The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-07-10

EDITOR HERALD Your remarks in
recent issues in relation to securing a
healthy boom TO our town have been ex-
ceedingly suggestive and valuable. It
seems perfectly clear TO looker-on, some-
what familiar with successful and enduring
booms in similar places, that if the senti-
ment and enthusiasm of the EVENING
HERALD are shared by the citizens gem
orally, great prosperity is not prophetic,
but assured When tho car of progress
begins to move is the moment to put
every shoulder to the wheel and give it
strong push, long push, and push alto
gether.
One special suggestion may be oppor-
tune. A frequent method of inducing
manufacturers to locate in place is to
offer them some Daluabie advantages at the
outset. The purchase of site the erec-
ton of a building, the equipment with
machinery, the purchase of stock for be-
ginning, and similar first steps in a manu-.
featuring enterprise, constitute costly
move. No wonder that with such outlay
confronting them men proceed cautiously,
young firms especially, searching dis
criminatingly before sticking stakes. The
sympathy and substantial aid of com.
munity are helpful at this juncture. A
small advantage will tip the scales just now
and plant the factory in particular town.
A little Indifference and selfshness on the
part OF officials and leading citizens sends
the incipient enterprise to the next town to
locate. A call from the assessor and col
lector ere the fire is built under the boiler
is rather ungracious, and complaint
against the factory as nuisance before the
cornerstone is laid is premature Nor is
the neutrality-suspicious. policy of the
spider good one for town "catch EN-
first fleece en- afterwards don't pay.
The writer knows a firm of carriage man
ufacturers now scarcely second TO any in
the world, who wanted to set up in Ger
tain town. But on proposing to buy "a
plot Of ground favorable TO their purposes,
par. If which was owned by the town and
part by private parties, the price was held
81 high as to driye the manufacturers 70 a
neighboring town where the free use of a
plot for term of twenty years was gem
erously accorded them The former town,
then the larger of the two, is still sleepy
village and the high priced plot is COW
pasture, while the great factory has been
the chief agent in transforming the smaller
village into rich and thriving city.
Another case, known TO the writer, il
suggestive A man owned six acres Of
land at one end of a struggling little city
He laid them of in lots and for several
years tried in vain TO sell them, but'he did
not realize enough to pay the taxes, FL
nslly, he donated two acres to a company
on condition that they es ablish factory
to employ fifty hands. The factory was
started and within twelve months my
friend had sold the balance Of his lots on
some of which he had erected cottages, and
pocketed clear s28, 600.
There is, that saves at the spigot and
wastes at the bunR Now Shenandoah hs.
good deal of vacant territory, situated
most desirably for manufacturing plants
Cannot a company be organized among
our moneyed men who can obtain control
Of some of this territory and offer,
gratuitously or nearly so, building sites to
manufacturers who will locate and operate
in opr town? Are there not several
individuals who can do the same2 Cannot
the town also grant immunity from taxes
to such for term Of years II so, let the
fact be at once widely advertised, so as to
reach the notice of parties who may be on
the watch for just such an opportunity
What others have done we can do
PROGRESSIVE
Shenandoah, July p, 1891.
II every citizen of shenandoah could
see and realize the situation Of affairs in