Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-18

western states and that the attendance Of
people from these states will be very large
at the fair Hence II Nebraska manufac-
turers do not make exhibits they will miss
a splendid opportunity to attract the attcn-
ton OF the people to whom they desire TO
sell thcirRoods.
Mir uulse of the f.. NJ Hulse Company.
calls attention to the fact that other cities
arc making great efforts TO secure manu-
featuring industries while Omaha is prac-
tically doing nothing of the kind. These
cities are not looking for wind broken con
Germs, but FOR those that have already
good business built up. He has letters from
different cities Offering To give his firm
plant and other inducements II they would
leave Omaha. " is presumed that other
firms in the city have received similar offers.
The Omaha Consolidated Electrical com
pany has applied for membership in the Man
ufacturcrs' association.
The Cunning County Advertiser published
at West Point, says: Why can't we do
something to boom our town. Why can't we
get factories like other cities and towns of
this statel For illustration, Nebraska City
Just put in operation a starch factory, Ban
croft a plow factory, Gothcnburg lead pipe
factory, iron boiler works and an oat
meal mill, Fremont has a twine fac
tory, Norfolk machine shops and Il
sugar factory, O'Neill chickory factory,
and in this manner we might continue
almost indefinitely showing the plums which
are daily being gathered by towns in Ne
braska that haven't onc-tenth the natural
advantages of which West Point is pos.
sessed. With our magnificent water power
and our rich productive soil as inducements
to eastern capitalists, our city should be
teeming with industries; everything should
be alive with business interests, and general
! thrift and prosperity should prevail Let
| everything possible be done this winter To
! secure industries for this city.
When The BEE commenced over year ago
| to agitato the subject of manufacturing in
! Nebraska IL is said that DIR. Mercer looked
! over the field to find an opening where he
! might do his part toward the developing of
| home industries. Like every one else who
| has given the subject careful attention he
came to the conclusion that there We're any
number of good opportunities to build
| up profitable manufacturing business
in Nebraska, but as he could not undertake
them all he selected n branch in which he
has always taken deep interest. The re
suit was the formation of the firm of Mercer
Whitmorc Il Co., manufacturing chemists
DIR. Whitmore and A. H. Johnson, formerly
| of Detroit look after the practical part OF
the business, while George w. Mercer repre-
sents his fathers interest in the busi
ness. The new firm has hardly
got started vet, but they have commenced
manufacturing and by the middle of next
month will be in full blast They now have
eighteen people on their pay roll but as soor
as the machinery is all in operation they
will have to increase the number to seventy
ratus for the manufacture of about every
form of preparation in which medicines ar,
now exhibited, tablets and lozenges o
all kinds pills both sugar and gelatin
coated, tinctures, fluid extracts, alkaloids
eliXirs, etc. A visit to this factory will dis
close many interesting things. There ar,
the great bales and bundles of crud,
drugs in their original packages
just as the are shipped from th'
various foreign countries where they are OBJ
tanned. There is no establishment of this
kind west of Detroit. Indianapolis and Gin
cinnati. Even Chicago cannot boast of such
II manufacturing enterprise Besides EN-
ploying large number of people this
factory may lead to the introduction
of Il new industry for the farm
ers of the state. There are
good many commodities used in the prepara
tion of drugs that are indigenous to the stat,
or can be grown here. Among those easil,
obtainable in the state are corn, silk, slip
perry elm, golden seal, chicory, hemp, broom
corn seed, castor beans, etc.