The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-01
OUR MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
An Argus Reporter Interviews DIR. C.
b. Dickson, Familiarity Known
to the National Press as
TTarchi COnah."

In speaking to one of the reporters of
the ARGUS, DR.. G. B. Dickson whose
name as a manufacturer has already APP
peared 10 the Rock Island Union re-
marked that it is fatal mistake that men
of capital often make, that manufactures
costing large capital to establish pay the
best. He says that if twice one makes
eight their proposition would be correct,
but as it only makes two, the inference is
very easily drawn from problem that he
will make and solve, which is as follows:
Robt. Brown has twenty thousand dollars
to invest and from peculiar matter of
taste and spirit to appear in a gigantic
enterprise, he invests his money in a silk
or cotton mill costing two millions to es-
tablsh and maintain in moving condition,
which he will consider pays net of ten
per cent, and Thomas Jones has ten
thousand dollars to invest in small enter
prises, say five in number, paying only
the moderate net each OF five per cent
He claims that Thomas Jones realizes the
most money provided that these enter
prises are thoroughly and Systematically
based and the manufactures are such as
meet with ready and permanent sale
Yet withal. these mistakes often occur,
and men fail TO see them until it is too
late, and another golden opportunity is
lost. These reflections should be patent
to every man who has capital. In an
other eXpreasion'he says that he will
make that quick siXpence is better in
the long run than slow shilling, and Il
man who deals on the principles of quick
sales and small profits is oftencr
more certain Of permanent sue
cess that man who deals on
large profits and slow sales He says
that these propositions are designed to
the pound and no mistake, and that his
judgment is not at all at variance with
them now for the cream that butter can
be made There are two cities Rock
Island and Moline each city having the
capital, now why cannot each city join
and form company of fifty in each, and
place these factories between the corpora
ton limits of each, thus improving the
real estate and employing persons from
both, or otherwise as company when
organized might for its interest determine.
He says that the plan for these factories
is seventy two feet at least in length, and
twenty four in height and width, repre-
senting cubes and their roofs to be fiat
and their fronts to be adorned With a
coat of arms supported on three columns
composed of gothic arch ornamented by
an American eagle, perhaps of glass, and
circle or rim of filagree open work in
brass adorned with varied shades OF
colored glass alternately, and enclosing a
plate circle of rich blue for a canopy,
excepting in the center of which he design
a sixteen inch circle, in which his name
will be inserted, surrounded by the stars
of the union and some of the territories as
they are admitted. The large circle rep
resenting the colors of the rainbow and
the name of the manufacturing company
in gilt letters when established, etc.
This sign is pronounced beauty to be
adorned. One president and vice presi
dent can manage all, as one manufacturer
with two assistants can manufacture all
laborers in them not taken under these
considerations