Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-21
OUR PECULIAR FACILITIES FOR
MANUFACTURING.

To the Union and American:
We took leisursly walk recently In our
streets and accidentally picked up a harness
buckle. We were forcibly struck that
buckle manufictory would be for Nashville
q new and lucrative business, and well
worthy Of the notice of young, active men
of brain, who have means, and are DESTROYS
of q pursuit profitable to themselves and
the country. With the moderate sum of
81 500 or s., 900, such q business could be
carried on with safety and a fair prospect of
success. Only the various dies and stamps
are needed, and a blacksmith to put the
metal into the rod shape. But in nine cases
out of ten the metal is already prepared,
where wire-making is speciality. In a
buckle-faetory can, at the same time, be
made tinsels of a thousand different species,
aud of all the different kinds of metal,
buckles for trunks, wire screws, ornamental
Rail-heads for looking glasses, shoe and peg
giDg avis, nine-tenths of all locks, spoons,
forks, etc. All these are made by stamps.
Such a mandatory as this, going ahead,
wo3ld draw 10 die and press makers and
keep one hundred hands busy year In and
year out.
FANCY SOAPS.
Among the manifold gew-gaWs, cosmet-
les and smelling-hottles TO be seen on the
Inqgniicently carved toilet-table, are always
found fancy soaps of every form aud hue.
In the elegant mansion, IS well as In the
modest dwelling, toilet soap is . constant
household necessity. Surely as bread is
the staff of life, so is nice so,p the prop of
cleanliness. OF course great quantities OF
it are consumed. We ought to manufacture
our fancy soap and keep the money expend-
ed for it at home. The necessary expense
of such an establishment is moderate, and
a good harvest is in store for a lioeral ma
ker $1,000 would be sufficient to run
soap factory on large scale. Stamping
machines would cost about $3.50. Carbon
ate of soda, an inferior quality Of olive oil,
perfumes of all sorts, and colering matters
are the main ingredients in the production
of soap. After cutting 1t into the sired
shapes with your stamping machines, your
toilet soap is ready for the market.
SHOE BLACKING.
The manufacture of shoe backing is a
creditable and paying business, and can be
carried on with small or large capital.
There is not in our town a wholesale or re-
tail grocery store, where it is not exhibited
in the baxes for sale, and accordingly the
consumption of it is very great. Let some
qualified man take up this business in Nash
vile, and if he be assiduous in his labors,
be will be abundanLly repaid. To make this
undertaking profitable, and TO fairly meet
all competition with other factories like
those of Cincinnati and other places, it is
advisable to obtain a portion of the mate
rails of which backing is made, directly
from first hands for cash. But ivory backing
which is q constituent of shoe backing,
should be made at the factory, because ss
the phosphorus pays ell the cost, bone
blacking win be net product. Twenty
to thirty hands, boys and girls, can be
easily employed. To directly oppose COM
petition with all other cities it is prudent to
cut the tin boxes by machinery 10 the fac
tory and not put the job out to tin makers,
and at the same time to procure the tin
from an eligible source. $1,000 would be
a sufficient capital to run such factory.
The machinery could be bought for about
$500. S. L. SIGMAN.