, 1877-01-27

cone depOpul8ted whenever the I'm
Der is cut away and the coal mined
out, unless we use the profits on
that coal and timber to start manu-
factures and thus preserve the vi
tality of our city. Take the world
over and you find the greatest opu-
lence where there is the most skilled
labor. Take the little Swiss city of
Neufchatel, with its jewelry facto-
ries, located eight hundred miles
from the sea, and the whole of Sc
attic, with her magnificent harbor,
would not buy one-third of Neuf-
chatel. That is the diffeeence be-
tween skilled and unskilled labor.
One is a well-fed artisan, the other
a ragged tramp.
HOME CAPITAL
Is needed, however, to develop such
an enterprise, for San Francisco
would not lend us one dollar upon a
collateral of ten, to inaugurate such
enterprises. 1t will take at least
twelve thousand dollars for the erec-
ton of buildings and machinery,
seven thousand more for stock, and
then at least six thousand more for
working capital. to give the retail
dealers such liberal credit as would
cause them to discontinue purchas-
ing like goods in San Francisco.
This would make total of twenty
five thousand dollars which should
be divided into shares of fifty dol
lars each, so as to get the entire
business community interested in
THE SUCCESS OF THE PROJECT.
If properly managed, the factory
ought to he able to export two
thirds of what it works up, in addi-
ton to supplying the entire local
traffic. 1t would give employment
to not less than one hundred and
twenty men, within year after its
organization, thus distributing on
payday, into every avenue of trade,
not less than $11, 900 per month.
Artisans are consumers, and not
primary producers, hence they look
to farmers for their bacon, eggs,
vegetables, milk and butter; and to
the grocer for all o:her articles of
domestic consumption. Therefore
it is easily seen how a company of
this sort would benefit the city
disbursing here not only the wages
OF its employees, but also spending
in other local enterprises the profits
OF their labor.
GOOD LOCATION
For an enterprise of this kind can be
had in the Southern portion of the
city, without any expense for build
ings of any sort, as there are already
enough of them on the ground.
There is abundance of good water
in the neighborhood for t.nning
purposes. In front of the premises
d wharf can be built at nominal ex-
pense, to bring up green hides and
carry away shoes and leather.
There are cottages near by for the
married workmen and a boarding
house for the single ones, within
easy access of the main center of
business. As there are not more
than twenty men in town that
would or could work in such an es-
tablishment, it would bring one
hundred more working men here
within twenty days after its COM
pietion. The only drawback upon
the premises would he
THE WANT OF BARK,
And that would be easily supplied
by bringing hemlock bark from
Dungeness and Port Discovery,
and oak bark from the vicinity of
Olympia and Steilacoom, near which
after place grows the best oak in
the Territory. The experiments
made here by Davis in 1872, and by
u. X. Baxter subsequently, have
established the fact that good
leather Can be made here, and all
lthatis necessary is the capital to
conduct the work on a large scale.
Two thousand hides per month
could be easily obtained from all
the Sound ports, if the stock was
we'll distributed about all the towns.
1t needs some energetic and careful
man to head the enterprise and give
our city "a new impetus in the cause
of home Industries. Who is he