Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-09
NIanufactures--No. 4.

The question OF engaging Ill HldHu
factures is one which the people of
Rutland have vital interest just now.
We again take occasion to call attention
to movements that are on foot in other
sections.
The City Council of Biddeford, Me-,
has voted to exempt new manufacturing
establishments from taxation for ten
years, when the amount invested eX-
ceeds $1,000. This looks like encOur-
agement to manufactures. A similar
move is the first that Rutland should
make. Call town meeting, exempt
new manufacturing establishments from
taxation and then8 offer section OF
land to those who would build manufac
turing establishments thereon, and not
leave individual desiring to be santered
by land owners at eXhorbitant prices.
Mr.. John r.. Reynolds once made a pro-
position of this character to the people.
His plan was eminently a practical and
wise measure. For it has often been
said by those who have been disposed
to engage in manufactures, now we can
not afford to start in Rutland because
the land on which to place building
will cost as much as the building itself,
we must 90 where the land will not cost
all our capital to start with. Several
persons to our knowledge have been de
TERED from commencing operations here
for this reason.
The six manufacturing companies IN
Pittsfeld Mass, employ 1000 hands
with 81, 124, 900 capital and use $50, 900
lbs. of wool, yearly. A large amount
of the wool used in these manufactures
is produced in Vermont, and should be
wrought into fabrics in Vermont A
sufficient quantity of wool is grown
every year in Vermont, to furnish all
the manufactures that would be estab-
Iished, while now it goes few miles be-
yOnd it's State line in another State, to
be wrought into fabrics, and build up
Massachusetts, towns, employ their peo-
pie. enrich the manufacturer, and which
are brought directly back and sold to our
people by the merchants, Every pound
of wool grown in Vermont ought to be
manufactured and sold in Vermont.
When this shall be done Vermont will
be richer, more populous, and her indus
tries as thriving as they are in any of
her sister States, then we shall hear no
more of hard times, low prices of wool,
and decrease of population or losing of
our position in the scale of States at
every census.
The Yarmouth (Maine) Manufacture
ing Company are making a very fine ar
ticle Of paper from woody fible Of green
spruce. Why cannot such paper be
made profitable from the spruce of our
Green Mountains, and where better than
in Rutland. There is no more eligible
site for such a purpose than at Center
Rutland, where years ago, paper making
was the great manufacture and of prom
to the parties carrying on the business.
We cannot better close this article
than in brief manner give the value Of
manufactures in the United States.
! The manufacturing statistics about com
pleted, show the gross annual products Of
the manufactures Of the United States
/ to be but little less than two thousand
millions of dollars. The value Of manu-
factures IN the State of New York are
upwards Of six thousand millions OF dol
( lars. We are fast becoming IA nanntac-
/ turing nation and Vermont ought to be
among the leading manufacturing States.