Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-23
A BUSINESS PROPOSITION
BY Charles Miner to the Citizens
of BrattlebOrO.

IfItIs Accepted 100 or More Persons Will
Given Employment---Mr Miner
Wants to Increase ais Hosiery Bush
ness---the Terms of His Agreement.
The business men of Brattleboro will be
given an opportunity at once to contrib
ute toward the establishment of a hosiery
industry in Centrevile to be owned and
carried on by Charles Miner. Mr., Miner,
who already owns an establishment of this
kind in West Brattleboro, giving employ
ment to about 20 persons and manufacture
ing about 90 dozens of pairs of hose daily,
has recently been in New York, where he
disposes of most of his goods. The deal
ers to whom he sells have been buying
portion of their goods elsewhere, but they
have agreed to take their entire stock of
him If he can manufacture hose fast
enough for their trade. They can dispose
of from $50 to 800 dozens of pairs of hose
every day. To manufacture such an
amount of goods would give employment
continuously to from 100 to $50 hands.
Mr.. Miner agrees that If the citizens of
Brattleboro will procure for and deed to
him the Centrevile factory together with
the water power rights connected there
with and all the equipments belonging
thereto, including the safe, and the town
will, by vote, exempt such manufacturing
plant as he shall establish there from taxa
ton for term of five years, he will fur
nish and get sufficient bond, such as
any bank in Brattleboro will approve, in
penal sum equal to the value of the Cen
trevlle factory property, and will employ,
or cause to be employed, in manufacturing
in and about the factory not less than 100
persons continuously for five years.
Mr.. Miner further agrees, and it is to be
included as a condition of his bond, that
he will not directly or indirectly establish,
or cause to be established, or keep, or cause
to be kept, any store or mercantile estao
lishment in connection with said manutac-
turing industry, or for the purpose OF sup
plying help therein employed with general
merchandise or any articles ordinarily kept
for sale in the stores of Brattleboro.
1t would appear from Mr. Miners agree.
ment that the citizens of Brattleboro would
be peri city safe in contributing toward
the carrying out of the enterprise,for if any
part of the agreement is not fulfilled they
would have Mr.. Miners bond to fall back
upon. In agreeing not to establish mer-
camille estabishm mt for supplying his EN-
ployes Mr.. Miner not only manifests his
good faith, but he removes f. ature which
in many instances causes merchants TO re-
frain from contributing toward the support
of new business enterprises.
Mr.. Miner states that il the factory is
decided to him according to the terms OF
his agreement he will put it into first-cas:
condition, which would probably involve
an outlay of from $500 to $1,000. He will
also construct dam across the brook il
the rear of the mill and will put in a water
wheel. In his factory at West Brattebor'
he has a 12-borse power engine which
would furnish sufficient power for runnin!
the knitting machines when water powe
was not available and would run his elec
trio dynamo for lighting the factory.