The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-06-03
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Chic as a Manufacturing state.
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Ohio was admitted into the UniOn
in 1902. Up to 1850 the Increase oi
her population, wealth and production
was the marvel of the century. For
the last twenty-five years the fertility
of man has not suffieed 10 evolve any
thing original in panegyric. on the
subject Of Western development; for
poetry, oratory, and even hyperbole,
had been exhausted before the greater
marvel of Illinois demanded an ap-
plause that can be given only second
| hand-for Ohio had evoked ail that
admiration could invent. CiDcinnati
in those days was the "Qaeen 4 City,
of the West, and the most brilliant
| literary outlaw Of the Chicago press
cannot contrive to-day a figure or
flower OF speech that has not been
uttered-a blast that has not been
blown, shot that has not been fired
twenty years ago to the glory OF
Cincinnati. Yet, so regular is the law
of succession of industrfes, agriculture,
commeree aud manufactUres in their
order, that ID is only ofrecent years
thai Ohio, populou5, rich, and abund-
lantiy supplied with everything requi-
site, has become a great manufactur-
ing State. There was a striking SYM
metry in the growth of that great
Commonwealth. At the first, the
raising of grain and cattle then, a
canal era, the most public spirited
and successful of the time, by which
multitudes of commercial villages
grew-fOlloEed later by the railway
system and finally, the uprising on
every hand of manufacturing towns.
Places that had fiOurished as the CEN
ters of exchange in a mere county, of
produce and merchandise, looking no
further and content with one or two
thousand inhabitants, by dozens have
Fbeeome ambitious of late years to scat
ter the sash, blinds and mOuldings, or
the starch or soap, or the stoves and
plows, or rtbe- carriages and other
wheeled vehicles, or the reapers and
mowers, corn-shellers and cultivators,
or the shovels and spades, or the
windOw-stOps and wash-bOards of
their local manufacture over half the
continent while the great iron works
such as locomotives. and other en-
gines, aud vast fOundries, oHe3- cau-
tioasly esssyed BY Miles Greenwood
aud Lsrz Anderson atCincinnsti, now
make Pittsburghs of Cleveland, Day
ton and dozen lesser cities besides
Cincinnati. Places like Columbus,
Evansville. Springfield, Newark, Lam
caster, SteubenvilIe, Circleville, and
many more that Buckeyes residing in
Chicago have hardly had time to hear
Of. display their products in our own
Chicago markets, and display orders
that they have filled from New Eng
land, and even from Europe.
But this manufacturing develop
ments OF the oldest of the Northwest
ern States has but begun. The statis-
tics reported to the State Legislature
showed two years ago how, in an un-
precedentedz degree, village and city
population was increasing in Ohio at
the relative expense of rural life,
New towns rise up with extraordinary
fecundity. Every one is simply q
factory-tOwn, and with coal, iron and
timber on every hand, and market
wherever a boat or a rail ear cln 60
it needs only to put up the machinery
and the population gathers. II il
happens at an ancient and sleepy
village, it may be but accident. Thus
we see it stated, that at Cambridge ar
establishment OF glass-works ON
splendid scale Is about to be consum,
mated. SomerSst, "a still soundei
sleeper and half q ruin, with infinite
sand banks, has been talked of for tht
like enterprise. At the petty town o
North Amherst orders come from
Georgia aud from CalifOrniafOr grind
stones and monumental obelisks
Meantime, the more elaborate anC
delicate kinds of mRnufacture OF arti
cles of worldw demand are begin
lining to pull up from the far east am
settle in the manufacturing cities o
Ohio. Thus, quarter of a million D
capital is subscribed ID establish ::
great sewing machine factory a
fSpringfield, while at Clncinnat phil
osophicsl and optical insfrumeut
promise an early and splendid prom
inence. With all the harships of thl
i times, many of the greatest factories
are about to put forth bolder effort
The Hall Safe Company at Cincinnati
already turn out twenty safes pc
day, and are about to greatly increast
their means of supplying their grow
ing demand. Oae of the earliest de
veloped NJ m2natactures in OEio wa
that Of carriages and bug ggies, mostly
at Massillon, in ths canal days. Bu
now q score OF places turn out .thei
thousand vehicles a year. The furni
ture trade was the leading manufae
turing interest in Cincinnati twenty
years ago, finding vast market b.
river in the South. i.-
Butge nsed not multiply instances
and examples. We regret the wan
of space far treating in statistical de
tail so rich field of observation -aai
reflection as the splendid msnufac
turing industries of Ohio.-C CIicdgi
Western Manufacturer. 4f fet
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