Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-07-26
WHICH WILL PAY BEST.

ness other than agriculture, and who
have had no experience to guide
them are continually asking which
will pay best p
The question, (which will pay
bcst?' taken in It's broadcast sense,
admits of satisfactory answer, which
is that those thugs which are quick.
ly consumed, and for which there is
an unlimited demand and th"t re
quirc but small capital TO under
take are the safest for inexperienced
people just as cotton, wheat, rice,
corn and other staples OF agriculture
are always salcablo ut some price, so
also arc shoes, broons, hoops, soap,
pickles, preserves, dried and cvapor-
ated fruits, pure cider vinegar, black
berry wine, cheap wrapping paper,
twino and scores of othor things, few
of which would require much money
at the start, but all OF which can bo
commenced i'll small way, and by
industry and economy can be in.
creased into large and profitable en-
terprisos.
There is always n market for pick.
les and tomato catsup, FOR preserves,
for jams and jollics, for fruit vinegar,
md for blackberry vino, and there
are few localities III the South where,
after the first flush OF market prices
has passed., tho fruits and vegetables
needed cnInot DO had in any quaint
t. required ut much lcaa money than
Northern manufacturers are compel
ed to pay. Wages also arc much in
favor Of the Southern producer, us
are also the cost of lumber for boxes
and Tor buildings and for living OK
ponses. These items will much more
than offset any tiint are i'll favor oil
Northern competitors.
Bung and hoop factories will mover
Slut tho market with their products
The machinery required for either
industry can be obtained with the
buildings and power required for II
few thousand dollars. Broom fucto
ries can only flourish where broom
corn does.
In nearly every place where they
have boon started i'll the United
States, the farmer had 10 be induced
to raise that crop by pledge from
manufacturers that they would pay a
stated price for the entire product.
After one or two Seasons the farmers
needed no urging, and abundant sup
plies were assured. The plant for II
broom factory requires but little
money; capital is needed principally
to pay for stock and labor. We have
often wondered why soap making has
not been made an Important Southern
industry. Nothing is nsod more gen
orally or consumed more rapidly. Ia
slavery days when there was IL leach
cry on every plantation, laundry soap
was Il domestic production. Now the
stores carry largo stocks obtained
from Chicago, New York and other
Northean cities. The South, served
as rule by wusteful negro Iaundrcss
es, Is paying heavy tribute to
Northern manufacturers. while fur
mshing them the rosin and cotton
seed oil OF which they mako large use.
We have seen boxes OF cheap soap
containing a large percentage of rosin
hcapei! up in Wholesale stores in Che
Southern commercial ccnlcrs, when
$50 could not find Il single bar made
below the Ohio and Potomac rivers.
Soap making, both for The laundry
and the toilet can be and ought to be
great Southern industry Surely II
soap factory will pay,and got in four.
teen States, in the last three months.
but two new ones have been started.
Where is all the starch used in
Southern launtrios made? Go where
you will and you will find mono but
Northern makerss' names OH the
packages in the grocery stores And
If chemists tell tho truth, the sweet
potato will yield us large percent
age of starch MS corn, and tho yield
Of Carolina und Georgia fields often
average several hundred bushels to
the acre.
We might continue these illustra
lions indefinitely. The South abounds
II materials for the establishment of
profitable industries that require but
little capital to commence, but that