The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-04-24
starch Mandatory.

In An Argument to capitalists to in.
vest In starch factory at Des Moines
the Register uses the following para
graphe. which bring forward facts and
make obvious deductions not alone in
teresting to the vicinity of Iowa's
capital city:
Among the many schemes of man
ufacturing now prominent In Des
Moines, none, as 1t seems TO US,
presents SO many inducements
| to capitalists AZ that Of starch making.
The profits on this manufacture are
sufficient to satisfy the most ambitious
One factory in Indiana, valued Al 'l'if-
ty thousand dollars last syear psid
profit of thirty thousand dollars. The
machinery was operated by coal that
cost 2ol cents bushel aud the corn
from which, the starch was made cost
forty cents bushel. All the starch
made by this mandatory was used by
cotton mills at Lowell, Massachusetts,
or shipped to Germany. That sold to
Massachusetts, was shipped by theear
load, without boxing. One thousand
bushels Of corn were consumed each
day, or three hundred thousand during
the year.
These figures are startlingly large,
and yet they are correct, and the profits
named were verified by men that in
vestigated the matter with reference
to establishing a similar factory in
Des Moines. They can be increased
here by just the difference in coal and
corn, for transportation by way Of the
Mississippi and the gulf--a route
whose advantages have been lately
Observation-Disclosures US as near New
England or Germany in point of
freight tariff as is indianapolis or
Pittsburg.
But Iowa star ch would not be COM |
PEELED to seek market SO far from the
place of manufacture. To-day the
starch factors of the East are buying /
corn in Iowa. They will pay fifteen
cents for the corn here, pay freight on
It to Oswego or Kingston, manufacture
1t into starch, box the starch, pay
freight en- it back to Iowa, and sell it
to us for as much per pound as the
corn, cost per bushel. II they can do
all that and make money-as they do
how much better can be done with
. factory here where the corn is raised,
where coal can be had for one-third
what it costs at Oswego, where freight
both ways can be saved.
Aside from the certain profits of such
n undertaking, there is the other and
,reater inducement of building up
market for the great staple of Iowa.
\ starch mill in Des Moines, with
'apacity to work up one thousand
bushels of corn day, would cost but
twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars,
'et 1t would create market for all the
orn Of hundreds of farms. 1t would
i've employment to twenty-five work
len. 1t would give employment to II
many more in making boxes, cariipg,
acking and the hundred and one
djuncts Of such an establishment. 1t in
'ould save to the consumer the profits ga
half dozen middlemen and trans ~
ortation companies.
It is not the town alone, as has been req
own, that would be benefited by Del
Oh an enterprise. The country sur 'p'
unding Dies Moines would reap
eater advantages than we. 1t would Z
'nish constant and reliable market me,
their crop-a cash market. Over. rba,
rked railroads would not affect it,
the product would be so condensed
{ Its shipment would be certain. >, ~ ~
ID regular yearly demand of three p \
dred thousand bushels of corn ther
ID to the present necessities. that Spri
lie would be materially enhanced
rice. Ar