Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-27
LEXINGTON.

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| !iStou Gail IbIHt WIN uioIc piluc tlnH
her two carriage and buggy factories
one situated on Franklin street. that "i
David Russell Esq. and the other on the
corner OF Main and Poplar street,
Messrs ClowdsIy, Wotawa < Go. Both
of these firms are composed of old citi-
zens of Lafayette county. who have
been in their respective callings, and al
the same locations Tor many wears.
There IS scarcely u village anywhere
that has not what it calls Il carriage shop,
where vehicles that pass for bug
gics, &c are made. but in the establish
men;s to which We here allude as line
work IS turned out as can be procured
IN anv city in the east. Messrs Card
ol 81. Louis. Rogers, OF Philadelphia. or
any OF the leading manufacturers OF
the country might teel proud of some OF
the Jobs made by them. They use the
very best of material in all departments.
and it is no unusual thing To see in their
shops Tor repair buggies that they made
fifteen OF sixteen wears ago, which have
been in constant service ever since, and
which with 4 little expense are given u
new lease OF life Persons sometimes
complain that these shops charge 20 to
- per cent more for their work thsn
eastern Jobs OF the same description
can be brought for. They have only 10
purchase one eastern Job, as the writer
did once some years ago, to lind that it
would have been genuine economy to
have paid 80 per cent more for home
made Job. Eastern carriage work made
Tor sale iE the ives, is made 10 sell cheap.
it is consequently cheaply made, and
paint ia made to hide 4 hundred iiaws
ami defects which lett naked to view
would condemn the work. Our manu-
ia to their interest 50 to do. AS their Gus
tomers are near them. and rs every
good Job is favorable and every bad
one AN uutavor;,ble advertisement. If
they promise you Sarvcn wheels. best
tempered springs and aXles. they use
them, and the Saryen wheel has the
rlvets in the telloes on each side of every
spoke, the springs are not only the best
in the shop. but the best that can be pro-
cured for money, and the aHles the same.
So that while their pant may not sur
pass that Of eastern makers. it covers
more substantial and better work Lex
iugton buggies are used all over the
western part OF the state, and whenever
q person uses one they never buy else
where if they can hell it. We look for
this branch of business to grow and
flourish with the advent of better times.
and in the course of few years to be
one ofthe leading industries OF our town.
extending its sales into northern Mis-
souri, and Kansas, through st. Joseph
Kansas City. Leavenworth. Atchison.
and other cities.
WAGONS
self preservation is said TO be The first
law OF nature, and while as applied to
life this principal is 80 generally recog
nized rs to have grown into Il maxim. it
i, really singular how in the material
interest of community 1t is absolutely
lost sight Of Tens OF thousands OF dol
lars annually go ont Of the county tor
agricultural machinery and implements
which should be nisde at home. That
they are not so made is to some degree
the tault of the purchaser There are
in Lexington several manufacturing es-
tablishments. and willie i, Is generally
conceded that manufacturing is needed
in the county 10 advance the general i'll
terest, still gentlemen already engaged
in it have right to complain to some
extent that they are not properly en-
couraged-do not have the same chances
offered them as do outside makers in
the same line. This is especially the
case in regard TO wagons. Nine men
in ten who come to town to buy 3 wagon
go directly to the agricultural ware
house. and never think of calling on our
own shops. We frequently take occa-
sion to examine the wagons made in
this city by Messrs. Hall, Nicholson x
Co. on Cedar street. near Jordan's
foundry, and by Mr.. John Quandt. on
the corner OF Franklin and Poplar
streets, and we observe their work be-
fore it is painted. which is the proper
time to see Just what kind OF material
is used, and we can safely say that these
gentlemen can very easily demonstrate
10 anyone that their hand made work is
superior IN almost every respect to the
machine made wagons imported here.
and sold at as high Il price rs they ask.
Though this is the case there are proba-
bly, twenty foreign built wagons sold 10
one homemade, and this principally
from the fact that purchasers do not give
our own makers fair chance to show
work. When you buy a ioreIgn wa
gon, the only money which remains in
the community is the dealers profit
When You purchase a homemade wagon
Your money goes-firSt the profit to the
maker. wages to hands and price Of
timber. t" citizens OF your own comfy
and second back To yourselves. as
these persons are all Your customers
for wheat. oats. corn, tobacco and pro-
visions. AS we understand it one of the
principal objects of the combination of
farmers in oranges and societies is to
make war on high freights. unnecessary
middlemcn. who useleSsly tax com
mcrce, and to bring producer and con-
sumner closer together than they have
been in the past. How can they do this
more etlectually than by increasing the
number oi consumers in their immediate
vicinity. Properly encouraged. where
there is now one man engaged in wagon
masking in Lexington, there mi ght be
fifty These additional mechauics, with
their families. would have to come from
abroad, their money would be spent
here for the nccessaries of life,