The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-11-06

| raid. The new rates OF uutJ otl 'iS
product Of the European looms threat
| en- 10 ruin their trade with America,
| and Jus, as a matter Of self-defence
they are going to move over here and
| manufacture their goods. They won
shu, up their European mills, but none
| Of the product Of those nils, VIII he
put on our counters.
| The first Of these new founders, as
| far as can be learned, Is J. CarmI-
| chaei Allen, who has been IN the linen
| manufacturing business in Ireland
nearly all his life He came over
here himself at the beginning o! the
agitation. He decided that 1t would
pay to be American, and so he organ
lied stock company of Americans.
With part American capital he IS
going to build linen mill in Min
neapolis The money is all subscribed
and a site in the northeastern part OF
the city has been purchased. The
work OF building will be begun at
once. To start with there will be SO
looms, and flax fibre grown IN North
ern Minnesota will be used. The ma
chinery that will be put into the mill
will be of American manufacture, and
the mill hands will all be Amerl-
! can and will get American wages.
The second enterprise to find a
place is dyeing concern to be run by
Lewis Hermsdorf, the famous Saxon
''fast black" man. In his estabablish-
mcnt in Chemnitz, Saxony, he EN-
ploys 1900 hands, and he makes
black dye for all kinds of hosiery,
gloves and tricot cloth. He is going
to settle in Philadelphia. His agent
has done everything except arrange
the details Of the purchase and con-
struction of factories. He said few
days ago that everything was settled,
and that Hermsdorf would have a
place here in few months
These are but instances OF what
may be expected not only in the i'm
mediate future, but for a long time
ahead. Foreign capital has been
flowing into the South for some con-
siderable time. Much has gone into
the coal and iron industries and into
others of magnitude. and much more
is ready for employment in new enter
prises, for which contracts have al
ready been made.
The foreign capital that has come
into the South as rule thus far has
been put into these simpler lines Of
manufacturing that require but little
skilled labor; but the agents to whom
the SIN referred represents another
and higher class of industries that re-
quire trained employees for their sue
cessful operation. Manufacturers of
this description are what the South
needs for that diversity of production
which is necessary to insure permanent
prosperity. Multiplicity Of industries
is essential 10 the steady growth of
every manufacturing region The
South has made 4 supberb start in
both the magnitude and the variety of
the industrial enterprises of the past
ten years, but they fall far short of
what the South is capable OF support
ing.
These European agents seeking
good locations for establishing mills for
the production of linen and wooden
dress goods, hosiery and various other
things for which in the past the Uni
ted States has been their most profita-
BILE customer, are the very men the
South needs. They probably know
little or nothing about its advantages.
TEey naturally go to examine those To-
calities where similar goods are now
made, or which have some fame as
Centers Of diversified industries. Yet,
were they to be informed of the supe-
rlority of the South in all its respects
for manufacturing establishments OF
every kind, of the choice sites that
would be gladly given them, Of the
CheapneSs Of building materials and OF
construction, of the lower cost of liv-
| ing as compared with Eastern and
Northern cities, of the great saving in
fuel and other incidental expenses, OIL
the lesser taxes they would have to
pay; IN fine, ofthe manifold advantages
to be secured at a Southern, location
they would undoubtedly look careful
ly through this section before they
made their decision.
Here is the South's opportunity
These agents must be found and in.
formed. They must be invited by
the towns and cities that have free
sites to give to go and examine them.
They must be informed in detail OIL
the advantages OF the locality. 1t
would be worth all the trouble and all
the cost if but one large European plan,
could be secured, both because of its
immediate value to the place selected
and because Of the influence tina,
choice would have upon other location
seeker.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, March %, 1890.
| Radam's Microbe Killer Co.