The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1883-11-17
DTSTRIAI PROJECTS.
Hints of Industries that Would be
Profitable in Wake County.
Prepared for The Chronicle.

a cotton compress in Raleigh has been
discussed for a number Of years, and very
shrewd business men who have, money have
made calculations about il and have given
up the plan. But sufficient reasons for
their abandonment Of it have never been
given. There is on the other hand every
reason TO believe that it would be profitable
Suppose, for instance, there were only
40 900 or 80 600 bales that could be brought
TO Raleigh to be COMPRESSED (aDd 100 600
could be brought, believel Al 30 cents
per bae-the usual price-tnese would
yield $50, 000 or $25, 000 year. The eX-
pense of running the machinery is not
great. The expense OF buying and putting
1t up Of course is very great. but by no
means so great that even $40, 900 net per
year would not be magnificent dividend
1t would do more To build mp the declining
cotton market of Raleigh than anything
else that could be done,
COTTON SEED OIIrMILL.
And cotton seed oil-mill in Raleigh
would pay. The manufacture of oil and
cake from the seed is becoming an industry
in the great cotton States of gigantic pro-
portions; and that it is profitable, is proved
by the continual increase in the number OF
mills and in the increased capacity of the
older ones. Cotton seed are cheap here.
AID there is an unlimited demand for the
cake and the oil. The machinery would
yield good dividends.
WOODWORKING ESTABLISHMENTS.
There is no room for more wood working
machinery of the usual kind The now
almost historical establishment of the
Brlggses, the works of Ellington, Royster
& Co., and others in Raleigh and the shops
Of w. M Jones at Cary indicate that the
demand for such work as sash, doors and
blinds can be easily supplied. There are
many other wood working establishments,
which, however, it is not the purpose of
this article to mention. A new industry
for Wake county, however, is the estab-
lishment in Raleigh of a shuttle and bobbin
factory and Of the establishment at Cary of
similar manufactory, by the Cary Shuttle
Co. But there is nothing more beautiful in
all the range of woods than the curled pine
for ornamental work. 1t is the ''craze"
now in the Northern market, and fine
houses are finished and furnished with it at
great cost. But the lumber is shipped from
our forests IN the rough and freight is paid
on all the waste. 1t is simply proposition
of common sense, that, if hne work were
done here where the material is cheap, it
would be profitable. Wood -carvers (who
are really artsts) and the delicate machi-
merry by which the very finest wood work is
made ought to be brought here.
A DAIRY.
The people Of Raleigh eat butter and
oleomargarine. They ought to eat only but
ter, and only good butter at that. The
market is supplied with butter from the
North, from the West and from the country
good, bad and worse. There are few
old ladies who live within reach of the city
whose butter is always bought at higher
price than any other, because whatever
comes from their hands is trustworthy. A
dairy within reach of Raleigh would be a
profitable business, and would cost com
paratively little.
There are hundreds of other neglected
industries which it is we'll to talk about.tO
our numerous visitors from the North who
are giving us the pleasure OF their presence