Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-28
ANOTHER MANDATORY.
A Proposition For Another Big Enter
prise in Clarksville.

prospects in certain lines DESTROYS of
Joining capital with people here to
engage in some profitable industry.
Parties are expected here soon from
Michigan to establish a tobacco fac
tory and agricultural works; another
from Ohio with pump factory one
is here wanting to start a snuff fac
tory and now comes a proposition for
something else, the Lord only knows
what, but it is likely a bread tactorg
as corn is the raw material to be
used. The corn is here and this is
the thing farmers ought to take some
stock in to increase the value Of the
corn crop.
A. Howell, cashier of the Clarks
vile National Bank, received the
following letter from an Indiana
gentleman last week:
81 represent, in a practical sense,
an industry which should be, but has
never been introduced anywhere in
the South. We use as raw material
! corn, and our manufactured product
is in daily use in every household,
and is purchased IN car lots by very
many industrial concerns through
out the South and in large quantities
by wholesale grocers. / regard the
time as being most suspicious for
new enterprise, since prices are such
as to insure large and remunerative
profits, and are being sustained by a
very strong cOmbina ion in the
North, now capitalized at twelve
millions of dollars. Originally from
Kentucky, and having been fifteen
years connected with various plants
of this kind, / feel very sure of any
statement | may make, since | have
personally designed, and at different
times operated, five of the most sue
cessful plants of the kind now in OPP
peration. i am prepared to produce
incontrovertible evidence as to char
acter and ability to perform all !
claim by letters from business men
in New York, Philadelphia, Chica-
go, Indianapolis and Franklin, Ind.
Will you kindly state, If you can,
about the average price of corn in
GAINESVILLE and the quantity that
could be purchased there, and if from
wagons or railroad. Will you also
state the freight rates prevailing
from there to points further South,
and also to Louisville, Ky. Ii you
have macadamized or other metal
roads will you please so state. II
you can make any statements regard
ing the quality of the water and the
quantity l should appreciate it. Are
your people progressive, and are
they inclined to look with favor on
a manufacturing industry"
Mr.. Howell turned this letter over
to Matt Gracey, who answered it
fully, giving statistics of the corn pro
duction, etc. And one point in the
enquirer's letter which people should
not lose is: "Have you macada-
mized roads? ?" TO this answer Mr..
Howell has the following reply:
Mr.. A. H0weH, GarksUHle, Tenn.
DEAR SIR: / have your favor of
February "a and certainly thank you
and Mr.. Gracey for favors extended.
l desire to establish south of the line
a legitimate and well paying indus
trial enterprise not yet introduced
there, and have selected Clarksville
as point that would be acceptable
in every way at which TO locate.
Your letter already referred to fully
confirms all previous convictions re
garding essential points, and if the
water does not contain some mineral
or other organic substance, which |
can only be determined by careful |
and intelligent chemical analysis, l |
hope to accomplish something at |
GAINESVILLE. | note also what you |
say regarding your recent bank and |
tobacco failures and also the matter
of subsidy.
If | could put before your people
manufacturing business clean and en-
inently respectable in every particu
lar, and one that will show
beyond any controversy
neat fifteen per cent. as an
annual income on their money,
would they not subscribe to the capt.
tai stock of such business enterprise ?
will state further that said sub,
scribers to said capital stock will con-
troll their money and the business by
4 selection from their number com.
petent person as president and treas
Irer. We would probably use in the
purchase of grounds, buildings, ma
and appliances the sum of
S50 900.
If. your people would consider
avorably such proposition as is
herein outlined, then / would come
n pers on TO GAINESVILLE and lay the
whole matter before them in detail.
would suggest that you see some of [
,our best business men and
write me regarding their feelings on ,