The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-02
SALEM's INDUSTRIES.
The Queen City Holds Her
Own.

TIE TINES reporter was talking yes
terday with a gentleman whose bust
ness Qife insurance. takes HIM fire.
quently over the Norfolk and Western
railroad between Roanoke and Bristol.
and Roanoke and Hagerstown. Anxious
, this town like a book, would compare
Salon with other places he visited the
reporter asked him the question and re-
ceived substantially about the following
answer:
"In none of them are there as many
enterprises in such successful operation
as there are here. Salem is doing we'll;
just consider what she has got First
the furnace, which has been in blast
continuously since it was started last
October, and which, with recent re-
auctions in the prices OF ores, coke and
freights, is now certainly not losing
cent and must be making profit, es-
pecially when making a run of nearly
one thousand tons in seven days as they
did last week.
Then look at the Steam Tannery.
working from the start at n profit, pay
ing regular wages to nearly fifty en-
ployes and scattering thousands of
dollars through this section for tan
bark, whilst, am told, that Messrs
Leas and McVitty are now enlarging
their buildings and adding TO their ma
chinery. And how about the WOODEN
mills and clothing factory, finding work
for all the men and women they can
engage, shipping pants, shirts and
NV hn thr,, md i ~
orders for goods for three months ahead?
What brighter prospect could the most
sanguine ask?
And thaGsplendid industry, the Chad
wick Two wheeler, at present employ
ing forty highly skilled mechanics I'M
der one of the most thorough superin-
tendents in the country Mullins, of
Chicago), all busily engaged in getting
out work of the best finish, for which
cash is received as fast as it can be
shipped and with all the world for a
market. Why, now that they have gone
into the manufacture of four-wheeled
vehicles,as we'll as their own specially,
there is no end to the business they will
soon be doing.
las to the CorbettMill Supply Factory,
its phenomenal growth from less than
dozen mechanics in January to forty in
May, working till midnight, and with so
many customers to supply tn at they will
be compelled to erect additional build.
1ngs, establishes it at once as one of the
best and safest en- terprises in the South
west. The Salem Wagon Works also.
with often from fifty to eighty wagons
behind its orders, and hustling drum
mer on the road all the time pushing its
work, must eventually bring it to the
very front rank.
Then you have the Salem Carriage
Works, ceiling its special delivery
wagons from Bristol to Norfolk, and
getting good name on every one, it
will get there, mark my words. And of
course one must not overlook the Cam
den Iron Works, the planning mills, the
ice plant and other smaller enterprises
all employing labor, all actually at
work, and not on paper. or without CAPT
tai to run them, all bringing in money
outside and all on the high road to sue
cess and managed by conservative. in
telligent and energetic men. Depend
upon it, my friend, Salem has bright
future, and you can put her.down as a
solid manufacturing town. BY the way,
Mr.. Allemong informs me that he is now
in correspondence with three or four
other industries, and assuredly hopes
to locate at least one before long.
"The great trouble with your people
seems TO me to be that they are all too
impatient. consider that you not only
are doing we'll, but that Salem has
done wonders siuce she awoie in Dec
ember olsso. But, my friend, | have
to take the train for the West and so
must say adieu." And with that the
reporter was left alone with his notes