Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-10
MANUFACTURING POSSIBILITIES.
What MT. Henry Chiffon of Boston
Thinks.

Mr.. Henry Chiffon, of Boston, Mass,
is visiting this part of the State, and has
been looking about with view of ascer-
tanning its adaptability as a location for
tool factory. In conversation with a
HERALD reporter yesterday he said that
so far as he was able to observe there
was no reason why Los Angeles county
should not take precedence in manufac-
lures as we'll as in genial air for resi-
dences. Said he: "I have been looking
over the ground pretty thoroughly for
1 expect 1 shall induce my as
sociates to start tool factory
here. and there are several things
which must be considered if we attempt
the venture. Fuel is one consideration
and material is another. see no reason
why fuel could not be furnished here as
cheaply as it is in the East. Coal oil and
its products are greatly used there and SO
is natural gas. Los Angeles is in the Vi
cinity of great coal-oil producing region,
and with properl, constructed systems
of pipe lines, the coal oil could be carried
to any place very cheaply. also think
that you have good reasons to suppose
that natural gas can be produced in suf-
ficient quantity to make we'll pay large
ly. I visited a spot over the Second
street hills the other day, and l saw a
place where the natural gas comes to the
surface in sufficient quantity
to produce a flame when confined to a
stovepipe. Ii that spot is bored properly
there is no doubt but gas will be obtained
in large quantities. have been in
formed that gas wells have been tried to
the south of the city but l have not
visited them, 80 judge that this region
is we'll provided with fuel, which, with
judicious outlay can be produced as
cheap as anywhere on the continent.
In the course of my travels over the
country have seen what thought was
that efforts have been made to find
coal bed, but 1 am satisfied that no
thorough effort has been made to
find it. l have seen 6ssure veins of
coal in many places in the hill, and
under these are beds OF slate, which no one
has as yet bored. 1t is well known that
coal in quantity always occurs under a
bed of slate, and think if these beds of
slate were bored the coal would be
found. / have been told that the
country was too much broken up for the
coal to be present in very large bed,
but it seems to me that more than
enough could be mined from one place
to make it pay largely"
'Another question which enters into
consideration here is the question of
labor and it's price. have investigated
this question also, and have come
to the conclusion that it can
be settled easily. The manufacturers
who come to this coast will
dc an extraordinarily large business if
they supply the Coast alone, and they
can afford to pay the money to labor that
is now paid out for freight. This amount
will bring the price Of labor up to it's
average here and workmen will be better
off here thousand times than they are
in the east. have seen workmen there
spend the last cent Of their incomes for
fuel, and fuel there in winter is the prin-
cipal part Of the expense in keeping up
household. In Los Angeles this expense
win be saved and this saving will amount