The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-03-01
THE PLACE TO MAKE iron
The Inducements jackson Offers
to Capital.

to Capital.
The industries Of Jackson County
are distinctively mineral productions.
We have here coal in almost exhaust
less quantities; limestone everywhere;
hills weighted down with iron ore; all
the component parts OF finished iron
in limitless supply. Railroad facili-
ties are excellent, and there seems to
be nothing lacking to make this
most wonderfully favored spot for
working up the raw material into the
finished product. Thousands of tons
of pig-iron are shipped from this
point to be smelted and moulded into
stoves and CRATES at distant points, to
be worked up in the foundries and
mills, and to supply the great iron
markets.
We are to have foundry building
erected within short time which will
be a valuable addition to our indus
tries. Now, the fact Of building and
starting a foundry is not the end of
enterprise. Foundries are started up
quite frequently, and many OF them
are left, hollow mockeries of the very
thought of enterprise. But this foun-
dry contemplated at Jackson is to be
run as an active manufacturing estab-
lishment, making articles for which a
steady demand can easily be built up,
and bringing the outside business
world into closer relation with Jack
son. We already have an excellent
foundry and machine shop Mr..
Gray's-and the new enterprise will
doubtless bring such increased inter-
ests in this line, that the present one
will be run to its fullest capacity.
The new enterprise will be run by
practical mechanics, just as the pres
ent one is. So that the foundry out
look seems to be a good one.
The man Of ordinarily intelligent
observation will readily see that it
would be better to run out, from
Jackson, finished wrought iron, bar,
plate, and the like, than to ship pig.
iron from here to Portsmouth, Iron
ton, Wheeling, Pittsburgh, or some
other point, make it into wrought
iron, then put it on the market.
There need be but one shipment in
the premises. How may this be done?
The great necessity Of this region, and
the great advantage offered to capital,
is the location of a rolling mill at
Jackson. This is an enterprise that
has been needed here for many years.
To take the raw materials out of the
earth, work them up on the spot, and
send forth the finished product, is Ger
tainly of greater advantage to capital
than to locate in some city with no
natural advantages, then ship, and
re-ship, in order to get into market.
The place to work up materials is on
the spot where they are found, pro-
vided there are suitable advantages.
Why, there ought to be the hum Of
the wheels Of two-score factories in
this place, working up iron, in its va
rious uses and notifications. We do
not know of a town anywhere, offer
ing better advantages for the location
of rolling mill, There is an abun-
dance Of water, and grounds peculiar
ly adapted to the location Of such an
enterprise.
Jackson rejoices in the prosperity of
every town in the county, and the
planting Of industrial enterprises in
any Of them is source Of great graf
ification to the people of Jackson.
What we are after is the material
prosperity of the county. Jackson
presents attractions for the location
of capital and enterprise, not offered
by newer towns. The town is in
finished condition, and is noted as a
great musical, literary and educational
center. The public peace is preserved
carefully by watchful officers, and
the citizens are as a rule order-loving
and intelligent. The churches and
Sabbath-schools are successful aud
Aourishing, and morally the town
compares favorably with any town in
the State. In fact, Jackson is a good,
clean, healthy, fourishing little city,
and capital cannot find better place
Of investment. There are no adven-
lures and no risks in locating in Jack
son.
The growth Of the town has been
slow, but it has been solid. We re-
member Jackson as miserable little
hamlet, with scarcely enough life to
indicate the presence of a populace.
1t has not been a great while since
there was little to do but sit upon the