Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL "a, 1872.
NIanufactures---No, 3.

We take occasion again to lay before
our readers notes of the progress and
movements being made in the encour-
agement of manufactures in different
sections of the country, hoping to serve
the purpose of stimulating onr people to
the importance and necessity of manu-
features as forward step in the progress
and industry of Rutland.
A company organized to convert iron
into steel by new process, and also to
engage to some extent in the manufac-
ture of malleable iron, propose to locate
in Florence, Mass, provided the capital
lists of that place subscribe the requisite
funds. As all but about $4,000 of the
sum required has been subscribed, there
is little doubt but the company will soon
begin to erect thirty thousand dollar
shop. If Florence fails to raise the 3d.
600 the company will go to Hartford,
Conn. In connection with this project
let us ask what spot in this whole coun-
try is more favorably located for such
an enterprise and establishment than
Rutland 1t is in the geographical CEN
ter of the largest iron ore deposits of
New England and Northern New York,
and there are none richer in the whole
country. On the north are the ore beds
of Port Henry and Crown Point, on the
east are the Plymouth mines and on the
south are the rich ores of Tinmouth and
SALISBURY. Now it is very probable
that this very company, proposed to be
established at Florence will be depend
ant upon one or perhaps all of these ore
beds, almost within hailing distance of
Rutland, and it may be every pound they
use will pass directly through our town
in its transit. Is not this fact worthy of
the consideration of the people of Rut-
land. 1t is certainly a striking fact that
our town so prepared to do large man.
ufacturing business should lie in the very
heart of a surrounding iron deposit, easy
! of access in all directions, and yet not
pound of it is wrought in our town.
Wallingford seeing the advantages to be
derived from the Tinmouth ore, are to
erect blast furnace for preparing it for
the market, and which bids fair to add
largely to the business of that already
enterprising town.
Sandusky and Toledo, Ohio, have en-
tered into a contest to secure some i'm
mense iron-works, now in operation at
Portsmouth, that are seeking a location
that will afford greater facilities. We
wish Rutland would get into a contest
TO get somebody's iron works or any
thing else in the way of manufactures.
The San Francisco journals notice an
increased activity in the iron industry of
the Pacific Coast. The manufactures
are reported as busy in the erection of
new and improved machinery necessary
30 meet the requirements and improve
ments Of the times in the rendering of
the precious and other metals, from their
baser matrix. If the iron industry
Of the Pacific Coast are so pro-
sperous rs to need increased
facilitics-it ought to be a stimulus to
Rutland, located as it is in the heart of
the iron industry of the New England
States to take measures to commence its
manufacture and derive as they can if
they will, larger profits than can the
iron workers of the Pacific Coast.