The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-02
HOUSTON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, ioo'
TWELVE PAGES.
SMALL ENTERPRISES.

No city in the South, as The Post has
before taken occasion to say, has been SO
blessed with what are known as small
industries" as Atlanta, Georgia. and,
therefore, no people can speak with
greater confidence and emphasis as to the
value and prohtableness OF such indus
tries, both to their projectors and the pub
lie, than the people OF Atlanta.
While we are just now giving SO much
thought in Texas to industrial develop
ment, the following editorial from re-
cent issue of the Atlanta Constitution
should prove both interesting and profit
ably suggestive TO our people. The Con-
stitutlon, under the title Encourage
Small Industries" remarks;
While talking about $4,000 and 500, 900
plants. let us not forget that 1t Is the small
industry which brings the greatest happl-
ness as we'll as return.
This suggestion comes from n news story
sua;ed in yesterdays Constitution. y which
II is stated that tho Bremen Canning and
Ice company iA the name OF new corpora
ton which has applied for a charter to do
business at Cdrrollton. The names OF the
wine and MI J. +. Ste.l The paid In
capital stock Is $1,000 and the business pro-
posed to I've transacted Is the canning OF
fruits and vegetables and the production OF
Ice and also to operate planning and other
milling interests. Mr. Steel has been fore,
man Of such canning concern for several
years sast at Premen Ca. and has produced
a grade of goods which has reputation
over the country for lts excellence. and a
ready market has always been afforded for
the products practically at home They con.
template getting Ia readiness for this sea
son, Tho canneS at Bremen will still be
operated hy Mr. stool.
It Is the duplication OF iust such plants
Is this. calling for capital OF anywhere
from 500 Ia &Qt1 which will maba Oul
towns and crossroads sectlNns rich, There
is not n reiehhorhood In the country hui
has local wants which some live man Gao
nj, or has some products which some live
LIT VS. not uuetrrate the rmnll wood or root
crops or the thonfSrf little avenues which
open IN to every man who viii but oper
bis cycs md see.
What does your Immediate section pro-
duce in the way OF raw material that YOU
do and must buy back in manufactured
condition from some one else? In prose
cutting intelligentiy and comprehenslvel!
an inquiry of this character 1t is NOR
than probable that almost every com
munity in Texas would discover that
1t could supply It's own wants, in hal
dozen directions and at a comparativel
small investment of local capital, wher
now the finished product ready for con
sumption is purchased from some more en-
terprislng folks al distance.
It is not necessary that we should
have 100000 plants everywhere about u
10 become rich and prosperous as com
munity The idea Is to work up all tn
raw material that is nearest to us. A
the Constitution says, "Let us not under
rate the small wood or root crops, o
the thousand little avenues which ope
up to every man veo will but open hi
eyes and see"
The growing attention to fruit and vege
table farming in Texas furnishes opportu
mites In the way Of canning factorie
second TO those OF no state. Woodenwar
factories on small scale, at first, ant
indeed, variety OF other small indus
tries" might be tried and In the aggrc
gate OF their business and profits an
number OF busy employees, prove equal
as valuable to a locality as a big mill re
quiring many thousands OF dollars OF car
itsl. While the industrial fever is oil
therefore, dent overlook the utility an
practicability OF SMALL enterprises.