The Grange advance., 1874-01-07

There are four employed in the two shops
and, the work done would probably reach
$4,000. The shop is new one just erect
ed this fall, and stands on the corner Of
Plumb and 4th Streets.
SEWERS & TOLVE,
occupying a shop on the westerly side of
Plumb st., to which they moved from their
old shop last fall, are engaged exclusively
in horseshoeing and general blacksmithing.
They have however made two pair Of bob
sleighs during the year. Three men are
employed in the shop and the gross re-
| ceipts of the bushes are S., 600. The pro-
prietors are faithful, Industrious men,
and understand their business
FOSTER & LAWRENCE. T..
are new firm just started and occupy .
shop in the rear Of the blacksmith shop of
Sewers & Telve. We found three men
busily at work making bob sleighs, and
were informed that they will make three
pair of bob sleighs per week. The firm e1-
pect to build a new shop in the spring, and
propose to devote themselves to the making
of wagons and sleighs, and will employ
more hands as their business developes.
SUMMARY.
By collecting the figures we find that
there have been manufactured in Red Wing
during the past year 10 breaking plows,
25 steel cross plows, so seeders, 68 har-
rows, 38 light sleighs, 320 pair of bob
sleighs, 43 light wagons, and 379 lumber
wagons.
These manufactures, together with the
incidental blacksmithing and repairing
business, has been of the total value Of
seventy -four thousand and seven hundred
dollars.
These manufactures include but very
few of the implements and machinery used
by the farmer on his farm, and these might
have been made with greater profit to the
manufacturers and less cost to the farmers,
with better facilities.
What Red Wing and score of other
places need are large agricultural machine
shops. It is not the towns alone that need
these, it is the whole country. Minnesota
is distant from eastern markets and manu-
factories, and freights however much they
are reduced must ever be a big item of cost.
Then it is well that we. help and encourage
our home manufacturers, who are struggling
against many difficulties to build up manu-
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We must have. More than this men who
have capital should unite that capital in
order to build up manufactures at home,
bring the consumers to our very doors, and
thus save freights at both ends of the
transportation routes, and enable us to deal
directly with the men who eat the products
Of our farms, and make our machinery,
without the Intervention of thousand mid
die men, in the shape Of railroad officers
engineers and hands, commission mer-
chants, shipping clerks, express agents,
canvassers, and so on to the end Of the list.
Why can there not be q general move made
in this matter this winter?
We shall have something to say about
cooper shops and Touring mills in our ne xt
issue.
1t is the opinion Of the The St
Louis Globe that "capital ought to
bear some share of the expenses of the
government which protects it. If
popular feeling in any States unjustly
assails the property rights Of bond
holders, railway owners, or other money
lenders Of the East, they look at once
to the Federal courts for protection,
and do not look in vain. But we re-
spectfully submit that we of the West
fought not to be forced to pay all the
cost Of the protection which they re-
ceive, all the cost of protection which
productive industry receives, and in
terest to the money-lender also. The
income-tax was paid chiefly by few rich
men in the Eastern States, and it was
the fairest tax ever imposed, simply
because such persons, whether they
live at the East or at the West, ought
to pay some share of the expenses Of
government, and no other Federal tx
reaches them except as it reaches
also the poorest laborer."
The human hand has been often
taken to illustrate Divine wisdom-and
very we'll. But have you ever examin-
ed your horses hoof? 1t is hardly less
curious in its way. Its parts are some.
what less complicated, yet their de.
sign is simple and obvious. The hoof