Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-02
Our Msnufaeturing and Mechanical
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IN the department of manufactures, our
city is steadily increasing, both in the variety
of production end value of produces; few
persons not making It their business 10 be in
formed accurately from time to time can
form any idea Of the silent strides being
made towards making Us large and pros
porous manufa TURNS city that we have
been ordained by nature TO be, but how
sooE? This is the QUESTION a1d-m1ss be
answered by those favored few who have
the pulling of The parse strings. 1F
There las been so much said and written
at those modern glsucci that IL seams like
ever scattering chsff before the wind; they
have been vOoed in the most dulcet strains
imaginable and billy ragged la John Nc
Cam, but sll with like results, and if in
their wisdom they would only take an Oecs-
siOnsl glance at the results being achieved
by the struggling few, no dOub5 financial
aid would be forthcoming to help along.
The following approximate list of manu-
facturing enterprises will furnish an idea of
what we are now doing in Nashville: Seven
saw mills, on both banks of the river, five
-four mills, e. ht planning mills and sash
and blini foctorias, two cotton
seed oil mills, two tanneries,
one cedar ware, two chair, four furniture,
three wagon, four carria e factories, svsral
mattress, saddle-tree AID trunk factories,
six foundries, six machine shops, two brass
foundries, breWeries, distilleries, paper
mills, broom fact Jries, fertilizer factories,
shoe and clothing factories, with quite a
number of small1r and yet useful estabIi b.
meuts that go % swelling the sum total, and
give employment to the iniusLriously dis
Va rNCfIinr- Of ks.r
factory and railroad shops, that alone would
go to represent 81, 000, 600, capital, whereas
the concerns enumerated above must repre-
sent 81, 800, 000-in all say $4,000 This
is no OverdI avn picture. Without going
more into d-tail, We are sure all that is
needed is to put this great subject in
proper way before our readers who cannot
fail 10 see the necessity of fostering in our
midst every producing establishment be it
ever so small. II will grow. Help 1t along!
by doing so you help yourselves by enhanc-
ing the value of estate; now suppose some
talismaDic power would only scatter in add
ton $2,500,000 n our midst IN similar aud
other manufacturing enterprise, for instance,
large machine shops for specialdes- stove
and hodowwsre foundries, agricultural and
plow factories, Car shops and car-wheel
foundries, furnaces, rolling mills, nail fac
tories, safe, marbleized nantes, metallic
ca, Ike S, and one hundred and one other
things we should be making and supplying
the South with. just imsging the sending
of iron ore from Tennessee and Ala0sma
to Indiana and Ohio, and then shipping
manufactured goods back through cur city
to the South! We wa more co5t0n fseto-
ries, wooden factories and print works; in
fact, we can make any specially pay, with
cur supply of fuel from five or six different
directions-the base Of all manufacturing
industry. We have everything IT, lose
nothing TO calmly the laisser .filire plan
we have so long practiced, and nov, by
rendering timely a to foster our growing
industries, there is every reason to believe
that in the present decade our population
will be doubled.