The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-11-21

Der used, is S. to $40 per thousand feet cheaper
in Louisville than in the next nearest city,
and $50 less than in New York. 1t stands to
reason, then, that Louisville is the place to
buy furniture
STOVES, MANTELs AND CRATES.
This is another important branch of manu-
facture at this point. The trade in this line
of business extends into all of the Southern
States. In marbleized mantels and CRATES
Louisville ranks second in number of estab-
lishments and first in quality of goods. The
reputation of these houses is not confined to
the South, but extends even to Europe, where
there is good demand for their goods. The
capital employed in this branch of manufac-
ture aggregates something over million of
dollars.
CEMENT MILLS ETC.
Eight cement mills make $50, 900 barrels of
cement annually which finds market from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Can
adas to the Gulf This branch represents at
least a million of dollars.
TWENTY CARNAGE MANUFACTURES.
The carriages made in Louisville are of the
best class. The business done in these fscto-
res is enormous. The workmanship is re-
gsrded as superior to Eastern work, and the
styles of carriages are fully up to those man
ufactured in the East There are several
large shops where children's carriages and
toys are made exclusively, and these are
among the most active houses in the city.
There are also a number of wagon manu-
factories, which are growing in business and
reputation year by year. One of these firms
make the famous A ans and Southern Ex-
press wagons, which are shipped to al parts
of the country. There could not be better
evidence of the high and substantial charac-
ter of their work than this.
THE IRON TRADE.
The increase in the amount of pig iron con-
sumed in the various branches of manufacture
in the cities of Louisville, New Albany and
Jacksonville during the past fifteen years, is
estimated at eight hundred per cent. This
large consumption has had fresh impetus
by the recent large increase in the production
of pig iron in the Southern States. All
iron coming from the North by river is
freighted to Louisville at a cost of but
25c per ton over Cincinnati, while the freight
on all Southern iron is SI.4S ton more to Cir
cinnAti than to Louisville. This gives the lat
ter city an average advantage of SI.23 over
its Northern rival. The effect of this is seen
in every instance where the two cities come
in competition st interior points on large
contracts. Ten years ago Cincinnati manu-
/ facturers beat their Louisville competitors at
| almost every point, and even sent work to
Louisville. To-day the whole thing is revers-
ed, and thousands of tons of iron are manu-
1 featured in Louisville and shipped to Cincin-
natl whose iron manufacturers can not COM
pete with Louisville. The United States Gus
tom-house and the Music Hall at Cincinnati,
are cases in point, in which the difference in
cost of pig iron enabled Louisville manufactu-
rers to compete successfully with Pittsburgh,
| Cleaveland, st. Louis and Cincinnati. Louis
vile now holds contracts for the iron work of
large number of the finest structures now be-
ing erected in the Western States, such as the
United States CustOm-house at Cincinnati,
State Capitol at Indianapolis, building for the
State, War and Navy Departments, Washing
ton city.
1t is estimated that 900 tons of iron will
be used within the next year in the architec-
tural branch alone, in the construction of fine
iron fronts in Cincinnati, Chicago, Colum bus,
DAYTON and other cities in Ohio Indiana and
Illinois,
In addition to the extensive operations of
Louisville manufacturers in the Northwest,
her merchants are shipping large amounts OF
the choice Southern iron to Chicago, Cleve-
land, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and other prOmi-
nent iron manufacturing cities in the North
ern States The fact is that Louisville is to.
day the cheapest pig iron market in the
United States, and is showing the largest pro
portionate increase in the consumption of iron
of any city in the country. This relative
cheapness is owing to her central and accessi'
Bile position to the iron producing districts IL
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, of which
she is the geographical center, all of which
compete for the trade of her manufacturers
This advantage can not be wrested from her
and is making itself felt in all directions.
During the last year the Perrin & Gaf Co
of Cincinnati, manufacturers of shelf hard
ware, have removed to Jacksonville, wher
they employ 400 hands. The Burgess Stee
and Iron Company, of Portsmouth, Ohio
have been agitating the subject of moving
their entire works to Louisville wholly OF
account of the advantage of its position a
to the purchase of raw material and tn
facilities for the distribution of the produc
of the works.
The Union Pipe Works, in 1875, meltet
into gas and water-pipe %, 900 tons of metal
in 1876, $4,000 tons; in 1877, 10000 tons, ant
this year the amount of metal used in thei
immense foundry will not fall short of 20, 90