Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-02-03
[For the vindicator.l
MIR. EDITOR.

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ing manufacturing enterprises In our City,
as means Of promoting its material pros
perity
1t seems that our capitalists prefer to use
their means in shaving their needy neigh
bors' paper, caring very little what becomes
of the community, SO thy ill their own
pockets, now it seems to me, that l would
much prefer to make I2 per cent on my
money in some legitimate business, than to
make the same amount out of the necessities
of my neighbor. Why not then direct your
means and energies in some legitimate bust
ness that will pay you your l2 per cent,
and, at the same time, promote the interest
of tho community in which you live?
Our City, being located in the finest Iron
region in the country, possesses many ad
vantages for the Manufacture of all kinds of
Iron and Machine work, and Agricultural
Implements. This County has bought
$780, 900 worth of Agricultural Implements
from the North, euery gear since the AGAR.
So you will see that we not ouly have the
facilities Tor Manufactures, but we have the
market at our doors for their sale. There
fore, let our men of means and business en-
ergy invest their money in manufactures and
offer to others, seeking investments, such
inducements that will direct their attention
to our City. We must, in order to get others
interested in our location, show, by our acts,
chat we are willing to put our means and
energies in such enterprises as we would
have them engage in. To show you the
Importance which citizens Of other localities,
possessing no more advanta ges than we do,
place upon the establishment of Manufactu-
ring establishments in their towns.
quote several paragraphs from Penn
sylvania paper of recent date.
'sThere is project on foot to erect two
furaaces and rolling mill, either at Carlisle
or Mount Holly. The gentlemen agitating
the matter propose to raise joint stock
company, with capital of half a million of
dollars, and to locate the works at the place
which offers the great EST inducements. A
strong rivalry exists in the two places on
the subject"
Our City will, when the G. & 0. R. r.
is completed possess as many advantages for
the manufacture Of Iron, as either Carlisle
or Mount Holly.
sAnother establishment for the manufac-
ture Of agricultural implements is being talk
ed of in Harrisburg A gentlemen has
agreed to donate sufficient land for the pur
pose"
Harrisburg possesses no advantage for the
manufacture of Agricultural Implements
that our City does not.
Now where is the monied man of our
town that will take stock in such an estab-
lishment, much less make donation to it,
But the following, from correspondent to
the same paper quoted above. in relating
what the people Of Columbia Pennsylvania.
are doing to induce men Of means, and man
ufacturiug skill and enterprise, to locate in
their town, is so applicable to us that quote
his own words:
cit is healthy sign when the people Of
an agricultural community, possessing ad-
vantages fer the introduction OF manufac-
lures, bestir themselves to induce the estab-
lishment Of such enterprises in their midst.
The people Of Columbia, Penn, are active
ly at work in this way, and as we are al
ways anxious to advance the interests of the
State and city we endeavor to represent in
yonr columns, we give place to the induce
ments offered by them. There are very
many manufacturers in New England and
New York who could, with profit to them
selves, re locate under the inducements Of
fered by the people of Columbia.
The first consideration ia locating manu-
features is cheap transportation for the IA W
material and good market near at hand for
the manufactured product These Colum-
bia possesses in an eminent degree. Situa-
ted npon the Susquehanna River, with good
wharfage and never failing supply of raft
ed lumber from the timber counties of the
interior; in the midst of q region Astounding
in the best aud most varied deposits of iron
ore and limestone; connected with the
Schuylkill coal fields by the Reading & Col
umbia Railroad, with the bituminous coal
fields of Cumberland by the Northern Cen
trail Railroad, via, Baltimore, with Phila-
delpbia by the Pennsylvania Central, as also
with the West by same route, Columbia Of
fers superior advantages as the site Of great
manufacturing enterprises. 1t is, moreover,
in the midst af a most productive agricultu-
raj region, where the necessaries Of life are
abundant and cheap The citizens of Col
umbia have held series of meetings lately,
at the last Of which the proceedings showed
that the following manufactures would cue
coed in that locality, viz: Gar and machine
works, nail and plate mills, hardware and
small gray castings, stove and hollow-ware
foundries. furniture and agricultural impl2-
ments, glassware, tanneries. morocco, shoes,
cotton, wooden and paper mills, &c. The
iron interest is especially invited. Land on
the line Of the Reading and Columbia Rail-
road is offered at $500 per acre, and good
wharf property, with also rail- cad frontage,
at $40 per lineal foot Resolutions recon-
mending the exemption from local taxation
of enterprises SO established were passed,
with the understanding that the necessary
action would be promptly taken by the town
council. This exemption is to include ostabe
lishments located within three years from
April, 1871. and to continue for ten years
The councils are further directed to obtain
power to borrow money for the purchase of
lands to be donated for tie erection thereon
of manufacturing establishments, and an
election of the citizens is to be called for the
approval of such act. Of the Thousands of
your readers interested in manufacturing,
there must be some who would take advan-
tage Of such offers to better their condition,
and to such we would recommend CORES
pondence with the chairman Of the comait.
tee on correspondence, J. W. Yocun, Esq,
Columbia, Pa"
Now I undertake to say that Columbia
Pa. does not possess any advantage for the
manufacture of Iron, Or its manufacture,
except the River Navigation, (Which is
closed half the Year, that we will not have
when the @. & g. r. r. is completed, which
we are told by Mr.. Huntington will be in