Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-01
OUR MANUFACTURES
The Growing and the Most Promising
Industries of the City Make Ex-
hibits for the Year OF which
All Engaged in Them May Feel Espe-
ciaIIy PrOud-EleTen States Com
pete for What We Make,
Proving that This is the Distributing
= Point for a Wide Extent of COuntrys
and that Our Manufactures,
Notwithstanding the Want OF Hearty
Home Encouragement. Rest Upon
Basis of Solid Security.

WE present to-day the most extensive ex-
position Of the manufacturing condition OF
Memphis that has ever been published.
Numerous as the details are we present, the
whole is but Specimen brick" so extensive
have Memphis manufactures become We
bv no means name all the manufactories
here, rarely all in any given line OF business
Few of the specimens We give are selected;
most of them we're taken hap-hazsrd or as
most ready of access. 10 gathering the par
ticulars here given large number OF lndI-
viduas were conyersed with, and the result
is the assurance that in Memphis, at this
moment, there is more interest ieit IN man
ufactures, and more appreciation Oh tnei
absolute necessity for the cItys prosperity
than ever existed before. 1t IS well under
stood that the trade Of the city IS not safe
call hung on one string" even though
il be cotton string. The glimpse We
have here a; the number Of workmen en-
ployed, and occasionally at the amount OF
weekly pay-rolls, shows how much money is
once circulate what they get. The iDforma-
tion given below shows how wide market
exists for the wares Memphis may manufac-
ture, owing to her great advantages as DIS
tributing point-sdSantages that will soon
be greatly increased. Besides our own and
the adjoining States-Mississippi Arkansas
and AIabama-Louisians,T Texas, Keatucky,
Missouri, North and South Carolina and Viz
ginia appear as customers Tor Memphis
made goods. 1t is rather curious 10 notice
that Georgia is not among the number Of
our patrons in the manufacturing May-AL
.aast the only dissatisfass:Un heard expressed
in gathering these details was, that many Of
our own merchants are remiss in encourage
ing our home manufacturers. Why should
they go to Cincinnati for brooms, or to St.
Louis for cornmeal, when Just as good and
as cheap can be had at our own millS and
shops? The assertion is almost universal
among our manufactures that they can COM
pete in quality and price with other cities.
IL is striking to find St. Louis sending TO
Memphis for wooden boxes, and New
Orleans and New York for Memphis
made suits of clothing. These facts
show US that manufactures in Memphis are
laid on a sure foundations; that the city has
only to produce manufactured articles odd
secure for them a name for goodness of quail
ity, and there is no bounds to the amount of
business we can do. Those who have be-
come aware of what Memphis has within
her grasp as manufacturing city, know
they are on the direct road to fortune in en-
barking in those sort of enterprises, and this
is the secret of the turn of popular feeling
toward mauuf curing businesses.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Gradually of late years the demand for
improved agricultural implements has in
creased around us. This demand has mostly
been supplied from distant manufactures
but in our own city steps have been taking
to supply some of the wanted implements by
articles of home make. Ellis & Sons, of No
439 Shelby, who do steamboat and general
iron work, are also engaged in making vari-
Gus agricultural Implements. They use up
seventy tons OF IRON year, employing at
present eight hands. Under the circum-
stances business during the year has been
satisfactory, and the outlook for the coming
year Is still more 20.
BEER BREWERY.
The aaO "a CR DuIIdfmS &C the loot OF lem
Brewing Company, the quality of whose beer
is strongly vouched for by those competent
to Judge. The premises are extensive, and |
are supplied with the most improved ap- |
tparatus and excellent storage. Malt is OBJ |
tanned from st. Louis and Chicago, and hops |
mainly from Utica, in New York. The brew
cry during the season employs twenty five
hands, and has capacity to supply 10000
barrels year. Customers are Numerous in
Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, for
both bottled and keg beer.
BLANK BOOKS.
A larger business is done in the m Manufacture
of blank books in this city than anywhere
else in the South. The demand for them is
large from West Tennessee, North Missis-
sippi, North Alabama, Arkansas and Texas,
and orders are numerous from Virginia and
Louisiana. Two Memphis houses are en-
gagged in this trade-Messrs. S. c. Toof &
Co., Is Court street, and Jones, HUM & Co,
II Jefferson street. During the last year
they have together employed seventy hands
The business has been larger this than the
previous year, and from the increase of rail-
roads, factories and other business concerns
the prospect for the coming year is unusu
ally good.
BOILER. MAKING.
R. Lewis & Co., foot of Adams, and Law ,
less & Co., Front street above Exchange, are
doing an active business in making boilers, /
and all kinds of steamboat IRON $
work, tanks and plantation articles. The I
wo concerns use 5000 tons OF iron year, and !
ever buster places TO be found than I
heir shops. They have gained good repu $
alton Tor Memphis Ironwork OF the above s
description, which secures ample orders from a
he ports and towns along the rivers here | a
md in the neighboring States, giving en-
oloyment to eighty workmen. Business is g
already becoming active. One house has | \
orders already on hand that will keep it busy o
Tor three months n
BROOMS. fl
There are two broom manufactures in the q
city, and homemade Memphis brcoms are
now kept in stock by more than half our 3
merchants. That all do not help TO push Il
homemade article in preference to brooms II
from 81. Louis and elsewhere Is to be re- I a
GREETED, as they are as good and as cheap as o
,an be got anywhere. j. A. Cameron, No. |
Howards Row, and Robert Elliott, No. $40 Il
Main street, put out 100 dozen brooms a p
month, and employ twenty workmen. Be-
ides largely supplying this city, Little Rock.
Pine Bluff and other places in Arkansas and n
'orth Mississippi are customers. Plenty of "
ne Southern broom corn is grown accessi- a
lie to this city. The demand for Memphis n
nade brooms is increasing, business the past Ii
ear has been and i
he prospect for next year is encouraging. r
CRACKERS. Is
Messrs. J. I. Frost & Co., 375 Main street
ave just completed large brick cracker
the machinery for which ia | N
ow putting up. All kinds of crackers and a
axes will be made and baked; there will be 81
apacity to use 100 barrels of flour a day. At
18th employment for thirty-fve TO Fifty ] ri
erkmen. This is an important addition 10 "
lie manufactures of Memphis, and in quail ii
y and price it will readily compete with | c
ncinnati and St Louis. h
CLOTHING. pl
There are several firms in the CITY that u
anufaeture pants. H. Morris & Bro, SOC Oh
lain street, are turning out whole suits of Id
ans clothing, giving employment to 125 "
omen. So extensive is the output of this
m that they are supplying dealers in Ten
sssee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and | fa
sxas. On the day OF our call an applica- en-
On which we saw, from large house in do
ew York, asked for samples, and orders in
e frequently received from St Louis. In
ice the larger cities are readily competed
IT'D, and the quality is such as to excite at
nlion in the trade wherever the goods are n'
Town. This shows the adaptation of Mem an
lis for general manufacturing. ne
COOPERING. &,
The Cooperage Company, corner of Front col
d Sycamore streets, is on the eve of COM ha
sncing business, Its premises having lust OPP
en- completed by the builder. Thew ex inv
I'D $50 feet by 145 feet and are furnished with
" machinery Of the most improved.snake. XII
Iis will be an important Manufacture. and
II fill want long felt in Memphis. AN 7
lds of coopering work will be done, barrels fac
. whisky, -four, molasses. potatoes. etc. ma
e works will have capacity to make 400 TO bnc
tight barrels daily and 800 -four barrels | tnb
1 will employ about $50 workmen. NJ
]. Reed; OF Causey street, is also supplyino ~ns
increasing demand for home m sde COON g., -
ge. He employs seven hands, and finds Gin
ong merchants a fair demand for his oar.
res, several of whom ship them to yarious Ka,
,ts of the surrounding territory. ests
CANDIES. of Il
everal OF our large confectioners manu. of b
ure a large part Of the candies dealt in. wire
J. T. Frost & Co., 377 Shelby street, have seve
rye manufactorY entirely deyoted To that due