Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-03
INDUSTRIES THAT COULD Sue
CEED HERE.

established in Americas on small
scale are the industries that are need
ed to supply local demands, that Is,
the demand of this and the adjacent
counties.
There are several industries Of this
class that do not require extensive
plants, do not necessitate heavy in
yestments, nor require large power FOR
their operation.
Industries that can be installed in
rented quarters, the machinery for
which is not costly nor extensive,
whose output finds a ready and con-
slant sale, and whose employees are
skilled men securing good wages,
these are TIE industries that the de-
yeloDment company proposes to seek
for Americas.
To begin with, a wood working plant
that met the demands of the farmers
for territory of within fifty miles Of
the city would hardly fail to be a sue
cess with an experienced man in
charge of It. The quantity of the
products of such factory that are
used year after year in southwestern
Georgia would easily consume the out
put of small factory at this point.
Why rot have. one here, then? The
investment would not be great.
A factory turning out crates and
cans for the fruit growers of this :sec-
ton is also an industry that promises
we'll Why should this section get
its crates from Florida and its cans
from Baltimore? There is no reason
for It, in all likelihood, except the
lack of enterprise on our part Such
an industry would be exceptionally
well located at this point.
Soap IS another article Of daily con,
sumption and persistent demand. The
common kitchen variety of soap can
be made here just as well as. in cities
hundreds of miles away from here. 1t
4 requires no vast plant, no army of en-
ployes, no enormous capitalization to
turn out a satisfactory cheap article in
that line. Is there any reason why a
small soap factory with several men
at work should not be a success here?
Mattresses are used all over this
section, of course, from the cheap corn
hush variety to the finest made of cot
ton batting They can be turned out
here just as well as at any point a
thousand miles away. We have the
cotton here we have all of the other
articles that are needed, the ticking
can be bought just as cheap by an Am
CIRCUS manufacturer as by one n
North Carolina. The output of a
small factory, employing say half doz-
en- to ten men, ought to command a
ready sale hereabouts. The develop
ment company would certainly seek to
have one here.
Tie creamery should be started up
again, with parties in charge who will
conduct a dairy farm in connection
with it. We all know that it's butter
would find ready daily sale, that
there would be handsome profits in it..
The development company would make
it one Of it's first objects to get in
touch with competent men to take
hold Of this enterprise, now in state
of coma.
! A small steam bakery would not
need to go outside of Americas and a
few adjacent towns to find plenty to
keep it going. It should not only make
good bread but it should have a com
petent candy maker in its service and
its output should include ice cream. a
half dozen men would be employed in
such a concern. Americas can have
it if it goes after it in the right way.
The development company can have a
plant of this type in operation within
three to four months
The broom factory, of course, would
pay. All it needs is the encourage
ment and assistance that the develop,
ment company would give it, Next
year it should have half dozen to a
dozen men at work. If everybody in
Americas helps the development COM
Dany in its plans the broom factory
will be doing a splendid business in
I1911.
Here are seven industries that could
be established and conducted success
fully here, that would in a year or two
probably employ between fifty and one
hundred white men, at good wages,
with weekly pay roll of $1,000 or
more. They would be industries that
would steadily progress that might
lexpand into large factories, with pay
rolls running well into the thousands
of dollars weekly in the course of a
few years.
Their are other small industries that
would suggest themselves once the de-
velopment company got to work. The
thing to do now is to insure the sue
cess of the small industries movement
by helping to start the development
company, by taking it up, by subscrib-
ing for its stock, by showing that you
have a genuine and enthusiastic inter
est in the development of the city
along these lines.
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