The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-19
rae Pottery BUSINESS.

aome information About the
Trade-What the East Liverpool
! Men VIII Do and What stem.
benville Talks Of Doing.
sseubenVEIs Caste Of he 18Th.
Ameetinr for coniultAtiOn with East
Liverpool gentlemen as to a pottery in
sNubepyiiIe, was held at the County Re-
oorders ofioe yesterday evening, and there
vere present from Eat liverpool Messrs.
Garlic, johnson, Rigby and Haden. Ga
motion Of Capt Mccain Hon. J. Dunbar
was made chairman, and W.. I. Campbell,
and W. q. Hunter we're appointed secre-
taries.
Mr.. Dunbar stated that he only knew
Of the object Of the meeting from a
postal card received BY him with the an
nouncement that he was invited to attend
the convention for consultation "a 10 q
pottery. He was exceedingly sorry 10
zee 3 few Of the business men Of the city
present-they Of all others ought 10 take
q deep interest in anything that tends TO
The welfare Of the industries Of Stenben-
vile. Il il apparent TO all that we must
do something 10 increase u prosperity.
We must either 20 backward or forward,
and while the latter would seem more pos
sibls for a city Of vast natural advantages
-one Of the best rivers In the country
and excellent railroad facilities the first
seems now more probable, and from some
cause or another our business interests
have languished and are even now Ian
gushing, and we have not grown to
much Of = city. There must be some
other cause than the lack Of natural ad.
yantages, and that cause Ii just the rea-
son there are no more business men at
the meetings-there %appearsto be q very
noticeable lack Of interest. There Is one
thing certain-we must grow by manuiac.
lures. We have had many factories that
have died out. At one time vi had q
large cotton factory and many large WOOL
en- mills, which are now gone forever,
and we must engage In others to take
their places. We must 60 backward IL
something is not done TO increase the
manufactures Of the city; and we must
engage In those that are most likely TO
give employment 10 idle men. APP
~pearances Indicate that the business
10 establish here is q pottery. From what
he knew about the pottery trade, he was
very iayorably impressed with its impor-
lance. In this region 1t has proved to be
the most prosperous Of any other. II
thereis anyone interest In this region that
nays we'll, that interest Is the ceramic.
We zee the town Of East Liverpool pros
porous and happy, while all around il
business Is languid and men are idle. II
Is we'll that We consider this question not
only In conference but activity. What
will il cost and how much money a be
obtained to erect u pottery here2 Our
s%tronRest efforts should be devoted TO the
erection Of the first, and then II It Is sue
cessfully operated there will be others
follow. II we are able TO start one VI
will establish more. Capital should push
the frst one along and the others would
take care Of themselves. We deeire to
know the expense Of establishing a pot
terry, and as there are gentlemen here
from East Liverpool who are practical
potters, we hope to have some iniorma-
lion from them.
Mr.. Rigby, Of Esst Liverpool, stated
that be was the oldest potter in East Lty-
erpool, having started there in the max
ing Of yellow ware ~thirty.fye years ago.
He established one small pottery, and
now there are twenty two large establish
ments in that town-eleven white ware
and eleven yellow ware. He said he had
been IN the business both for himself and
on salary, and made money out OF It.
Six years ago but one white ware pottery
was In the town, and this year there have
been five new potteries started. The cit.
liens there raised 5000 for the estab.
lishment OF the first white ware pottery,
and since then Elk yellow ware potieries
have been converted into the much better
paying white ware establishments.
Most Of the Liverpool potteries have
five kilns, which require $4,000 to es.
tsblish and operate, or about $4,000 per
kiln. TO build n two kiln pottery will
require $4,000, a four kiln $4,000.
This is the cost four years ago. They
eau be built much cheaper now. The
pott4ries he referred TO put in $1,000 or
$1,000 engine and paid Sl4 so per thou.
sand fos brick. The expense Of a pottery
he summed up as follows, giving high
estimates:
Buildings aud lila. ....-... zee. -....s 100
slOns sOrk and ioundAtlon--..-..... .......- 500
$40 ..-.".... NJ
Moalds................, .........- ....... ...... ....~.. 1000
| lIpgHf1. mill HQmQlIA1 III
Tools and bundhef .....-.. ......... ............... 100
clay, glsEe. cobalt, .........r............... l,2Gi
Plaster Of PAris.--.. .... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS go
Clay nil 2,OO0
Engine and boiler .-........-.....,..... ..... ..... bOi
Ssgssrs, dummy aud work boaT0 ....-. ..... 10
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