The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-02-18
BURNING DAYLIGHT.
Opportunities which Waco Il
NOI Fully Improving.

We notice through our exchanges,
letters to papers published in other
I states, and from contact with men who
visit Waco from other places, that all of
the larger cities of the state are making
more or less progress in building up
manufacturing industries. Some of
! them have extensive ones already
built, and others have large pro-
iects on foot. This important
matter has been neglected in Waco
! lately, and 1t IS all the more serious from
the fact that we all know manufacturers
are second to no other adjunct to natural
advantages and live, thrifty people in
! building up a substantial city. Waco,
with its present population, the wealth
centered in other business, three rail
| roads, abundant water and fuel for steam
purposes, cheap transportation on for
/ eign coal and material, and coal beds
! opening up should be able to call into
| life quite a number of manufacturing in
! dustrles with her own capital and induce
| foreign capital to be invested here.
/ Because we have cotton factory in full
blast employing fifty operatives,
/ cotton seed oil mill, rotary pillow factory,
carriage manufactures, stirrup and ice
/ factories, and few other smaller ones,
is no reason that we should stop seeking
more. In the fact that all run CON
stantly and have proved paying invest
ments, we find the best argument for
building more with our own capital
and presenting our advantages III such
manner az TO convince men of means
outside the state that there is here an
opening that will pay them largely The
man with ready cash in the northwest
loans it ont at six and eight per cent
per year, when, with few thousand dol
lars invested in manufacturing here, he
could realize from twelve to twenty per
cent on it. Some one of what are now
the principal cities Of the state will ere
long become the manufacturing cen ter
for tIe state and be known as SUCH Just
as Rockford and Moline are in Illinois,
Racine ard Whitewater in Wisconsin,,
Jackson in Michigan. and Davenport in
Iowa, and the city OF Texas which
becomes such will ! few years out
strip all others and he Independent OF
them. Look at any manufacturing city
in the north-ALlanta notable instance
hear home, 1t attracts sale for its goods
from all over the nn'on, and has trade
established that caLnot be taken away
from it. Waco has many advantages
over its neighbors for manufac-
lures, some OF them enumerated
above and besides which the health is
unsurpassed in the south, cheap homes
for operators can be secured, the city
is located IN the center of the state and
has cheap and rapid transformation out
lets to ali parts of the union. Schools,
churches and society the very best in
the state are marked features, and our
population is made up of people from
every safe IN the union, each learn
ing from the other, and with ex-
perience added daily, emulating
the more thrifty aud pushing.
know; ~ the value of manufactures and
the efforts that other places are making
to establish all they can, it behooves
Waco to do all possible to keep pace
with, if she does not keep abreast of her |
rivals, and this can only be done by
individual and combined effort of home
capital, and a never-relaXing urging of
the advantages that awaits those who
wish to dis Dos = their surplus means
Where it viii retuI ! t. EN- large dividends
at the smallest risk.