smith & Wesson who are |
xecuting heavy contract for the Russian
government.