The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-03-28
A WORD FOR OTTAWA.

icy bolts and bars from teemng nature, an
sun and air invite industry forth from 1t
= hibcrnal lair again to SOW and reap an
garner.
II The approaching season gives promise {
Z being one Of unwonted activity. The wintt
II has been one Of more than ordinary rest.
&C followedclosc on the heels oca severe bushes
panic, Snd many indoor industries, that wer
NJ wont to show their greatest activity durin
o the winter, shared the torpor of outdoor OF
$ equations, the panic frost proving as insu
. Reuntable as that Of king Boreas.
0 The consequence is, that stocks have ru
. down; balances have been settled none
thus withdrawn from active use, has account
' lated in bank vaults and at financial center;
and is seeking investment in new venture
, ard enterprises
The hcadlong rush for new railroads, il
which all the available capital ef the countr,
for the last few years had been absorbed, ha
received check from which it will tax,
some years to recover, so that all the NOR,
capital is available for manufacturing enter
prises,
The west is already beginning TO under
stand and appreciate this, and already we SEE
| in all the towns around Us movements tc
invite manufacturers at the east TO move theil
establishments, or branches of them, to favor
able localities in the west Watch factories
sewing machine factories, carriage factories
iron works, glass works, cotton mills, and all
those heavy industries through which the
west is placed under sdoh heavy tribute to the
east fine localities in the west where all these
industries can be pursued with quite as
much profit as al the east, and often to much
greater.
Take Ottawa for instance For cotton
mills we have decided advantages over most
New England towns We can get cotton
cheaper by a cent a pound than it can be laid
down in New England; we have abundance
OF water power and al tenth the cost IN
New England; we have as cheap labor, fuel
at half the cost, al, the railroad and water
transportation at our doors that any town can
haze, and we have better market for cotton
goods by from to3 cents yard than any
New England town can have for all the mills
brilt in the west in 20 years will not supply
the great demand fer cotton goods that comes
from the great west beyond US.
The same is true of the situation of Ottawa
IN regard 10 steel u iron works. The Pitts |
surgh manufacturers say they can no longer
begin to supply the demands Of the west, on
account Of the great demand that,has grown
up lately for their goods at the eas.. The
late improvements in the manufacture Of iron
and steel In this country, together with the
rapidly increasing cost of fuel and ore in L
have driven out English conpeti.
ION, and our iron manufactures are beginning
o supply foreign markets that were hitherto
nonopol:zed by England. so the west must
Don make and work up its own iron. What
for such works has any point in
he west over Ottawa? We have the coal, the
labor, the ground, and cheap water and rail.
road Transportation to all parts OF the world i
Let Ottawa wake up on this subject Shall
We lie dormant because we are o,,ersha6owed {
~ Chicago? This great army of maaufac |
uring industries that has already began to t
move westward is not seeking cur large cities Ie
'ays the Chicago Times: f
The great c. AZ O. railroad colauanv t
Establishes its manufactures at Aurora iorty fl
niles from Chicago The VI. $. comDany h
uts Its works at Elkhart in Indiana The
JOCK Island, to get cut of Chicago, pocs ia
nc town OF Lake; the Northwestern 10 the u
'wn OF Cicero; and the Alton prefers point C
carer ~. Louis. Only one railway co,p many n
'ects lie factories in ChicaCo,-the Illinois
ehtral and that, bcdt observed is the onlv u
'ad not liable ID the annual raids of the city Il
AgaIhe-erS. The extensive Necker Il Go Iva
on and steel works link so much Of tbc ;,
iperlor advantages o! Chicago as a poi9t for +
that they 90 10 Joliet, where G
splle % Chlcago'S superior advantage. the y
'ost promising manufacturing city in north 4
II ILLINOIS, II n& in Illinois, is Swinging IN a.
nc fullMah ca, company are also strangely
lielhi 10 Aeep their works away from Chi.
go Watch factories pass by Chicago to d
lglh ana me cfaYiish region to tie south
az VI lhe CITY. Even tobacco works seek ri,
,aukeganr ana hc home of the anlarous VI
Y gator at Calumet outbids.Chicapo as a W
ace Tor manufactures LA
The inference * the Hia,s that it d. Chi "a
2" taxation that driycsihese big establish. Sc
eili' to the smalle- towns is not WHOLLY cor. Fl
e. Not only is taxation less, but the cost Ia
hvlDg is less and the operatives are liz
aad!er and norc to be relied upon IN small ~
ties than in the large ones tn
"h~ Ottawa nec,G TO do is 10 ipSite on
here in such a way that they
Ill coiAe. We have abundance of copitaI II
ere Half million Of dollars can be raisej tn
Ottawa any day for An enterprise that will, o.
warranty profit of ten per cent There are Sa
do|en OF heayy establishments in Pittsburgh ci,
one that can send branches he-c and insure on
oh profit either in The mar ufacture of III,
ass or iron, or toos and implements in vi,
iozen departments. Let there be- n rousino ar,
'eting of our Business Mems Association ar,
1t Monday evenin, and some s,eps taken ",
this subject that look like doing some. wa