The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-09-06
TO BUSINESS INVESTORS.



To honest. industrious men, or men OF
capital. seeking q location to establish
in business, We wish 10
whisper that Jasper presents superior
I Inducements.
II Is = town Of about l 800 Inhabitants,
BY fine agricultural
country. which ships annually hundreds
of cars OF agricultural products--con-
kequently subsistence IL cheap.
II is under laid with fine quality oi
scmi-hIock coal. easily mined BY drift
lug into any Of the hills surrounding il.
For steam purposes the pea coal from
these mimes il delivered anywhere IN
the town At fifty cents Q ton, and is prac-
ticaliy inexhaustible. lump coal IL fur.
nIshed in the coal house or bin, At anv
place In town. at from 81 80 to el rs
= ton, according 70 quantity desired.
The county gets its coal delivered for
use In the court house and jail at $l163
la ton.
Itis surrounded by fine body OF
timber. OF all kinds indigenous to the
latitude.
Patoka river skirts the south and east
Isides Of the town, aud furnishes never
failing supply Of water for manufacto-
Iries along its banks. Good soft water
lie obtained in abundance for domestic
uscs any place In the town ata depth OF
| from 20 to 80 feet.
A fine quality Of good building gray
laand-stone is quarried near the town
This stone has demonstrated its excell-
Ience by standing good for over so years
the severe test Of freezes and thaws IL
| the pier Of bridge across Patoka river.
House patterns Of good brick are de-
Ilivered at S5 TO IS so per 1000. and small
Ter quantities at slight advance, and
building lumber, rough, at SIS per 1000
feet; surfaced and seasoned at go to $50
per loo, ss to quality.
The community is liberal and intelU-
gent one; with handsome and commo-
dious Catholic and Methodist churches,
and good public schools, and citizens.
without exception, heartily welcome oil
new business enterprises.
II Is the northern terminous OF the
Jasper and Evansville division Of the L..
lE. & St. L. Ry. and has three trains each
way per day.
| The town has Is manufacturing estab-
| lishments using steam power, embracing
2 steam -four mills. 2 planning mills.
saw mills, spoke factory, stavo aud
shingle factory, furniture factory,
brewery, l machine shop, wagor
factories, and brick-yards, which did q
business last year sggregating oveI
e275, 900. II has three large weIl-stocked
ldry goods and general stores. and
smaller ones. 4 grocery stores, none o'
them extensive. 4 confectionaries, 3 shoe
shops, = good photograph gallery, 2 book
stores, 9 drug stores, 4 hotels, 2 printing
Offices. 4 state bank. 2 livery stables. and
several other branches Of business, all
doing well. and 2 building associations
Of 100000 and $4,000 capital respect
lively.
! To persons who are seeking an invest
ment for capital In manufacturing enter
prises of any kind, and have skiIl and in.
dustry TO apply to their business. Jasper
presents rare inducements. and her citi-
zens will extend hearty welcome.
Among the branches Of business which
ought TO bs established here and would
lcertainly pay, are WOODEN mill, email
foundry, large fruit connery, Q good
butter. and cheese dairy, tiling factory,
. handle factory, good broom factory,
= good pottery, general produce dealer,
who would pay cash for farm produce
Iofall kinds In any quantity; another
-four mill might possibly be made to pay,
also, as over $4,000 bushels Of wheat
were shipped from Jasper last
year which II seems to us might
have been made into -four here with
profit, and the manufactured products
shipped. II IL probable, too, that mer-
chant with sufficient capital to carry a
good stock Of any single line of goods,
would be able by his larger assortment
OF that line. and consequent lower pur-
chasea, 10 secure enough trade from the
general stores abounding in the country
10 make II profitable but this would be
an experiment, while the others may be
counted as certainties. At AL events, II
you are seeking location, come and be
one Of us.