The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-21
IMPORTANT REAL ESTATE I'M
PROVEMENTS.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING co.

has been making preparations for some ex'
tenslve buildings to be commenced on the
company's premises in the early part Of
spring. Large quantities of sand and other
material is being stored upon the ground
ready for use when the signal to start is
given. Yesterday Mr.. Leighton Pine,
superintendent of the company, arrived in
the city, and from him we learn that the
company thinks to erect next spring sew
eral additional buildings, one of which is
to be Of large dimensions. The details have
not yet been finally determined, but they
will be as soon as Mr.. Mckenzie
arrives. Mr.. Mckenzie came owe
from Europe and landed in New York city
yesterday, and after visiting the various
works of the company east of us, he will be
here during the first week of December.
SO far as now known, the main building
will be a substantial brick structure, two
hundred feet long, sixty feet wide and
three stories high. This building is to be
furnished with machinery from the base
ment to the top floor, for the purpose Of
supplying the company with tables for It's
sewing machines. This addition to the
factory here, as il now is, will increase its
capacity to Just about double what il is
now. At present the factory turns out
two thousand Italics every day, so that it
will then turn out twenty-four thousand
tables per week.
The other buildings will be also OF brick
and much smaller comprising engine room,
etc. The company has already had con-
structed Coriss engine of unusual size
and power, which will take the place of the
engine now in use and run the machinery
in all the buildings.
The South Bend works of the company
are also constantly in full operation, turn
ing out from forty thousand to forty-fye
thousand pieces of cabinet work of differ
e1t kinds per day. But these two extensive
establishments together failed to supply the
| number OF tables needed by the company
To meet the great demand from all over the
world for Singer sewing machines and last
year the company was compelled TO con-
tract with parties IN St Louis to furnish
additional tables. But now the company
is about TO increase It's capacity for manu-
featuring tables 10 such an extent as to en-
able them to meet any increased dem and
| for their machines, and the fact that it con
templates making this increase OF capacity
in the works here, instead Of at South
Bend, is certainly significant. The com.
pany has had its works in operation here
for several years now, during which period
Cairo has not been at its best, having had
to contend with several extraordinary
foods in quick succession, which bad nc
parallel in the history of these rivers. IT.
representative men have become thoroughly
acquainted with Cairo at its worst, ant
this worst" did not prove to be near al
bad as was the condition Of many Of hel
sister cities on the rivers. They know
every unfavorable circumstance with which
they have to contend, and have certainly
gwen every point, pro and con, its full
weight. The fact that after all this, suci
shrewd business men as are at the head o.
a corporation of the magnitude of the SINCE
company and successfully manage It's busl
ness, are inclined to give Cairo the prefer
ence when it comes to investing thousand
of the Corporations money - this fac
ought certainly to weigh heavily in Cairo
favor, even in the minds Of those who arr
strongly prejudiced against her,
Thc Singer company is also making YER
extensive additions to its works elsew here
and establishing new ones, both in this anc
10 the Old world. At Montreal, Canada
factory has been recently established
that is to supply the Canada trade exclu
svely, with capacity for five hundred
: complete machines every week. At Xii
| bowie, Scotland, near Glasgow, another
, now being built that covers forty -eigh
, acres, and will have capacity for produc
ing nine thousand complete machines pc
: week. Still another large factory is to b
put up at Vienna, Austria During las
year the company sold upwards of six hun
dred and fifty thousand machines, bein
more than three-fourths Of all the sewln
machines sold in the world during tn
. year. BY the side of the several grand in
stitutons of the company elsewhere, tn
,, works here are very insignificant, but 70
this part of the country they are of NOR
, than ordinary Importance, and their en-
=. largement will be looked forward to wit
much interest by our people.
J.. Mark Twain's ROughing It.
LEADvILLE, CoLo.-The Chronicle says
: Of all the hardships and privations endure