Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-10-26

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CARRIER II Connell
The Threshing Machine factory was
located 1t the old Tilt ba INNER bridge and
was ruiz by Mathew McKeevsr.
The Brewery was located where the
little city park now is. 1t was run by a
German named Bowlir ger.
The Tobacco factory was run by John
Fackler, bat of this Mr.. Fuller would not
say that it was going between 80 and go,
| as he could rot place it after 1910.
The Churn factory was located in a
! building back of DR.. Arthuf's Office and
owned by him.
| The Paper Mill was run by Jacob Smith,
from Pennsylvania, before 1850. but was
F.! succeeded by that of Mr.. Sheets at Mt.
, Scion, after 1850.
T, The Pulling Mill was run by Mr.. Bree re,
i but Mr.. Fnller does not think that was
| between 80 and So but before.
TIE Rope walk was run by Richard
Williams, on CARRIER lot, IN Newt ,wn. 1t
made rops and sold it to the surrounding
country.
| Lie INV idCuoly w as LUZ NY mJClly
Smith and was located where the Skating
! Rink now stands.
The Wheat Fan factory was run by
| Mr.. Broomburgh, where the residence of
| Puryiance Tams now stands.
| The R is factory was run by Henry
| Sheets, and stood near to the Skating
| Rink.
| The Chair and Spinning Wheel factory
was run by Jacob Kurtz, near the marble
yard and did good business, working
three or four hands.
The Pottery was located where the
Eichelberger building now is, and was run
| first by Ricketts, and afterwards by Pit
mar.
| Jewelry manufacture was done by Jere-
miah Fuller, who made silverware. Many
silver spoons may be seen in the county
today with his name as maker. He also
made gold rings and other gold jewelry.
Horse collar factory. Mr.. Fuller could
not place the factory. 1t is, however,
advertised in the Stanton Eagle of July
%, 1850, by Samuel E. Clarke, corner of
Court House Alley" who describes the
machinery used. In the same paper S. X.
| Taylor advertises to manufacture plows.
A Glove mandatory was run by Sam l
Sterling, near where J. l.. Barth has his
stand.
The list of Twenty-Five is confirmed, ex-
cept in three cases which he omits for
doubt about the exact date they existed
here-tcbacco factory, paper mill and full
ling mill; but he adds two other industris
-sllverware and gloves making which he
had overlooked. Tnis makes the list of
manufactures stand Twenty instead of
Twenty-one.
So there mag be taken as assured TWeD-
ty industrie that existed in Stanton
undera Low Tariff that do not exist under
High Tariff. Mr.. Fuller says that though
small town in that day, Stanton was
"full Of mechanics" that though the town
! was not so large 10 1850. there were mora
tallors, shoe makers and hatters than there
are to- day that they and their families
lived comfortably, dressed we'll, and the
average wages Of a mechanic were from { 8
to $40 week. We can hardly make out
| better case than this; indeed it is rarely so
good one can be made about events, not
Of record. so long past, for there are few
| men now alive who we're middle-aged OBJ
servant workingmen thirty-elght Yeals
age.
The "Virginian" gives a list of twenty
, seven industries now in Stanton, repre-
senting Bark Extract works, fertlliz rs,
can.ery, building, carriage-making, pIas-
tering, corn and -four milling. brick
making, wagon mixing, cigar making,
plaster milling, iron works and timing
cuSry one Of achich was represented in this
city before the war, except the three fist
nam ed 1t adds:
''These industries number o. employ over
300 men, mostly skilled mechanics, and pay
out weekly over So, 000 1t is this large list of
mechanical Industries, managed and worked
by some of the best talent of our city, employ
ing large number of skilled mechanics, and
paying out over SO, 600 week, that the Vim
DICTATOR would ignore, with its ''where are
they now :" for party purposes and to gain
political advantage"
After an incredulous smile at the s. 600
pay roll for 800 men ,paraded by our neigh
bor and in which nearly every working
man in Stanton will join US, we must
inform it that we are not, as it we'll knows,
stanton? They are all right; but we
asked our contemporary aUhe,e are the
trenty-0ne Of them that acre here before the
tcGr and are MOI here now? It has said
the present War Tariff built up home in
dustries Where are the home Industries
that Stanton had under a low tariff
It has said the present War Tariff was tie
friend of the workiagman and gave him
employment and a home! Where are the
| industries of the past in which go many
workmen could now find employment if
| they were open. Why are not the WOODEN
:. mil. shoe factory, tannery, stove foundry.
and brewery that it admits existed in 1853
fiourishing here to-day if High Tariff
| This state of affairs under the War Tariff
is rot confined to Stanton and Augusta
county. In the Rockbridge County Ne.Us
of last Friday we fad letter from Mr..
J. d. Morrison telling about how "home
Industries" have disappeared from that
county. Listen TO what be says:
Where are the industries a high tariff
builds up? Where? Oh, where? Echo
answers: 'Where?' The few manufactures
and industries We have, are of the unprote cted
kind and those which protected lie dead
| or dormant
| Before the war we had a tariff which was
SO low as to be called "the free trade tariff -