Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-19
A CANNING FACTORY.
Clarksville offered Very I'M
portant Enterprise.
For $4,000 a Kansas City Comps ny Of
fers to Put in Operation Factory
that VIII Turn Out l 6, 900 Cans
Of Fruit, Etc, Per Day.

There ia always some good thing
coming to Clarksvillle, aud Our pto-
! pie are generally smart enough to
see the "pint' and "catch on"
Not long since the l., & N com
pay proposed to build the Mineral
railroad if we would give the enter
prise $4,000. We gave it, and now
have the rO"d and great irou fur
mace ready to start az soon as i can
be stocked. This is blessing which
the town would not take hail mil
lion for and be set back to the start.
ing point, agreeing to have nothing
OF the kind.
Later, two strangers came here for
the purpose ofmoving large amount
of timber from this county 10 be
manufactured at another place, but
agreed to move their factory here If
they were reimbursed for part Of the
.oss in moving. We gave them $4,000
and the factory is here, and this has
proven splendid investment, which
the city would not have moved away
for double that sum.
Now we have with us Mr.. n. s.
St0rr5, general agent for the famous
Plunmer Manufacturing Compauy,
OF Kansas City, engaged in establish
ing canning factories, who proposes
60 put up II factory in this piacs And
when our people come to know his
proposition, know the charac'er Of
machinery the company puts up, the
character and demsnd for the goods
made by the Piummer factori y, the
large profits in canning, an the
blessings such factory bring, to
town, the trade aud the country all
around, if they don't take hold of it
in half the time it took Sam Jones to
turn the town over, then we shall
think this is one of the times Clarks-
vile failed to see the "pint."
Mr.. S!orrs proposes to.put up fac
tory here with a capacity for $4,000
cans of fruit and vegetables per day
for 5000, guaranteeing perfect satis-
faction before the money is paid.
This factory will employ two hun
dred women, girls and boys, who
will be able to earn from so ceuts tO
81 per day. And by the way, it is
very neat, light work, in which any
lady will find both pleasure and
profit, with creditable employment.
Moreover the company furnishes an
experienced manager to take charge
of the enterprise, and they guaran-
tee its successful operation, and this
is about all the skilled labor that is
required. The company also looks
after the market and gives directions
as to selling, etc.
The list Of goods canned b. this
modern factory embraces tomatoes,
green corn, green peas, green beans,
potatoes and all small fruits. The
farmers can make from $l00 t. $3.50
per acre on tomatoes and swee. pota-
toes; $35 per acre for average good
corn $40 per acre for peas and beans
from 800 to 5000 per acre for straw
berries, raspherries, grapes, etc. The
factory will run from the time early
vegeta tle& come in until the last fall
"tater' is in the cup, and the ripe
'pOssums safely canned. 1t has the
"git up-aud git'' about it and makes
everybody hustle. 1t gets fine dresses
for the iris, redtop boots and pop
guns for the boys, a woolen gown for
mother. 1t puts money in cjfcula.
ton, makes merchants happy and
the people prosperous and Iniepen
dent. What more can people who are
not contending for the whole earth
expect? Let us have this canning
factory before Mr.. Storrs leaves here,
or he will set it up in some other
town.
Understand that this il to be a
stock company, and every subscriber
will be entitled to the full earnings
Of his stock--uo donation The
Plummer Company retains no stock
in 1t, and gets nothing out of it ex-
cept the profits on machinery sold,
which is guaranteed. Mr.. Storrs will
be able to assure the subscribers that
the factory will pay its cost the first
year.
Anything better than this, "bud ?"