Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-03

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from the Union Depot on the tunnel"
side, the block Of imposing structures
| towering in air hundred feet ifnmedi-
ately in front of him seems Ike q
tabled creation OF the genii. Turning q
quarter TO the right, the scarcely inferior
monuments Of the Buckeye Buggy Conn
turns half round to the left and is con-
evidences OF third buggy company !;
bristles with evidences of buggy com
panies.
In local aud corporate proximity to
the Columbus Buggy Company is the
Peters Dash Company, the one an out
growth Of the other, though which way
the line Of descent runs one cannot dis
cover from appearances, for, as the
Irishman would say, each is bigger than
the other! Twelve hundred pairs Of
hands respond daily to the whistled
summons Of the latter company.
400 complete dashes an hour Of various
and exquisite patterns is the output. One
of the best equipped repair and machine
shops in Columbus is built up and sup
ported mainly by this mammoth insti-
tuition. None OF your everyday shops
either, is this one. 1t must invent q
we'll as make and repair tho vast, tho
varied and the intricate machines md
devices required by the Dash Company.
Cutting machines, stamping machines,
steam hammers, furnishing apparatus,
and how much more wouldtak hours to
enumerate. Even their sewing machines
are special contrivances n unknoWn@to
Howe or Singer.
In direct connection with carriagewUfk
are numerous other special concernssex-
celed, if equaled, only by the general
establishments-the Brewster Side Bar
Company, The Fish Top Rail Works,
manufacturers of seats. Of springs, of
axles, in fact of every single item
of carriage construction and Of
items connected with items ad IN
fnitum. OF collateral industries we
find the Columbus Bolt Works a
mammoth and immensely profitable con-
Germ in itself. One way Or an
other thousand men perhaps find en-
ployment in the single matter OF the me-
tallic shells Of patent hubs. These are
mostly malleable iron and the immense
patronage they afford to malleable works
has built up that line of industry in CO.
luluDuo db. nOWDoIo cibC. lhCc0 AEdil
have each its own circle of identical or
related industries. For example the
most complete and perfect ablishment
Harness and Saddlery Hardware Works,
a city in itself and in its manifestations
reaching out to rolling mills and blast
furnaces on the one hand, to agricultural
and textile manufactures on the other.
1901 fxe,
factories feeding first upon the timber
| finally disregarded all the bounds
forests thousand miles distant. With
the tentacles of her long railway arms,
Columbus strips the distant mountain
sides OF their verdure and bears the
booty home to feed her Unsuitable mills.
They have found means Of utilizing every
fiber OF every tree, living or dead. After
selecting the choicest stock for various
parts of carriage work, the inferior por-
tons serve various uses, one Of which is
pickets for the comparatively new indus
try of woven fence" device so light,
cheap, strong and durable that Column
bus now proposes to fence every farm in
the State Of Ohio better and cheaper
than the farmers themselves can do i'll
am now going to state an industrial
fact which almost transcends belief in
the astounding audacity with which
it sets at defiance certain pre-
conceived notions of the require
ments of mechanical q production.
Last season the Door, Sash and Lum-
Der Company OF Columbus, the leading
wood working corporation Of Ohio, erect
ed on West Broad street extensive mill
| ing machinery Of the most approved and
expensive pattern, preparatory to doing
their own cutting from the log. Their
| first incidental purchase was a matter OF
million or so feet of logs a'Qiy up in
| West Virginia, which they kqft down the
Ohio to the nearest point sd transport
thence by rail. They propose bringing
pine in like manner from Northern
Michigan by Lake Toledo, thence by
rail. They will lay Georgia under tribute
for poplar. Look out California for your
rcd-woods! Some Columbus man will
want them directly, if he has not booked
them already. ~ al
But see shall not half-fllustrate my
subject as could do and intended doing
with incidents in the industrial growth
of single community bntinlittle larger
than that of Los Angeles. From sheer
bulk the matter refuses compression into
the space wherein the average reader
confines his attention. Literally there
are scores of allied induHtfies / could
enumerate. The point I5sh to impress
is simply this: They are all or mainly
the outgrowth of SO apparently trihing a
matter as the Establishment, few years
ago, of carriage shop backed, however,
nv oenir,s capital and enferprise Los