Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-08
Our Peculiar Facilities for Mann.
facturing.
To the Union and American:
WATNIrS


To succeed in any branch of manufac
ture, practical knowledge and self-direct-
ing mind are indispensable. Leaning on
other mems shoulders and being subjected
to bias and influence viii soon break up in
dustrial undertaking in any shape or form.
Even skilled operatives cannot he trusted
with safety; surely leak springs up and
the ship goes to the bottom. The success
full manufacturer is acquainted with sil the
requisites, with all the out-goings and in
comings, ups and downs of well-regulated
establishment and asks no questions of any
body. In his person, he represents the
watchfnl overseer and the polite salesman;
presides over the registry of debts and
credits, and, when spare time Is left to him
he puts the finishing strokes to his manu-.
featured goods and wares. The most of
this sort of manufacturers very often begin
business with small capitsl but raise
themselves soon to prominence and
exalted reputation. The first manufacturer
of matches in the city of New York, in
Riviugton street, began making matches
with one dollar. At that time he bad
wife and six children, all in ragged condi-
tion; and now to this man with his Cne
dollar well laid out, the Herkimer Match
Works, of Herkimer county, in the State Of
New York, owe their origin, and cannot be
purchased at this day for q million dollars;
but such thrifty man was watched by the
eye of self direction. A man of this sort
would be desirable for Nashville to start
at match-manufacturing. Five hundred
dollars will start good establishment, suf-
fieient for the surrounding country of our
city. The most important thing is dry
house with cost of $3.50. All the other
commodities are cheap; $50 worth of ma.
terials will make $1,000 worth of matches,
labor being the principal cost.
PHOSPHORUS AND BONEBLACK,
Many little negroes in tattered garments,
are moving to and fro in our streets, look
ing for some odd catcb-job to raise bright
nickle. Why do they not pick up bones,
which are plentiful? Many bags can be
filed in the course of day by juvenile
dafkey. But are there among us any pur-
chasers for the bones of the animal king-
dom, as there are in treat numbersof other
cities, East and West? After I'll our in
quiries, we cannot answer this question
positively. Now, here is another new
business for q wido-awake man with
small means to begin with, to better bis
worldly affairs swiftly aud surely.
Bones thrown away by the housewife
heedlessly are valuable for parti .u.lar pur-
poses. Phosphorus is Manufactured from
boaes, and theresidue of the bone dust is
D epsred by calcinstioD to bone black. Its
uses are numerous. furthermore, thous-
ands of tons of bone-dust, termed phosphate
of lime, are used for fertilizing the soil. All
the long bones of any animal, by saving off
the beads or the joint part of the bone, ara
highly appreciated in the cutlery depart
ment for buttons, rings, ETC., and bring
large price.
BOOT AND SHOE PEGS.
Nothing is necessary for its manufacture
but the timber and machinery for scribing
and splitting. One hundred dollars would
make a good seginn'Dg. In Connecticut,
where shoe and boot pegs are principally
manufactured from maple, is worth twenty
dollars cord; here in Tennessee It can be
bought easily for five dollars cord, deliver
ed a. the factory. Boot and shoe pegs do
not go out OF style, and we c. Il it safe and
plying business. s II STGMAE.