Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-29
lLEYA. GAZETTE& { VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.
MANUFACTURERS.

There are many industries which could be:
proGtably pursued at Hamilton, besides those
already established there. !" .
The multiplication Of these industries would
tend to increase our population, to build up
the town, and greatly to enhance the value OF
the surrounding property. ,
We have here Cheese Factory which, has
proved success. 1t is impossible to calculate
the worth Of this simple fact, to the people of
with the sagacity of spirit of enterprise which
turns all such facts to account
We have here Coach Factory doing large
business Its work is equal to that of any
Factory In the country. 1t gives employment
to large number Of hands, and draws to our
village no small amount OF money. Yet its
business might be largely increased, if all Of
our people understood the wisdom of spending
their money at home for that which they can
buy at home. We have Shoe Factory here
which employs some six or seven hands, and
does large amount Of business. We have
TWO Tin Factories here with an extensive trade
in all the surrounding country. And we have
Furniture Manufactory which is earning for
itself first rate reputation. All these are very
we'll, and are doing much towards building up
the town.
But in addition to these we ought to have an
Agricultural Machine shop, which could not
fail, in the midst Of an agricultural country
like this to do splendid business, if properly
managed. And we might have planning mill
and sash and door Factory.
How much money has gone out of this neigh
borhood, within the last two years, for dressed
plank and for sash and doors and mouldings
which might, just as well, have been made
here. And we ought, by all means, to have
here broom Factory. We have all the mate
rial here, or could have, to make broonls.
Where is the sense of sending it away to be
This is larger business than one might sup
pose, at first view. The brooms used in the
county of Loudoun cost some fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars year. Not only could this
demand be supplied by a Factory here, but
large portion of the foreign demand too. A
factory right by the side of the fields were the
broom corn 10 raised could make brooms cheap
er than those at distance from them. As it
is, brooms are made in Baltimore of brush
raised in Ohio, and then sent to Loudoun for
the use Of our housewives. ..
Where is the necessity Of all this roundabout
expensive business. Save the cents, says
of themselves" 1t would require but very lit
tie capital to start q broom factory.
And We might have here an extensive fruit
and vegetable canning establishment. There is
absolutely no limit to this business now IN this
country. There isan establishment Of this kind in
Frederick City, Md, which employs three hun,
dred hands. 1t cans each season the corn raised
uponr 800 acres of land. The proprietor plants
and cultiyates the corn himself and rents the
land from the farmers at twenty dollars per
acre annually. It cans green peas from eighty
acres-tomattoes from forty acres, and other
vegetables in proportion: 1t cans vast amount
of small fruits all of which is spurchased in the
Frederick market. All the cans used In cam
ING are made iu the establishment. So it can
be seen that it is very heavy business. The
proprietor filed an ordera year OF two ago from
California, amounting to twenty thousand dol
lars. Why cannot we have at Hamilton just
such factory? Who can estimate the value OF
such ain establishment to Hamilton and its neigh.
borhood, were it once put into operation here 7
Our fields could furnish the vegetables-our
orchards and gardens the fruit which might
easily employ three or four hundred hands to
prepare for market? This number added to
our population would be little more than the
whole of it at the present time. ii 2s
We might extend this list further; The peo-
pie of Hamilton may rest assured OF one thing,
that, unless they 60 to work and build up tac-
tories adapted TO the locality, the limits OF the
growth of the village are already marked out.
-Loudoun Enterprise. -.',',."-