Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17

! their money before they build. SkilIe,
labor wants to own its home.
There we found it a healthy place, witt
pure water, and good drainage, and tn
mountain air. A man working larg
force of men knows that health means
money and sickness is loss of money
| There is no malaria at Basic City like we
have in so many places out West. A gooi
healthy location like Basic City means nc
trouble with sick men, and that means a
good deal in the way of profit and absence
OF worry where you are working skilled
labor.
The way things are managed at Basic
City attracted our attention to it too. Some
OF us have been through there from two to
three times since last February, and the
sort OF growth it is making caught our
eye. 1t is putting up big manufactures
and after all that is the only way to make
city sure. We have watched the town
pretty closely since we set our eyes on it,
as we have done others in the mean time,
and the way things were managed suited
etot teiid ~ obIUCl oil VI I'D HUGS
we determined to move our factory down
there. The managers of the corporation
have treated us as business men should,
fairly, and in some things literally, and
we have confidence enough in the big flu
ture of the town to put our plant there.
In our opinion. after going over the whole
Southern country, the possibilities before
Basic City are simply immense, and We
put our money On that to double. We have
seen nothing like it elsewhere. And now [
guess you have all our reasons for bringing
a big plant from Indiana to Basic City,"
What is the character of the enterprise
you will bring to Basic City?
sour enterprise is the Rushville School
Furniture Company. We make all the
furniture for schools, public buildings,
churches, opera houses, banks, State capt.
tolls, in short all furniture for public use
We are doing a fine business and our goods
sell from Maine to California, and we have
a foreign trade in Mexico and Hayti.
Notwithstanding the active competition,
our goods sell in New Y ork, st. Louis and
others of the largest cities. We will start
at Basic City with 400 men and in short
time have working 1000. We will increase
just as fast as we can train the new labor
we get here, to the work. We expect to
be on the ground inside of ten days and
begin work on our buildings, and I think
we will have the smoke coming out of our
stacks before any factory now going up
there. We will have the capacity for
10000 pieces of furniture year. We have
a foundry with our works and will do all
the work from melting the iron for the
iron work, to putting the finish On the
goods.''
elbow long will you gentlemen be in this
neighborhoodT'
''Oh, a few days more. MI. Brann there
wants to look around into the lumber sup
ply of this region. l have some friends
here. My wife is the niece of Hon. Marshall
Hanger of your town and have been visit
ing some of her connections in the county,
Our representative after little more
talk on general subjects. babe the strangers
good night, and left them busy talking over
their plans. They are live set of men,
and it is to such men coming among us
that Virginia will owe much Of the great
prosperity that is in store for her.