The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-23
FAILING WOODEN MILLS
MANY OF THEM IDLE AND SOME
FOR SALE.

MANY OF THEM IDLE AND SOME
IT, FOR SALE.
A Case Whore Protection Has Been a
Burden to the Manufacturers without
Bringing Prosperity to the Wool Grow
ers-The Present Price OF Wool. {
Our wooden industry is by no means
in a]prosperous condition, and the high
wool duties Of the Mckinley bill hold
out a still gloomier prospect for the
manufacturers.
The following items from the late num-
bers Of The New York Dry Goods Econ
omist will show what astate of depres-
sion prevails in this important industry:
"The Brown Manufacturing company,
of Dover, Me-, wooden manufacturers,
are running on half time"
"The Standard Wooden company, of
Beacon Falls, Conn, has decided to run
out this seasons goods, and if business
prospects are no brighter will close up its
business in a few weeks" IL
sowing to the unsatisfactory condi-
ton Of the wooden business the Faulk-
ner Colony Manufacturing company, Of
Keene, N. H., and the Cheshire Mills
company, Of Harrisville, will stop their
machinery for the present"
"Owing to the shut down of Rhodes &
Brothers mills at Ashton, N. j., the
town Of Llewellyn, which had a popula-
ton Of 1900 at the time Of the shut
down two months ago, has lost about
one-half of it's inhabitants"
1.-THE wooden mill of J. 8. Collins, at
Gilsum, N. H., is running on short time,
four days q week. The poor condition
of the market has necessitated curtailing
production"
1.-THE Angora mill of Sellers Hoffman,
Angora, West Philadelphia, Pa, which
shut down May 1, still continues closed,
with no prospect Of an agreement being
made between the strikers and their en-
ployer. This throws out about seventy
five hands. Cotton s~hirtings, dress goods
and cottonades are made in this plant.
It is said that the weavers were formerly
paid one cent per yard, and were cut
down seven-eighths Of a cent"
"Manayunk, Pa.-The five-story stone
mill known as the Enterprise Worsted
mill, with machinery, has been sold at
auction for the assigned estate of Hutch
inson, Ogden & Co., and was bought for
gil 100, subject to mortgages of 81, 900,
by Frederick Brown"
"Philadelphia, Pa.-The mill and ma
chinery of the Amy Manufacturing COM
pany were recently put up at auction.
About $50 manufacturers from all parts
Of the country attended the sale. The
plant was first offered, but was with
drawn on a bid Of $50, 900, as the pur-
chase price would not satisfy the mort
gage held by Powers & Weightman,
which is for $50, 0O0."
These facts tell their W story and
explain the growing sentiment among
the manufacturers in favor of free wool.
Some Of the high tariff politicians have
begun to take note of that growing senti-
ment. Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island,
Is reported to have said recently that if
he did not vote for lower duties on wool,
or for free wool, his state would send
someone to the senate who would.
The effect of free wool, both upon
manufacturing and upon wool growing,
is thus set forth by The Dry Goods
Economist:
"With free wool America would enter
as a buyer in the wool markets Of the
world on the same basis as any other ma
ton, and her demands for woods would
advance the prices to other purchasers so
90 IN pooS,ofh4n %Io rro1-o "a l.-1-Ls-
woods at greater evenness than has ever
been known, and at very little, if any,
below the average of prices that wool
growers have received for several years.
This is the manufacturers view of the
operation Of free wool upon domestic
woods. It is not that they desire cheap
wool that they ask for free wool, but be-
cause on such a basis they can enter the
markets of the world and secure quail
tiles that will enable them to diversity
their output and supply the market with
goods that r now imported in large
quantities. The demand would be quick
ened, every set of wooden machinery in
the country would be set in motion, and
the demand for American woods be in ex-
cess of the largest clip that has ever been
produced"
The opposition Of the noisy little band
Of. Ohio political wool growers to the
removal Of the wool duty Is the only
thing which stands in the way OF wise
action in the matter. This little band Of
political shepherds, with Delano, Law
renee and Harpster at It's head, is the
moving spirit Of the National Wool
Growers association. This association
recently met in convention at Galveston,
Tex, and adopted q resolution depre-
eating the defamation Of eve focks west
of the Mississippi by killing them for
market instead OF holding them for
breeders. That is, after bleeding the
wool manufacturers till they have left
little purchasing power these worthless
scold the farmer for making the most
profitable disposition Of his wool pro-
ducing animals. Even with the present
high duties on wool, and the prospect Of
still higher protection held out to them
by Mckinley, the wool growers find it
more profitable to kill their owes for
mutton rather than to keep them for
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