Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15
MEMPHIS APPEAL
AN EXAMPLE FOB MEMPHIS.

fairs that has revived hope, strengthened
resolution, and aroused enterprise. Our
young business men are especially touched
by the more cheering influence. These
tired of the monotony OF mere me-
chanical plodding on with little to en-
courage and nothing to stimulate-are in
vigorated by the impulse Of living breath
that is now animsting our community, and
they are asking what they can do to bring
permanently brighter days, and generally
more active condition of affairs? Neglecling
those whose set ways and fixed opinions are
beyond the reach of modern grace, we with
to point out to the young, the ardent, those
with clear eyes and reasoning minds, the di-
rection 10 which effort should be made that
will build up Memphis into the important
commercial city that skill and well-directed
effort can make her. The secret Of securing
prosperity and future greatness lies in care
to make Memphis produce as much as posi-
bic OF what it consumes; as far as possible
TO invest the money in Memphis that is made
in Memphis; to invest surplus capital in
projects that will increase the business of the
city. This would bring population, and
population would build houses and increase
the value of Memphis property. How all
this is to be brought about in Memphis can
be best understood by understanding how
the above named principles Of business &C
lion have been carried out elsewhere. In
Alabama, 100 miles from Atlanta, with
which it has railroad connection, is a town
called Admission; it has population Of $500
people, factories, furnaces, shops, stores,
hotels, schoolhouses and churches. Ten
years ago the place was wilderness of
hill and forest. Samuel Noble, OF
English descent, discovered that a
mountain there was one mass of brown hem
attic iron. He bought 200 acres OF the land
which included it. There he and two more OF
Instantly, together with Gen. ID. FL. Tyler, put |
up furnace for making charcoal iron. The |
general and Samuel Noble were the managers, |
and they began and carried out the plan that |
has resulted 80 successfully. Every dollar |
the furnace made was put into improve
ments. Another furnace, mschine-;hops, a
cotton factory, stores and residences were |
built. No laua wss sold, no money was bor- |
rowed; but as fast as one piece of property |
brought money in, all the money was taken /
to pat up more property. In ten years the /
partners, who had put in capital OF $780,
900, were owners OF property 10 the amount |
of 100000. The first principle of action
was 10 put the earnings into the extension
oil the town; the second, to spend upon the
property what the property produced, not
ritter away profits by distributing them IS
dividends. The wood to build the houses
came off the property, was sawed and planed
and built up into houses by the company's
mills and workmen. Employed farmers
grew grain upon the land, ground it at the
mill on the spot, and SO supplied the towns
flour. The wagons that hauled the ore were
made OF the company's wood by its en-
ployes, and the limestone for fux was quar-
ried on the property by employed men. The
furnaces yield daily from $500 to $4,000 in
cash production. The engines on the works
were built by the MOBILES; the brick is made
IN the town, except lot from Atlanta before
the home kiln was large enough 10 supply
wants. Upon this system there was contin-
ually increasing inflow of money, with little
going out, and that little, relatively dimin.
ishiDg as the sources of home supply were
multiplied. The town was laid off under
one management, harmonious in the DISPOSE
lions Of its streets, its spaces tor public build
iugs, its parks aud squares. The ground was
thoroughly drained, good sanitary water was :
abundantly supplied. Not foot of land I
was cold, there were therefore no cIiques, no
conflicting interests 10 laying out the plans
and plots. The streets are all macsdamized,
curbed and guttered; shade trees are every
where, cemetery ia laid out, and the town
is beautiful, clean and healthy, and has rail-
roads leading to all the four qusrters. The |
dwellinghouses are commodious, aud each
has plot of ground; the furnaces, mills,
foundries and 30 on give abundant employ
ment, and wages are satisfactory to the peo-
pie, End are paid regularly. More furn aces
aud machine-shops are TO be started, and
cotton seed oil mill added, while more stores
and dwellings are continually going up, and
$4,000 hotel will soon be completed. The
foreman on the farm has twenty eight hands
under him, there are cattle and sheep for meat,
mules for the company's work, fodder and
grain crops are raised. A first-class butcher
was got from Philadelphia who kills and sup.
plies the meat required, all from home sup
plies; competent baker attends to the bread
stuff portion OF the supplies. Sogoes on every
thing; nothing is bought from a distance that
cin be proftably produced at home. In this
way everybody is employed; wat profit is
made is retained; work performed is paid for
by what the place produces, and the money
received in wages is spent where it is made.
Toll unstinted, wstchfulness unsleeping and
thought ever busy have been necessary TO
produce such wonder OF SUCCESS in ten
year,. But see how it has psidl What the
people could make they manufactured; what
the place could yield or grow was got from
nowhere else; what the property returned as
profit was spent upon the properly. This
concentration made everything prosper and |
everything pay, for when 1900 was earned
1t was set to work 10 earn another;
every dollar was productive. New Admission
has received It's shape, and all is going
satisfactorily according to the proprietor's
designs, the partners are about 10 sell prop
erly freely, offering special inducements 10
people of enterprise and mechanical skill. |
The property has been kept in the original |
hands in order that one head should manage
each department, 30 that all should be
adapted for its end, and that the primary
idea OF concentrating on the spot what was
earned upon it should be fully carried out.
These main ideas are stamped into the very
building OF the place, and now the minds OF |
the residents are imbued with the system the |
place has aourished by, the public generally
can come in, and if they choose flourish with |
the rest. The same plan will make any |
fairly situated town flourish, and the same
plan in principle would in less than ten years
transform Memphis; to-day capital earned
10 Memphis is sent elsewhere to be employed,
and strangers, not citizens, profit by its
earnings.
INCREASE OF POLYGAMH.
Is religion matter of principle, or a mere
heaven-soaripg, kite-6ying impulse, that
people catch once in way as they catch
bad cold or an attack uf prickly heat2 We |
ask this becauae somathiny that To dav Ia an