Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1906-04-28
MICA FACTORY STARTS WORK
Tuesday, May First, Will Give Birth
to the New Enterprise.

Tuesday, May First, Will Give Birth
to the New Enterprise.
'To be or not to be, that is the ques-
tion," the residents of Custer and sur
rounding towns have been discussing
for the past few weeks, the forepart of
which time indicated the later, but
thanks to the untiring efforts of the Gus.
ter City Commercial Club we can now
safely say that on Tuesday, May the
First, the citizens of this town will
witness the launching of a new enter
prise for this part of the country, al.
though it IL the second of its kind, con-
troled by the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company, the larg-
est electrical concern in the world.
few years ago the above company
started operating in small building in
Ottawa, Canada, year after found the
business doubled and today they are oc-
cupying two buildings and employing
five hundred and seventy-fve girls and
boys where only a short time before
they had started with less than seventy.
This is mentioned to show the people OF
this community that business has been
started amongst them not to last for a
day, week or month, but a business
directed by business men in business
methods aud not only, last az long as
mica can be found in the Hills, but TO
increase as it grows older until they
have duplicated their Ottawa works ,yif
not exceeded it, and it rests entirely
with the citizens of this entire cOmmun.
ity as to how rapidly the infant az ii
were natures and adds one more round
to the ladder Of property that is being
built by mother Nature. Why should
the people of these Hills lie dormant
aud allow the advantages which come TO
their very doors to 90 by ungrasped? I?
WHY does the capitalist always shower
his improvements in the east when the
west has an unlimited amount of wealth
buried in her soil? Answer Yourself
these questions. 1t is because this coun-
try has not as yet been represented in
its true light among the eastern money
markets. II is true that there are large
concerns now operating in this vicinity
but do their workings give comparison
of the richness of these Hills We DO
not mean to iDsinuate that because the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacture
ing Company has started operating that
they will attain this end, but we do wish
to say that as that popular song goes,
every little bit helps" and so it is, that
the retaining and encouraging of such
concerns will gradually draw the inter-
est OF others, and it is only in this man
ner that the future Of this glorious west
can be made prosperous.
As this is getting somewhat away from
our main topic, and is also leading TO
a question that would require more space
than this article was intended to occupy
ii is best that We set it aside for the
present
it may be stated thatthe company will
only be able to accommodate a limited
number at the present time, probably 80
or 90, and alter these gain experience in
the work about the same number will
be added, and so on from time to time,
until about 100 or so are employed The
company will erect an adequate build
ing to accommodate between $50 and
10. Special attention has been given
every care wil be exercised in main
tanning as modern works as can be
found anywhere
With what has been published in the
preceding issues Of this paper, together
with what is now given, We hope the
people of this community will respond
by uniting in their efforts to supply suf
tCient help To meet requirements Boys
and girls of IA years or over will be em
ployed. If not convenient TO Custer all
information can be secured by writing
to Commercial Club of Custer or West
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.
of the same city.