The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-25
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Ipoaef or carriage, md out whether 1t Is man
Nfactured in Georgia.
7 just see how 1t works. Here Is u talk with
MIR. Smith, the well-known carriage maker
Y "This carriage" said Mr.. Smith. "was
Enade for Mr. L. j. Hill, who has always stood
by home industries
Sand what will you do with the money!"
"A good part of it will go back to Mr.. Hills
bank the same day he pays it to me. Four
hfths of 1t will be paid out in Atlanta and 1t
will go to the grocers, the bakers, the dry
goods men and the clothing stores, and they
fwill pay 1t to somebody else, and it will
lbe moving and doing business here after the
fcarriage wears out. That thousand dollars
kpay do ten thousand dollars worth of bust
mess in week after 7 get it,.
GLOW many carriage makers are there in
georgia, and what does their work amount
&o9"
"There are about seventy-five, employing a
yhousand men. They average about SIS, 900
year each, or about million dollars worth a
year for the state.''
Chow much of that money stays in Georgia"
About four-ffths, or $S0o,OO0, and the
etate is just $So0,0O0a year better off than she
8Tould be without the carriage Makers
How many carriages and vehicles are sold
En Georgia by outside factories7"
= "About twice as many as we make-say two
million dollars worth year. If they were
made in Georgia the state would be 81, COO, 600
p year better off than she is now, and instead
of the thousand hands at work in the bust
Ress there would be an army of three thousand
making living for themselves and supporting
p number Of grocers, dry goods men, shoe men
land clothiers1''
Mr. Boyd, Of the Boyd s. Baxter Furniture
company, estimates that the people Of Georgia
give years ago almost all Of this was bought
Outside the state. Taking off the profit of the
Retailers 81 lee 900 went out of Georgia every
year to buy furniture.
eNow," said he, 1.-The three furniture fac
fories of Atlanta and the others in the state
make every year about 5000, 900 worth of fur
biture at the wholesale price.
= TOne-third Of the cost of this furniture goes
OFF to pay formarble, glass, varnish and hard
hare, and the other two,thirds remain ,hefe
Nhe furniture factories keep in Georgia $780,
200 that formerly went outside the state"
: 1t is estimated that the farmers Of Georgia
knents, including gins. The larger part Of this
hum was lost to the state every year. Now
khis leak is stopped and more than stopped.
: The superintendent of the Southern Agri-
Epltural works of Atlanta estimates that
$2,500000 worth of agricultural implements is
manufactured in Georgia every year.
The Georgia plow and gin factories have
stopped leak of a million and in addition
Eiey nave Drought III q million ana a nail
from other states.
y A bottle would seem to be small thing es-
pecialiy when 1t is empty, but there are near
p half million dollars worth Of them used in
Georgia every year for patent medicines, soda
water and beer. The lamp chimneys will run
1T over that sum.
V OF this half million dollars, one-third Is now
saved to the state by Georgia grit and the labor
bf the glass blowers in the Atlanta works.
DR.. j. W. Rankin says that the Atlanta
krIo -nr-S a no&;,1,
&132, 900 worth of bottles and 1914, 009 worth of
Ehimneys year. Add to this the item of $50
"a day for packing boxes. There is windfall
of ~ 200 year for the southern box factory
sWhe works employ 1877 hands and three mules
1t costs the people of Georgia about
million dollars year to keep clean. That is
Ehe estimate of soap manufacturer.
! Five years ago all this money took unto itself
ahe swift wings of the American dollar and
few away into other states. Since then
Fwo soap factories have sprung up in Atlanta
hnd they are making soap at the rate of $780,
900 year.
10 make Georgia self cleansing
Our brooms have been growing in Missouri
and other western states. and Mr.. Frank Lo-
gan estimates that 100000 year was paid
Eeorgia will make $4,000 to 100000 worth of
fbrooms, and the home industry in Atlanta has
almost driven cut foreign competition.
i 1t costs nearly million dollars year to
HlBHb our ClbArH, gas l6lS ana ureS. MT. rank
logan, who is interested in the Atlanta match
factory estimates that 100000 to 81, 0O0,0
goes to buy matches in Georgia every year.
SFormeriy this money all went out of the state,
ibut since the two match factories started at
ATLANTA and Griffin they keep $4,000 of the
tanoney at home.
~ Mr.. f. E. Block estimates that the candy
madei in Georgia is worth 100000 and the
CRACKERS $64S,000 year. There is a leak of q
million and quarter stopped by using home
made sweetmeats and crackers. A good dea
Pf this money Is brought in from other states.
IMr. Block sells marsh mallows in California.
81 used two car loads of kegs month"; and
Ehey worth $500 car load" said Mr..
BLOCK, land the other dealers here will use
Ehree times as many more. There is at least
$4,000 worth of kegs used an Atlanta every
year"
{ GLOW about woodenware in general?"
"There is any amount Of it used in the state,
and it might just as well be made here as any
where else We have the wood here"
Mr.. Frank Logan, who has made a study of
fhe matter says: "There is an enormous
quantity of wooden ware used in Georgia.
"Then there are so many things in the
woodenware line everything from a clothes
pin to a wash-tub. Why the freight on wooden
Aware is handsome profit of itself. ! don't
Enean hubs and spokes and aE-handles, fort
branch of the business is overdone already,
tbut look at the great variety of things you can
make in one lathe that costs $780, 1t used to
fbe so that separate machine was required for
each article, but now you have adj
unstable machines with attacments that
enable you TO make almost anything
IA gentlemen who was with me in the broom
business heard me talking woodenware, and
he went all through the east investigating the
business. The result is that he has established
d woodenware factory at Albany, Ga"
] "If everybody win buy woodenware from the
Albany factory as long as it can furnish the
goods other factories will spring up and the
Immense outgo for woodenware will soon be
Stopped.
y 'f0ne grocery house in Georgia received
ewithin the past week schooner load, 10000
Ceases, of canned goods, said Mr.. Block, there
Bs $4,000 paid out in one week by one concern
There are two million dollars worth of canned
goods brought into Georgia in year. Some
of these goods, like salmons we could not put
zap here, but at least million dollars worth OF
banned goods could be made in Georgia.
"Mr. Platt OF Platt 20 Son. Baltimore
canning concern, told me that the peaches and
E1uinces of Georgia were better for canning
hhan any in the United States"
Seven hundred suits, made Of the Eagle &
Phenix cottonades, were sold in Atlanta last
GUNNER at 81 suit.
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