The herald., 1896-06-03
TO MAKE OUR OWN SHOES
The Manufacturers Association c0nsid.
ers the Question Of Capital
Manufacturers Are q Moral Necessity to Sup
ply Work-A Resolution Of sympathy
With st. Louis Sufferers

The regular monthly meeting of the
Manufacturers association was held
last evening at the chamber of COM
merce, Fred l.. Baker, president of the
Baker Iron works. in the chair. The sec
retary, George n. Nolan, reported that
the committees on home industries and
taxation had not yet handed in their
reports. The minutes of the last meet
ing. at which the invitation to join Il
party of manufacturers on three
months trip of inspection of the indus
tries in South American republics,
We're adopted. The names of Hancock
Banning and f. O. Wyman We're incl
dentally mentioned as fitting represent
atives of the association on such trip.
II. w. Colson, president of the Alham-
bra Shoe Manufacturing company, gave
very interesting account of the pos
SibilitieS that lay before this industry
in Southern California, could capital be
interested. He said that $20, ,000. 900 worth
of shoes We're used on the coast every
year and 100000 made. At present the
Alnambra factory was only bringing out
100 pairs day, but had machinery that
could easily turn out 300 pairs day.
which could promptly and well be dis
posed of. All that was lacking was a
comparatively small amount of working
capital. Among his plant was stand
ard screw machine which could turn out
1000 pairs day, and heeling machine
1900 pairs day. Everything here was
favorable to the industry. There was
abundance of skilled help already at
hand and hungry for work.
f. Q. Wyman, president of the Union
Lime company, thought that there
should be no difficulty in attracting cap
ital to such a business like and promis-
ing proposition as Mr. Colson had 20
oIier. In fact he was sanguine of being
able to interest a capitalist in the en-
terDrlSe. IT eyfrqOrIinarv M
reasonable thing that capital in South
ern Callfornla was so callouS of manu-
featuring interests: money was lent
rapidly enough on real estate instead of
commercial paper. Manufactures alone
could supply a moral necessity; to pro-
vide work for the hundreds of young
men that are in search for it. He him
self turned away from fifteen to twenty
bright boys week
In reference to the question of law
out out manufacturing district. Mr..
story vice. president of the national as
sociation. said he believed that tract
of 5000 a A'es at the junction of the Santa
t'e and Southern Pacific, south of the
Nadeau tract, three or four miles from
the city limits. might be available. Mr.
Story believed that timidity as to manu-
factures resulted from many failures in
the past. which We're due to the high
price of fuel till lately The time he
believed, was now ripe for a remarkable
rise of manufacturing industries in this
locality.
The following resolution was offered
by r. w. Pridham and adopted:
Resolved, That the Manufacturers
association of Los Angeles. Cal, hereby
tenders sincere sympathy to the suffer-
ers of the stricken city of st Louis and
of other cities and communities in those
states lying in the track of the terrible
cyclones that have recently caused such
appalling and widespread destruction
and brought death to thousands of peo-
pie. We hereby express our readiness
to join in giving aid to them wherever
we can.
NV prices for WALLPAPER beat all the city