Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-27
ENCOURAGE nfANUFACTUREs.

The business of New Orleans consists prin- cipally of the receipt, storage. export and dis tribution of the cattle, tobacco and grain of the South and West. Some of the capitalists and merchants of the city think that more manufacturing might be done there to the advantage of all concerned, and the Chamber of Commerce recently appointed committee to examine the subject of manufactures and the profits aecruing therefrom, as well as the effect which these industries would have upon the growth and wealth of city like New Orleans. This committee has made its re- port, and 1t gives some facts well worth the attention of the people of any city.
 The committee points out that while cities dependent transit trade have suffered from the change of channel or the reduction the mixed industries and investments have grown with steadiness and rapidity The reason for the superior capacity of these in dustries to subsist large numbers of people consists in the fact that they employ both sexes and almost all ages, while crop factor age employs but fixed proportion of male adults for period less than the whole year, and at a comparatively low rate of compensa- tion for the skill or labor employed. In the first case two and a half persons out of five contribute their earnings to the subsistence of all, while in the second the labor of one person out of. five must subsist them all dur ing the whole year. The profits upon the large local capital invested in mixed indus tries tend to increase the values of taxable property.
 Milwaukee and Fall River are chosen as examples of cities which have encouraged the establishment of manufacturing interests, though not neglecting their other opportuni- ties as convenient depots for trade The grain trade of Milwaukee is hardly larger now than in 1863, and there has been no great increase in it's pork and beef packing, nor in its wholesale and retail trade with the surrounding country. The population and wealth of Milwaukee have grown step by step with its manufactures It has doubled the first in fourteen years and quintupled the second in the same period. SIX thousand people make shoes as many more make clothing 5000 are manufacturing to- baceo and 4,50O are workers in iron It's flour mills are more numerous and of greater capacity than those of any other city in America; the same may be said Of it's brew cries. For these and other industries it pos sesses the needed agencies of money, coal, food and water power in abundance.
 As regards Fall River another comparison is instituted. In 1877 New Orleans received 1,300, ,0OO bales of cotton. The profit on this, divided between the factor the drayman the warehouseman and capitalist, was about $6,- 500,000. Fall River, Mass, used the same year 130, 900 bales in its manufactories, yield ing value of Ss2O, 23O, ,OOO The product of this manufacture 311 per cent. over that of factorage. The mills of Fall River in creased in ten years (from 1867 to 1S77) from b to 36; it's number of spindles from 241,- 900 to $1, ,280, 900; it's capital invested from $3, 750, 900 to $2O, 375, ,OO0 it's cloth made from 3o,0Oo, ,0O0 yards to 33O, ,oo0, GOO yards; it's operatives employed from 2,654 to 11,514 it's population from r, 800 to 46 GOO. These figures show that upon a capital of $2O,375, 900 Fall River produced a value of $2O, 23O, 900, gross profit of 96 per cent. From this gross profit the expense account deducted was chiefly composed of wages, so that the immense ad- dition to the value of the raw cotton accrued to the community in which the change from raw to manufactured material was made. The population of Fall River is little more than one-tifth that of New Orleans, and yet it's taxable values are more than one half great
 The moral of these instructive facts, for New Haven as well as for New Orleans, is :. Encourage manufactures. A manufacturing establishment like that of Sargent & Go. in this city, for instance, is worth more to a city than a large number of commission merchants, useful and indispensable as the latter are