Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-15
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
A Rare Opportunity for St. Clairs
vile to Secure a Profitable
Industry.

A move is being made by some gentle
men of this place to set up an industry
here which shall pay those engaged in it,
be means of employing some of the
idle capital about the town, and Incl
dentally increase the value of property
and fill some of the vacant houses which
are for rent. Certainly these gentlemen
should he given all possible encourage
ment. The enterprise is entirely feasible.
1t is especially adapted to a town situated
like ST. Clairsville, in the midst of an
agricultural region, where the supply of
small fruits. of vegetables. and of butter
and eggs is practically inexhaustible.
The people of St Clairsville are noted
not only for having money to put into
paying investments, but for the caution
which they exercise in assuring them
selves that those investments are safe
and paying This is eminently proper,
and therefore the plan of y cold storage,
and EGGPLANT, and car merry should
be given the careful consider alton which
it demands.
Heretofore some unreasonable preiu-
dice has existed here against home enter
prises. Many thousands of dollars be-
longing to st. Clairsville people are
invested out of town, and to-day to
secure several thousand dollars it is
only necessary for some man to come
out from Bellaire or Wheeling with a
subscription paper, and proposition to
add another to the unproductive mills or
glass-houses along the river. Why not
put little money in something at home? !?
The protector of this new plan says of it:
"The demand of the times is for
diversified production. The want of the
producer is sure and convenient market.
Many products are very perishable,
such as small fruits and berries,
and must be marketed quickly or lost.
Again other products, such as butter,
eggs and poultry, are low and difficult to
and cheaply produced; namely, in the
summer season; and those, too, are
perishable and require to be marketed
quickly. A full crop of the various small
fruits of recent planting in this county,
with its present market facilities, indi-
Gates extremely low and Improbable
prices. Who does not know that the
very things named are low in the warm
producing season and high in the nom
producing or winter season, and to realize
good profits it is only necessary to put
portion of the summers production on
winter market fresh and sweet.
Invention in this direction has passed
the experimental stage, and now by
mechanical cold storage process, without
ice or moisture. this is not only possible
but assured. Connect with this cold
storage the addition of ice making for
home consumption and a caRnery for
small fruits and vegetables. and it will
give an industry of which any town
might we'll be proud; furnishing a good
and reliable market to the producer,
bringing handsome dividends TO the
stock owners, be the means of giving
employment to labor at fair wages, and
thus inaugurate a new era in the history
OF St. Clairsville."
Let this matter be Investigated by
those who have unproductive money, and
especially by property owners in st.
ClairsYille, who would profit by the in
stitution Of such an enterprise in the
increased value of property. Why send
money away, when you may plat it
right here where it will be under your
own supervision? Farmers, too, should
be interested in plan of this sort as it
would give them sure market for all
their products at all seasons.
Much interest has already been shown
in the enterprise. A fair sum of money
is already in sight, but to insure success
this must be largely increased. The
gentlemen who propose the idea are
ready to explain its points and give all
information to inquirers at any time.