Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-01-29

oalHc IOCdIloIl IOI many NCais. HCit
is scarcely village anywhere that
has. .nOt what it calls carriage shop,
where vehicles that pass for buggies,
&c, are made, but in the establish
ment to which we here allude as fine
work is turned out as can be pro-
cured in any city in the east. Messrs.
Card. of ST. Louis, Rogers, of Phila-
delphia, or any of the leading manu-
facturers of the country might feel
proud of some of the jobs made by
them. They use the very best of ma
terlal i'll all departments, and 1T is no
unusual thing to see i'll his shops for
repair buggies that he made fifteen
or sixteen years ago, which have been
in constant service ever since. and
which with little expense are given
a new lease of life. Persons some
times complain that these shops
charge 20 to 25 per cent. more for his
work than eastern jobs of the same
description can be bought for. They
have only to purchase one eastern
job, as the writer did once some years
ago, TO find that il would have been
genuine economy to have paid 80 per
cent more for home made job.
Eastern carriage work made for sale
i'll the west is made TO sell cheap, 1t is
consequently cheaply made, aud paint
is made to hide a hundred flaws and
defects which left naked to view
would condemn the work. Our man
ufacturers use but the best material,
asiit is to their interest SO to do, as
their customers are near them, and
as every good job is favorable and
every bad one an uufavorable adver-
tisement. If they promise you Sar-
ven wheels. best tempered springs
and aaxles, they use them.. and the
Sarven wheel has the rivets in the
fellOes OH each side of every spoke,
the springs are not only the best in
the shop, but the best that can be
procured for money, and the axles
the same. So that while their paint
may not surpass that of eastern
makers, it covers more substantial
and better work. Lexington buggies
are used all over the western part OF
the state, and whenever a person uses
one they never buy elsewhere if they
can help it. We look for this branch
Of business t6fgrow and flourish with
the improved times and in the course
|. of few years to. bs one OF The lead
ing industries of our town, extend
ing its sales into northern Missouri
and Kansas, through ST. Joseph, Kan
sas CITY, Leavenworth, Atchlson,
and ether cities.
sl1 'o 5-oWAGoNS. eai
|, Self preservation is said to be the
first law of nature, and while as ap-
piled to life tins, principal is SO gen
orally Recognized as to have grown
into a maxim, it is really singular
how i'll the materixl inturests of a COM
munity it is absolutely, lost sight Of.
Tens of thousands of dollars annual
ly go out of the county for agricul-
tural + meclih,ery and imple meiIis
which should be made at home. That
they are not.so made is to some de-
gree the fault of the purchaser. There
are in Lexington several manufacture
ing establishments, aud while it is
generally conceded that manufacture
ing is needed in the county to advance
the general interest, still, gentlemen
already engaged in it have right to
complain, to some extent, thai thry
are not properly encouraged-do not
have the same chances offered them
as do outside makers in the same line.
This is especially the case in regard
TO wagons. Nine men in ten who
come to town to buy a wagon 90 di
rectiy the agricultural warehouse,
and never think OF calling on our own
shops. We frequently take OCCASION
to examine the wagons made i'm this
city by Mr.. JAS. p. Hall, Mr.. John
Quandt, and Messrs. Nicholson &
Bartels, and we observe their work
before it is painted, which is the
proper time to see just what kind of
material is used, and we can safely
say that these gentlemen can very
easily demonstrate to anyone that
their hand maze work is superjor in
almost every respect to the machine
made wagons imported hese, and sold
at as high price as they ask Though
this is the case there are probably
twenty foreign built wagons sold to
one homemade, and this, principally,
from the fact that purchasers do nut
give our own makers a fair chance q
show work. When you buy foreig (,
wagon, the only money W hi ch remains
in the community is the dealers
profit. When You purchase home
made wagon your money goes-tirst
the profit tOthe maker, wages 10
hahds and price! of timber, To citizens
OF fyoIrown ncounty-and second back
TO yourselves, as these persons are all
your customers fer wheat, oats, corn,
tobacco aud provisions. As we un-
derstand itsene of the principal OBJ
lects OF, the combination. of farmers
IN oranges and, societies is to make
war on high freiglits, unnecessary mid
dIemen, who'HselessIy tax commerce.
ana TO bring producer aud consumer
closer together Than they have been
In the past. How can they do this
more eftec.ualIy than bv increasing
the numoer OF consumers in their inn
mediate vicinity. Properlyencourag-
ed, where there is now one man ell
gagged i'll wagon making in Lexina-
ton, there might be fifty. These ali
dltlonal mechanics, with their fami
lies, weuldhaye to come from abroad,
their money would be spent here for
the necessaries of life, which are
principally supplied by the farmer.
Inc amount OF work which can be
done by fifty skilled 7workmeu aided
oF the latest Improved machinery, is
very great, and shipped in various di.
rections from Lexington would do n
great deal to advertise our town aud
lsection, and bring immigration into
our midst. If an enterprise in this
direction succeeded, it would be an
invitation to others, and soon the
busy hum of industry would replace
i'll many Of our quiet localities TIE
unhealthy stiffness which now pre-
walls. There is one fact which we
can not too strongly impress upon
the MINDS OF our people, aud that is
that the Interests OF the Gown and
county are identical: While it is true
that the town profits more from the
country than does the. country from
The town, still the town is NECESSARY
to the comfort ard welfare of the
country. AS now the fact that our
population of four, thousand enables
US 10 nave many manufacturing en-
terprises which villages cannot have.
aud to have classified assortmeuts of
merchahdlse. which will l,ges are not
enabled to do. SO would the advau-
tages be proportionatcly Increased to
the producers of the county were the
population of Lexington increased.
LII Lexington contained ten instead
or tour Thousand Inhabitants, it would
be better market for all the surplus
butter, eggs, fowls and the hundred
llttie etccteras which can be made and
saved about farm, aud would con-
sumo an immense amount of the az
rlcultural staples. Ten thousand peo.
pie eat great deal, and we want to