The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-06

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The South Bend tInd) Evening Roaister.l
A Register reporter interviewed Mr..
Leighton Pine, manager of the Singer
works in this city, WHO has just returned
from Cairo, H., and from him learned the
following facts regarding the new enterprise
of his company now in progress Mt Caro-:
The enormous increase in the Singer
company's business having created de-
mand for cabinet work far beyond the ca.
pacty of the South Bend works to supply,
the extension Of the works here or erection
of new works at some point nearer the tim
Der supply, became a necessity. The latter
course has been decided on, and Cairo Sc
lected as the site for the new factory. At
ter careful examination of a number of
other points in the southwest, Cairo vas
found to possess marked advantages over
every other point visited, and was selected
10y the Singer company as the location OF
their new cabinet works.
Among the advantages of this point are:
lst. Lumber can be RATED 70 the door Of
the factory via the Tennessee, Cumberland,
Ohio Mississippi and Missouri rivers and
their tributaries, at a saving Of about ten
dollars per thousand feet over present cost
of freight to South Bend.
2ud. Some of the most important cen
tres Of the Singer company's trade, such as
st. Louis Kansas City, New Orleans, Gin
cinnati, Pittsburg and other points, can re.
ceiye finished work by river from Cairo.
The Elizabethport factory, which takes one
quarter of the product Of the South Bend
works can be supplied by river to Pitts
burg thence by rail into the companys
yards at Elizabethport. Boston, Philadel-
phia and other eastern depots can be sup.
piled by the same route, or by steamer via
New Orleans
3D.. Eight railroads enter at Cairo, diverg.
ing east, south and west, securing addition
al facilities for obtaining lumber and other
supplies at low rates, besides giving the
city unusual advantages as distributing
point II desired, finished work can be
shipped east, all rail, at much lower rates
than from South Bend, owing TO the com
petition IN rail ircights. The immense
quantity Of hardware and trimmings re-
quircd by the Singer company can be laid
down IN Cairo from the East cheaper than
in South Bend. Last but not least the
enormous quantity Of cabinet work de
manded by the European trade can be ship
ped by water via New Orleans, and laid
down at the company's Glasgow factory
at which all machines for the European
| trade are mado-as cheap as they can now
! be sent from South Bend 10 the American
coast.
Immense tracts of hardwood timber sur
round the city in all directions and thu
Singer company has already secured coptro
of the timber on tract Of eighteen square
miles, all of which can be delivered by
wagon at the works-the longest haul not
exceeding six miles.
The Singer factory have secured a factory
site OF twenty.four acres, including valu
able river tront--and is one of five corpora
tons owning all the river front surrounding
Cairo on both rivers and has now II
course of erection to be fin
ished by September 14th one
brick building s0xG5, stories, another
| 100x70, another SOFAS. These are to DC
used only for cutting their lumber and glue
it into form, the motive power being a
double-clyndcr engine and four Babcock 4
Wilcox sectional boilers of IS horsepower
each.
The cabinet works proper will consist Of
five buildings, each 30 500 feet, 3 stories