Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-30
POTTERY.
What Wheeling Might DO i'm that
Trade.

For some time past, the subject OF
pottery in this city has been freely agl-
lated and discussed pro. and con. Cal
culations have been made, consultation
held and the plethoric pockets oicertaln
capitalists sounded. But thus lar nothing
definite has been done in the way OF es-
tablishing a mandatory here. Several
prominent gentlemen are known to be
consulting on the matter, but they re-
port nothing to be made public.
Meeting one OF these gentlemen last
night, a REGISTER envoy turned the con-
yersation upon pottery In hopes OF hear
ing something OF interest. Said the pro-
jector:
"The pottery business is the best in
the country to-day. and has been so
since the panic of 1873. There has been
money made at it and can be money
made at it to-day. 1t is the only bust
ness that has improved steadily since
| the panic"
Can sou explain this?
every readily. There is no overpro-
duction in it. Not one-iourth of the
ware used in this country is made here.
1t is imported, and the supply OF native
manufacture cannot equal the demand.
Why, it has only been recently that the
CLAW was sent from this country TO Eng
land, made up there and sent back, with
a good tariff 10 this country for con-
sumption and use. Latterlv clay has
been found over there, and the supply
| from here cut down"
"What are some of the other advan-
tages?" ....
Zone great one is that competition
only helps it along. A potter will tell
YOU 10 90 into the business and will
want YOU to make good ware. The
better stock you turn out, the more you
help him as well as yourself, by adj
vertising our home manufacture and en-
ouraging the buying of it in preference
10 imported stock. There can be no
| over production. There are four or
five potteries in Cincinnati. | was in
! one of them recently and there was not
n car load of stock in the house. Ii was
| shipped off as soon as manufactured.
Tn here at Liverpool are some twenty
seven potteries OF various classes
and they all have as much
work as they can manage and as
many orders as they can fill.
You can see their wharf and
depot always crowded with stock
10 he shipped away. Liverpool
is a thriving place and its people are
prosperous. They are all well-to-do; no
poor people there. The pottery bust
ness does it all"
Glow about establishing pottery in
Wheeling
at would pay well, but wants at
least S40,0 to start it. Sixty thousand
dollars would not be too much, and
would like to 90 in with 100000. II
one was started i'm five years there
would be ten. A number of young men
here want to put money in pottery
and have come to me with sums rang
ing from $500 TO $1,000. (He had moth
ing to say i'm relation to really starting
! One.)
GLOW about our advantages
"Wheeling has every advantage over
Liverpool. They have but one road
and We have three; the river there Is
sometimes too low to be available; here
it very seldom happens that there is toe
little water. Then there is the big dill
ference and advantage in our cheaper
labor. All the advantages in transpor
tation come in in shipping material here
as well as in shippingaway. And what
is more, | believe that one OF these days
West Virginia Will develope abundant
CLAW mines Yes, sir, there is not {
doubt that Wheeling is tine place for {
pottery.