The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-11-14
Cittsens Meeting for the Promotion nj
Our nsanutacturiug interests.

home Industries. Ihe meeting was
organized by calling Mayor w. l.. Orr
to the chair, and the appointment of
:. Il. Evans. Esq, Secretary.
Hon. Il, III. Stiles was called upon to
state the object of the meeting, where.
upon he said hat il behooved us as
citizens of Ottumwa and vicinity. to
look after. with Jealous care, our man
ufacturing interests. He referred to
other cities in the State. that have
taken effective measures 10 advertize
their resources TO the world. This
meeting he said, is called to accomplish
a like object for this city, and to organ
ize All association of our citizens, 10
further this end.
He said that II. $. Hyatt Esq, of
Des Moines, Editor of the Ioro Pro.
g,ess. was present, who would address
the meeting, and who was we'll versed
upon the resources of the State. Nj.
stiles further remarked that aow was
the time for us TO act: that in a very
few years the great manufacturing
centers, in this State, were to be deter
mined upon, and that we should be
behind. unless we went Immediately
10 work. He spoke al some length Of
our Invaluable natural advantages and
at the close of his remarks introduced
Mr.. Hyatt.
The substance Of Mr.. Hyatts plan,
which he proposed in his remarks, was
to build up home manufactures and
so create a market at home, for the
productions of our soil. Make great
manufacturing commercial centers in
Iowa and our immense surplus pro-
auctions will find, to a great degree, a
market at home, without %transporta-
ton abroad, of their products.
He said, this city has now about
5000 people and most magnificent re-
sources for manufacturing that no
place perhaps in the State excelled it.
These are the truthes, in the form of
statistics, that should be known abroad,
in order to induce the surplus capital
of the East, to find its way here to de-
velop these resources.
DIR. Hyatt said that upon careful in
quiry he had learned that the farmers
of the State paid twelve millions of
dollars last year for agricultural i'm
plements which were manufactured
out of the State; that the freight on
these implements was one and a half
millions. That the people of this
State paid for stoves last year, nearly
all of which were manufactured out of
the State, the sum of Sl,500,O00, and
freights upon the same to the amount
of 100000. He said he mentioned
these things merely as examples to
show the drain of money from the
State by foreign manufacturers and
the loss on freights. A large share of
all these freights could be saved and
the most of the money. paid out to
eastern manufacturers, be retained in
the State, if we will only develop our
own idle and now Improbable resour-
ces, lying at our own doors, by encour-
aging manufacturing. He said he en-
gagged in the work Of gathering statis-
ties of our resources in Iowa, two
years ago. al the urgent request OF
Gov. Merrill, in order to put them in
book form. II is proposed to publish
25.oD copies OF this work. The
State takes a certain portion of these
books. Localities which desire can take
pages in the work, paying therefor,
and be entitled [ 0 Il certain number OF
The books. Ii must be remembered
that the work is published under The
Endorsement of the Governor of the
State, and therefore, thus Endorsed.
will be a kind of standard compilation
of what Iowa is. We cannot undertake
to follow Mr.. Hyatt through his speech.
Suffice it to say, he made an excellent
speech, elninently practical and con-
vincing. AT the close of his speech,
Col. Summers made the following mo-
tsnx, Tl,at m .,nxn,ktioo ~ tL.nn lo
appointed to draft a plan of associa-
ton for the city to adopt at its next
meeting to be held on Tuesday even
ing next, 18th inst.-said committee to
report at that meeting.
After remarks by Col. Summers
Hon. e. III. Stiles, Gen. Hedrick, j. &.
Hutchinson, Esq, B. b. Durfce, Maj.
Porter and others, the motion was
adopted and Col. Summers, E. I'll.
Stiles and VIM Daggett were appoint
ed such Committee.
A. Fl. Hamilton then moved that .
committee Of three be appointed to
take all necessary steps thought proper
to secure a proper turn out at the meet
ing on next Tuesday evening. A. III.
Hamilton, j. G. Hutchison and James
Hawley were appointed such commit
tee.
The Hon. L. Ill. Stiles then offered
the following resolution, which, after
some discussion, was adopted:
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this
meeting that the City Council make
an appropriation for a suitable space
in the work soon to be issued by I'll. S.
Hyatt, under the auspices of the State
Board of immigration, devoted to the
manufacturing of Iowa, to
the end that the manufacturing advan.
tages and resources of Ottumwa may
be therein set forth and presented.
On motion the meeting then ad.
iourned. WIN. L. ORR,
s. j. EVANS, Sec. Chrman.
MARRIED.