The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-17
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS.

| The Manufacture of q New Gun--AIsO q
| Superior Lock nventiOn--Still Another
Established Business to Employ from zoe
to 400 Men.
w NJ Farrow, Of Springfield, Mass, we'll.
known in the rifle trade, aud for years the
travelling representative OF the Bclknap gun,
has been in town this week showing our people
the merits Of his newly invented gun, for which
| he obtained a patent about year ago. He has
| several strong friends among our rifemen, and
| they are SO much interested In his invention,
and believe SO fully In 1t, that they induced him
can be raised, though he has good opportuni-
ties to go to any one Of several other places.
| Every one OF our riflemen says 1t Is unquestOn-
ably the best gun made, and 1t can be manufac-
tured cheaper than any Of the Others, SO that 1t
certainly seems as II the outlook Is as good as
| it can be for any new thing. The gun has only
p or % parts instead of 60 or 20 In the other
high-class rifles. Its capacity for good shoot
ing is shown by the extraordinary score which
Mr. Farrow made with it at Oak Grove range
Saturday.
Rifle making is as hopeful branch OF in
dustry as any other manufacture In the coun-
try. The demand in the public markets for
rifles and ammunition has increased rapidly.
Rife clubs that years ago could have been
numbered on ones fingers are now. springing
up all over the country and can only be num-
bered by the hundreds, and each of these clubs
and all are looking and experimenting TO find
the best rifle and ammunition that the country
can produce Mr. Farrow can bring into the
business the valuable experience OF nine years,
which time has been SPENT travelling over this
and other countries, introducing, shooting and
selling rifles so that there Is hardly dealer in
the country that be has not sold rifles to and
knows personally, and he Is known by
reputation. He proposes personally to take as
many shares and put as much money into the
enterprise as any other subscriber. He says
he will make the Farrow Fire Arms Co of
Brattle borO, Vermont, an institution that will
be known not only throughout this country
but through every country where guns and RI
fles can be introdu ced.
Messrs Geo E Crowell, C L Cobb and
Arthur Knight have been at Springfield, Mass,
looking over his correspondence and prospects,
and they find orders for several hundred guns
already on hand, and expressions of conf
dence from skilled rihemen in all parts of the
country.
The idea is to organize stock company with
100000 capital Mr. FarrOw will put in his pat
ent at $4,000 and subscribe $1,000 himself. A
meeting was held at Geo L CrowelPs office
Monday evening to discuss and look over the
matter and considerable progress was mace
toward the stock subscriptions. The papers
are now in the hands of the local rifemen and
after they have subscribed as much as they
wish it is believed that our large capitalists will
make up the rest.
Last year Mr. C c Dickerman, the inventor
and proprietor of the Dickerman lock which is
already well and favorably we'll known ar
ticle in the market, and which is already on the
Reformer Office door and many other business
places in town, was here to make arrangements
TO locate his business. But he suffered stroke
of paralysis soon AFTER and has been sick ever
since, and the matter has been neglected. His
ill health prevents his pushing the business as
he wishes, and he wants 10 get it into the hands
of well managed company. He is ready to
put in several thousand dollars himself. The
lock is unquestionaby the best thing made, it
is in use at the White House and some of the
Departments at Washington, and there is no
question that the business If properly managed.
can be made good one. Mr. Dickerman is
attracted to Brattleboro by its natural beauty
and social superiority, and if suitable accom-
modatious can be found we ought to have him
here. The manufacture could be worked up to
employ $50 hands.
There is still another project of which we
can't give full particulars this week, because
another town as well as this is trying to get it,
and we don't want to give them any points. 1t
is an established business, which has outgrown
the place where it is now located. One of the
partners wants to come here and the other to
the other place, and as the business men of the
other place are wide awake lot who don't |
lose chances we must bestir ourselves. The
parties are to be invited to meet some of
our representative and public spirited cit
liens to see what can be done. They don't |
ask for any additional capital, though it is |
doubtless question Of inducements, between |
this and the other place, and we ought to |
arrange among ourselves in advance what we will |
offer. Mr. Crowell offers to put up another |
building for them at once il necessary, or
utilized, provided the Dlckerman enterprise
does not take it. 1t is business which can
give employment to several hundred hands, and
a particularly favorable feature is that much
of the WORK is Of kind which women can take
70 their homes and do.
The Farrow enterprise will need only few
hundred dollars worth of machinery besides
that OF the Highly Sewing Machine Co, and
about $500 worth of tools. If successful $780,
900 cash will he needed to swing it, but the
investment of not over $500 for tools and
and $4,000 to get out the first lot of
goods would be sufficient TO test it,