The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-23
What Railroads and Manufactu-
ries do for the Growth of the
Country.

Country.
The Harrisburg Patriot has col
lected the following statistics which
are of great interest. They show
that railroads are the very life of
business, for many of the manufac-
turing establishments named in its
very instructive article would never
have been established without the
railroads:
Living in this city, and paid by the
Pennsylvania Railroad, are over regi-
ment of men, to whom is paid SIS, 900
per month. This is fountain of green
backs in our city, and the spray from
this source, as it fails over us in the
shape of VS. and KS, delights the
hearts of our people. Millions of mon-
ey will be paid out by this giant corpo-
ration this year in laying double
track, much of which we doubt not
will find its way to this place. The eX-
act number of men employed by this
great corporation, as certified in writ
ing in answer to our communications
on the subject, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, is 100 men, and in the car
shops 100 men and boys. We have
from other large manufacturing estab-
lishments similar courteous answers as
to the number of men employed, which
we will now proceed to give, viz:
Lochiel Iron Mills, under the man.
agement of Mr.. A. S. Dull, and which
are now in thriving condition, $50
men employed and $500 paid out for
labor alone every month.
The Pennsylvania Steel Works en-
ploy 600 men and pay out $3.50 per
month to labor alone. OF these works
our report from the efficient manage
ment is much more voluminous than
from any of the others. They pay out
100000 per month, of which $4,000
go for freight and the rest for material.
The Harrisburg Cotton Factory en-
ploys $50 persons and pays out monthly
the sum of $1,000 for labor.
The Eagle Works employ 125 men
and pay out, on an average, $4,000 per
month for labor alone.
The Benjamin Singerly printing house
employs in all about 1872 hands and pays
out $4,000 per month for labor alone.
Colonel Harry Mccormick pays out,
at his furnace, the sum of $4,000; at his
rOlling-mill, i'll this city, $4,000, max
ing $4,000 per month, beside paying
out across the river the sum of S17. .OOC
per month, or, altogether, the enormous
sum of So, 900, and employs 600 men.
The Central Iron Works, under the
management of r. r. Chrisman, EN-.
ploys s5 men and pays out $4,000 pei
month for labor alone.
Robert Tippett, at his bOiler-works,
emplays $50 men and pays out over
$4,000 for labor alone.
Bay and Brother employ l3 men and
pay out $500 per month.
Mr.. Jones Wistar pays out at his fur
mace the sum of $1,000 per month for
labor alone, aud employs regularly &C
men.
Price & Brother, at their furnace,
employ 35 men and pay out $1,000 per
month.
The Chesapeake Nail Works, belong
ing to the Messrs. Charles and DR.. Geo.
Baily, employ $50 men and pay out
monthly for wages alone $4,000.
Daniel T. Wilson at the present time
employs from So to 40 men and pays out
from $500 to $1,000 per month for la
Dor alone.
The Northern Central Railroad, al
though not having its terminus here,
pays out for labor alone to persons who
reside here about $4,000 per month.
The Lebanon Valley Railroad, situa-
ted as the Northern Central, pays out
about $4,000.
w. W. Jennings, at his foundry, en-
ploys about 20 men and pays out about
$1,000 per month.