Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-09-16
What Of the Proposed Iron Works :


Is i: GO: timo tia; cur citz,u1 we're bogia
Ing 10 tes:ir themselves il toe matter? Tim,
rolls CD, a3d while o:i!er cities atc laain. ad-
vautagc Ct the revival in trade. sha | We sii
doWa aud ql!etly lock %, aDt H4i; 70. thicgs
to :sil Into our laps?
Ga! sister city (Noli9!k) nil opsn Few
railroad 20 O,ean Fiaw this week. w;ila The
Messrs. Reynolds, extensive cotton merchants,
have made a!r1ngsmsG.l fJr !iae Of seven
steamers 10 Tun t@tWcen that city ard LiTcr.
pol. This looks liEc enterprise, aud it can
cot fail 20 bring c;h2r improvements il is
wake Let Ia initiate this example AID put &C
end t5 the everlasting cry So much INDUCED 10
By other cities that Alexandria is dead and
ready to be fenced ia
Let US therefore have tn, tl.s: .u,uac. BY
all meaSs. Oar capitalists can a!telG to that,
IS I6r3e means are i1vClre5, but LEI Us Ct the
same time 20. loso sight OF other Interests. Il
will take many months before the furnace can
be ready for operation after the needed capital
has beeo subscribed. Lat Us then in tho meat.
time start an enterprise for which the mach
inery is ready, las We learn) ard thus create G
homo market t1r cur lroD Fer lhtSI who
have seen the samples DOW o. exhibition ST the
s:Gro OF Messrs. L?ad5catcT l. Bro. will readily
admit that screws aud bolts oi such cyc3ltense
must fad ready market. So thai il will s5oo
become necessary to add mere machinery, md
10 few years erough iron will be consumed TO
keep an average s'Z,d rolling mill busy 10 sup
| PLY the demand, which mil! could be added to
| The turnsc, ha7log been 10 The meantime es.
tabshcd, thus masiGe it unnecessary to buy
any irol alryad. Al our cit:z,ss asrco upon
this, that or city has lost and l. s; lcsiGg her
| principal trade, aud that ncthiag tu. tic cs
| tabi:hneDt here OF factories can save der from
destruction; but mere talking viii not mead
| the meter Action is What is iuperstvafy
denaodtd. Let Us then put cur shoulders 10
| the whces aud cur ha1ds teci,l9 ia.o our peck.
cts, and S:art 10 enterprise which demands
| comparatively bu. sDali amount OF money 10
put il i1to operation. As the Gazette il i'm
ed US 90 las. Saturday experts have cxim.
in2d the samples u bolts and Screws placed
90 exhibition al L:aabesttr's store acd
| have pronounced ih9m 10 be Of superior quality.
| Now, rs wo gro told that thssG superior screws
| and bolts can be manufactured with great rapid.
| ly snd thereby Ca9 be- sold far baloW tho aver
! sae price, 1t stands 10 rta:on that they viii! be
| IL CREST demand, and IS their manufacture is
J projected by patent. so that no others but our.
selves Will have tho privilege Of making them,
! 1t IS easy enough to lo-eseo that i. Will be y
| ssta and veil paying invostHlon:, in which all
| cSn in without fear, mere so, e5 tho money So
| invested is to remain here, ard is 10 ho handled
! By Our own people, VINO will have the working
| OF Tho enterprise constantly before their eyes.
Blu. cno2Uh; lCt two or three OF our most liAnrml
and cI.t9TpElslng citizons constitute themselves o
committee for the purpose Of receiving subserin
| TONS. (stcr heading the list themselves by lib
era alacuntl and, 10 enable all to join, put the
| shares at g low figure. say fifty or twenty. live
dollars, aad By the display o.: ii:L'o cnorEy on
| thor p.rt. tho cn:!r2 amount will soon 10 sub
scIibed then Let tho stockholders hold 8 meet,
| ing elect atroasure7 and board CT directors and
the thing is Acn3. Tho machn:s AID superir.
| tendent Of the proposed works can then be sent
! Tor &H1 III 6 few shcr. weeks cu9 screw bolt
WORKS will &c 10 ful operation 10 tie lasting joy
| and profit OF i shareholders, and .Eo iJunda.
| ton for tho Improvement in tao financial con
d!tIon OF Cur city will have bsc2 laii. Onward
| irs5 ~ ru. Inc b4ll in motion?