Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-03-11

will benefit the town not only di.
rectly but indirectly. IL will enable
the farmers TO quit so much cotton,
and find market for other things,
more profitable TO grow. A cannery
will not only enable them 70 pro-
duce stuff TO be canned but great
quantities to he shipped. A can
merry will directly help the country
surrounding, and anything that
builds up the farmers will thereby
indirectly help the town. II We
build up vegetable and fruit grow
ing, ten acres Of our territory will
be equal in support Of a town to
one hundred acres in cotton If
we are 20 lose some Of our present
trade territory, we ought 70 build
up what is left to a higher state of
profitable production. Encourage
ment Of diversified farming will do
this.
/ speak Of the relative merits Of
simple manufacturing on the one
hand with diversified farming on
the other, from experience and OBJ
servaiion in other states IS well as
in Texas. The town of Tyler, Texas,
is an example. Her enterprising
citizens, ten or twelve years ago,
took great notion to build up
their city by building factories.
They invested in a $4,000 rolling
mill; they built furniture factory;
they built $1,000 tannery. The
rolling mill has been idle three
fourths Of the time, because IL
didn't pay, and | believe it is now
dismantled; the tannery has long
since ceased to exist, and have
not heard Of the furniture factory
in years. These enterprises were
much Wanted at the time they
were built, but have come TO
naught. On the other hand, few
OF aer citizens and many of her
farmers were all the while peg
ing away at the humble business
Of notwithstanding fruits and
vegetables, building small Gamer
les, etc, and now the small things
have become great, aud Tyler
i known far and wide on account
Of her fruits and vegetables, her
big shipments Of produce 10 north
ern markets. See last Sundays
Houston Post, with its whole page
about Tyler, for yeriiication OF
what | say.
If Bryan invests 100000 in a
cotton factory, it will strain her
every resource to raise il, and she
will be unready to avail herself Of
any smaller enterprises for years.
If she invests $4,000 in a csnnery,
il will be a comparatively easy task
and the many benefits arising will
not necessarily come single handed.
Farming lands will be enhanced
in value, because immigrants TO
Texas who seek a place to engage
in the highest type Of farming
namely, diversified farming-will
come to Bryan, where the facilities
exist TO make it profitable.
A cotton factory is q big thing,
but many think it is out Of our
reach, and /, for one, think there
is another thing which, considering
our surroundings, would be bet
ter thing, as well as something
practicable, and that is canning
factory. We have hundreds of
farmers already enlisted in truck
farming, and hundreds more wait
ing anxiously for a cannery at
Bryan that they may go into it
with better show of success. Not
only this, but these farmers have
pledged themselves to take 1865 of
stock, and this can easily be in.
creased to $1,000.
If we get a 100000 cotton mill
il will be a dead lift by the town
alone To raise the money. IL we
build a canning factory, we have
The country enlisted with the town,
and the country and the town both
will build up together.
Another thing about cottonl
mills il that, as yet, there is one big
element Of doubt as to their paying
in Texas, and that is the labor
problem. Texas is not in the con
lition of some Of the older states
Is to labor. Labor is higher here.
Other Texas towns are preparing to
est the matter Of a cotton mill as
1 paying proposition. The prob
EN- will be solved by them in two
,r three years. We might wait
ust a little while and see what
hese other towns do. Meantime
we can 90 ahead This year with our
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