The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-08-07
A Foundry and Machine Shop.
WORD TO OUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

confidence of our whole people have
proposed that in the event the Coun
ty OF Monroe and City of Aberdeen
will agree to exempt the establish
ment from taxation for period Of
ten years, to at once erect foundry
and machine shop in our town.
The city, which by the way pays a
large proportion of the county taxes
in addition to her own, and is daily
increasing her tax bearing resources,
is ready and anxious to make this
concession, but the Board of Super
visors halts. To these gentlemen we
would say that the county is rapidly
filing up with machinery-not a
month passes that does not witness
the addition of at least one steam
engine to our mechanical "plant. "
We are starting new grist mills, new
saw mills, new brick machines, etc,
to be run by steam, and every large
plantation on the prairie has either
put up an engine at its gin house OF
is making arrangements to that end.
! Most of the engines on the farms are
run by men who are anything but
! experts, and the result is that the
proportion of accidents and repairs
is twice as great as in the cities and
towns, necessitating the sending off of
bulky pieces by express to foundries
elsewhere at heavy outlay, involving
great inconvenience aud loss of time.
Before the war we had as fine ma
chine shop and foundry in this city
as the State could boast, but like
other manufacturing establishments
it was destroyed during that conflict,
and its proprietors impoverished and
employees scattered. Since then the
demand for one has been daily felt,
and is now becoming an absolute
necessity, and the question simply is
as to whether when so many other
enterprises OF vast advantage to city
and county are demanding attention,
it is wiser to offer a reasonable bonus
to strangers to bring their capital
and energies to our aid, or divert the
money to this purpose that is needed
for other industrial and progressive
schemes.
In granting this exemption the
county does not lose anything she
now possesses, but simply invites an
industry that will add to the value
of all the rest of her taxable property
and particularly her mechanical
property by decreasing it's burdens
Then it must be remembered that
the mere outfit of the proposed es
Establishment represents but a small
proportion of it's actual contribution
to the wealth of the ty: II
brings many skilled mechanics to us
who must have houses to live in
country produce to subsist upon, and
goods of all descriptions for veal
and maintainence, all of these thing
being wealth producers and revenue
breeders for city, county and State
Then the presence of such an es-
Enlistment encourages and stimu
lates inves tment in engines and ma
chinery, and every engine or othe
mechanism that goes from its door,
enters upon tax paying mission
The taxable products of this estab
lisament in single year woul'
amount to far more than the valu
of the entire "plant' that asks ex
emption, and would every year in
crease in heavy ratio until in all likli
, hood they would ere the lapse of th
period of exemption, pay annual.
more taxes to city and county re-
spectively, than the original value o
, the exempt property. To illustrat
this, we have but to cite the instanc
of the foundry and machine shop q
Corinth that started few years ag
with less than five thousand dollar
of capital, and is now selling ia
more than hundred thousand dol
lars worth of engines and boilers
$ their make, annually, in addition t
other machinery and doing an i'm
! mense repair business.
, The policy Of giving bonus to in
dustrial establishments in the shap
. of money or exemption has long pre-
vailed throughout the Eastern an
Western States, and to this wise sys
: tenn those regions mainly owe the
great manufacturing supremacy, an
it is to be hoped that penny wiz
o policy will not be forced upon th
u people by our Board of Supervisor
that will compel our local capital
n do double duty, and in every wa
:. serve as a clog to the wheels OF prt
s gress
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