The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-12

at Basic Cify-Gives His Reasons for
Selecting this Point-Great Sale Of Lots
December Sd and 4th.
From the stanton NindcatOri
On Wednesday evening, learning that
there was a patty Of Western manufac-
turers at the Virginia on prospecting tour
in this section Of Virginia, a representa-
tive OF the Vindicator called there TO get
their views about the era of progress which
is now prevailing here. lie found the party
10 consist of Messrs. l.. Link, Of Rushville,
Ind. president of the Rush County Ma
tional Bank; Noble Brann, lumberman, the
largest stakeholder in the Rushyille School
Furniture Company, in which Mr.. Link is
largely interested; George :. Mcgee, secre-
| tary and treasurer Of the company, and NJ.
Nolan, of the firm Of Nolan, Madden Co.,
manufacturers of tile and brick ma
chimes at Nashville, and stakeholder and
director in the Rushyille school Furniture
Company. They were Western business
men. typical representatives Oftbe gO-ahead
| peOple of that section Of the country, and
| were courteous and communicative as 10
their mission in this section. Our repre-
sentative found that they had already de-
cidel on locating, and had that morning
made a contract to remove the School Fur
niture Works to Basic City.
What do YOU think of the boom we are
having in Virginia! asked the Nindicator
representative of Mr.. Link.
A FARMING COUNTRY ALREADY BUILT Up.
"Oh," said he, laughing, "you people
down here haven't any boom yet to speak
Of Wait till next spring and you will see
one. You are new 10 the rapid growth Of a
country, and because you see towns located
and lots selling at high price you think the
end Of the world has come. You have got
the finest country here in the world, and
| what is more you have got every
thing else added 10 it. Your boom,
as you call it, ought to be
greater than it is for, you see, you
had gotten the bulk Of the work done before
any booming was started. You had your
country built up already. out West see,
that isn't the case. The trouble out there is
that YOU start a town in section where the
farming country isn't built upand the town
grows faster than the country. Here you've
got fine. rich farming country, thickly
settled and far ahead Of any town building
that you may do for long time TO come.
The only wonder to us is that you were so
long finding out how to build up and i'm
prove your country, and how little Of it has
been done. Now that you have taken it up,
il is so new that you think you are going a
hundred miles an hour, and don't suppose
it will do any harm TO let you think you
are"
How came you to turn your eyes towards
this section TO manufacture iny was asked
Mr.. Link.
GETTING NEAR TO RAW MATERIAL.
"Well, you see up North. especially in
the East. the people have grown rich doing
the manufacturing for your people Of the
south, and we believed that the time had
come, and you people Of the South showed
by your spirit that it had come, for the
| South 10 have its manufactures located
right among its own people. II a man
wants TO make an axe helye ne don't take
the sapling up out OF the woods and carry
it two or three hundred miles 10 get a man
to cut it and dress ii for "A helye; he just
cuts and dresses it right in the woods where
he finds it. That's what the Southern peO-
pie are going 10 do hereafter-they are 90
ing TO dress their own helve right in their
own woods where they cut the saplng, and
| we are here with our money and our labor
to Join in that business with them. There
is a big reason for what is going on in your
State. The time and the conditions have
come when the manufacturers have got to
get near to the new consumers that have
their homes in the South. That is the big,
round reason, and these lot speculatiOns are
flies on its surface that have been Matched
out by the prosperity. IL will not be long
before the boomer will give way to the man
with the Oyerals on, who brings permanent
wealth with him wherever he goes. The
Southern country is the coming country of
the world"
How came your party to select Basic City
for the location to which TO remove your
factory?
THE REASONS FOR THE SELECTION OF
BASIC CITY.
"Well, because it was the best site for a
manufacturing city that We were able 10
find in the South. We didn't select it in a
hurry. Some of us went over the route
clear from Hagerstown down this Valley
and on 10 New Orleans; some Of us went
over the ground from San Francisco TO the
Atlantic, and we found no place which
combines everything a factory wants IS
Basic City does. A factory on a single line
Of railway, making a large output, has a hard
time. It's like running business and haV-
ing another man TO have the veto power
on it. One railroad may be fair enough to
YOU, but two railroads competing with each
other will be certain TO give you fair
show. II sort of puts the veto in your own
hand and helps to get good rates. No man
who hasn't tried manufacturing on a single
line Of railroad can half appreciate the ad-
yantages of being at the junction Of COM
peting lines. They won't make YOU wait
for cars oft0n, tell you. Basic city is at
the Junction Of competing lines that will
take your products to every part Of this
land and TO deep water, and that is worth
lots Of money TO a manufacturer.
Then again, Basic City is the best site we
have found for manufacturer that uses
10th iron and wood. Everything is in easy
reach Of 1.-THE cheap coal, the cheap coke.
the cheap iron and the cheap lumber. That
is, important to factories, but especially To
us because we run an iron foundry in con-
necti0n with our factory.
Then we found there the cheapest prop
erty on which 10 put houses for wOrkmen.
You can't keep good wOrkmen In skilled
mandatory like ours unless they have
nice homes, and they can't have nice homes
| if the lots are so high as 10 take all their
money before they build. Skilled labor
wants to own its home.
"lhen we found il a healthy place, with
pure water, and good drainage, and the
mountain air. a man working "A large
4 force OF men knows health means money
and sickness is loss of money. There is no
malaria at Basic City like we have i'm so
many places ont West. A good, healthy
| location like Basic City means no 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 10 il, too. Some
of US have been through there from two TO
three times since last February, and the
sort of growth il is making caught our eve.
| IL is putting up big manufactures, and,
after all, that is the only way 10 make city
sure. We have watched the town pretty
close since we set our eyes on it, as we have
done others in the meantime, and the way
things were managed suited us, and so,
after all Of us compared notes, we deter
mined 10 move our factory down there. The
managers Of the corporation have treated
as as business men should, fairly, and, i'm
some things, literally, and we have conf
dence enough in the big future of the
town 10 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