The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-18


famine. It is impossible to get freight
cars sufficient to enable the coal opera
tors to fill all th6ir orders.
notwithstanding the short time the
Development Company has been at work
it has already located two glass factories,
both OF which are now in operation on
the company's new addition, with. as
many orders for their product as they
can fill, One OF these works manufac-
lures cut glass and tumblers, the other
fruit Jars and bottles. Another glass
company dealres to locate here. dom !
know lust what arrangements we will
make with it. Our excellent shipping
facilities and cheap fuel enable us to OIL
fer extraordinary inducements to manu-
featuring enterprises"
TIN PLATE MILL.
"What of the future%
"The outlook is very encouraging"
replied Secretary Mckinney. 1--WE are
receiving many inquiries from manu-.
facturers who desire TO locate here. l
have lust returned from Massachusetts
whore we are negotiating with an ex-
tensiye mandatory OF fire arms to To-
cate on our property. II is one oil the
best known works OF the kind in the
country. think we will get the con-
cern. We are also in correspondence
with a firm OF iron founders. Their
proposition is to establish large stove
works here. Our fame is also spreading
abroad. Here is the evidence OF what
We are doing"
As Mr. Mckinney uttered this last
sentence he showed me letter from an
English syndicate with which he is
negotiating for the removal OF large
tin plate factory from Wales to Fair
mont. The letter, which is signed by
one OF the best known firms in Great
Britain, but which Iam not at liberty
10 publish at this time, states that the
tin plate people desire twenty acres OF
land on which to build their factory
and thirty acres for dwellings for their
workmen, and submits number OF
inquiries regarding freight rates, cost
of fuel, &C., all Of which Mr.. Mckinney
said he believed he could answer satis-
factorily. The firm agrees to pledge 1T
self to employ $50 persons at the start
and 1000 to 1000 persons in two or
three years.
There is little doubt that the arrange
ment will be made and that Fairmont
will soon have one OF the greatest tin
plate factories in the country, and be
one OF the first towns TO realize that,
after all, the tin plate schedule OF the
Mckinley bill.isn't the farcical affair
that Mr.. William L. Wilson and our
other Democratic anti-protectionists de-
clare it is. l incidentally referred to
this fact to Mr.. Mckinney, who, by the
way, is a Democrat, and one OF Mr.;
Wilson's chief supporters. He smiled
as he good-humoredly replied:
"If we can get this tin plate mill
we are going to have 1t, politics or no
politics. Fairmont is forging ahead in
the industrial line. We are building
factories and we intend to build more.
Everybody here Is prosperous and
happy and there is work for all comers.
| don't say the protective tariff makes
it possible, though acknowledge these
Industries are protected by the tariff.
It is business with us and we are not
mixing it with our politics. Demo-
Gratis and Republicans are together in
LIllS ulONeIuGut SuI LiSt PuA pSoS AS W
build manufacturing city here in this
region Of inexhaustible resources.
When We are successful, as we surely
will be, people can form their own
judgments about whether We can or
cannot afford to do without the pro-
tective tariff. / have my own theories
on this point, and they are not quite so
radically free trade as those of Henry
Watterson and few others who would
wipe out every vestige OF protection"
have only outlined some OF the
things that are being done in thisgrow.
ing city which depend on protected
Industries for its support. | might tell
OF the fact that 175 houses have been
built since the boom began, OF the work
Of paving the streets, the establishment
Of water works and electric lights, of
the railway operations, OF the new road
that is to give q through connection
with Pittsburg, Of the new mining OPP
erations in contemplation, etc, but
this is enough for once. G. A. D. :