San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-01
CONCERNING MANUFACTURES.

now doubt the profitableness of south
western manufacture. The Waco
Day is not among the number, hav-
ing tangible evidence to the contrary.
In a recent issue of the Day is the
following editorial note, a trade vol
ume in q sentence or two:
"When Waco is selling jeans to
Massachusetts,, as Sanger Bros. did
| last week, why should there be
doubt about the profitableness of
manufacturing cotton "a we'll as
wooden cloths in Waco?"
None whatever, would be the mani
fest answer to such question. Manu-.
featuring industries, however, do not
grow like mushrooms in night. A
successful mandatory is the result
OF several things, among the
foremost of which must be reck-
oned horse sense and ripe
experience. San Antonio has not
the dead wood ofdefunct and unprofit-
able manufactures to clear away be-
fore engaging in creative industries,
and this is All ad vantage. The LIGHT,
for four years a strong and constant
advocate of manufacturing industries,
has every reason to congratulate
itself upon the work it has done in
pioD eering the way for Industrial en-
terprise in this city, and is quite con-
fident that q the Investigations
being made, and already made, by
capitalists with large manufacture
ing experiences, will result in plant
Ing such factories in this city
as will very materially add
to her resources and advance
her trade. There is an old adage
that fools rush in where angels fear
to tread" In nothing is this more
noticeable than in the insane rush
made for manufacturing, by those
who have merely caught up the word
as a shibboleth and have no intelli-
gent conception of its real importance
or of the grave difficulties that under
lie its successful establishment. Men
who cannot manage their own little
business without over drawisg the
bank accounts OF their subscribed
capital howl out manufactures, man
ufactures. as though the sound would
bring the substance. Better go slow
enough to be sure. San Antonio
needs manufacturing plants. She
can profitably see established in her
midst today-cotto2 mills, WOODEN
mills, paper mills, boot and shoe
mandatory, iron mills and possibly
some others. These cannot he sue
cessfully established without great
care, judgment and a very practical
experience. 1t is question of time
to open market, and that market
will only open when manufactured
goods commend themselves by price
and quality to the merchants who are
to purchase. More encouragement
should certainly be given by this city
to such enterprises, but her caution
Is not unneeded. The men who
rush for manufacturing bonuses
are not always the men of expe-
rience and ripe knowledge of details
and processes. 1t is ten times as diff
ficult to plant successful manufac-
ture in a manufacturing COM
munity than in an old manufacturing
center and every practical man sees
this, but the town boomer neither
sees nor cares, his whole intent and
aim being to create Juror that will
sell town lots. When San Antonio
goes into manufacturing 1t will be to
stay. The men who have been look
ing up manufacturing sites and get
ting options on suitable properties for
| the past six months know their bust
ness. Arrangements will be made
public as soon as completed and when
they are the LIGHT will make them
public. 1t is very easy to scare hen
when she is selecting the place to lay
her eggs and make her nest and the
LIGHT is not fussing just now to
build that nest. The manufacturing
pullet is clucking and the LIGHT is
quite certain that she means bust
ness, but does not propose to disturb
her just now to find out if the nest
| egg has been actually laid.