Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-03-07
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In connection with outside public
ity 1t may interest you to know how
I this question OF getting outside at
tention has worked out In Cedar Rap
ids. While I have not been actively
Engaged In peYspapeEr work for Over
two yearsIlI still have three -or four
daily papers to which send news
concerning events of our town. Just
as matter Of curiosity figured up
the other d6y the amount OF stun l
had sent out and was astounded to
find that If all the news items and
stories printed in the few papers
represent had been assembled tho
aggregate matter used last year would
have filled twenty page newspaper,
seven columns to the page, without
a bit of display advertising nothing
hut matter pertaining to Cedar Rap
ids. And this does not include the
large amount of news sent out by
perhaps half dozen other CORES
pondents in Cedar Rapids. One news
paper man there of my acquaintance
REGULARLY sends stories to the New
York Herald all of which bear the
Cedar Rapids date line.
The National Magazine OF Boston
has SIGHTED its willing ness to use an
article explaining our Cedar Rapids
plan of adjusting wage disputes be-
tween capital and labor
Every town the size Of Manchester
realizes the necessity Of factories and
similar Industries as an incentive for
PEOPLE to locate in such towns. Man
chester is peculiarly we'll situated for
attracting industrial enterprises of ev-
cry character. You have excellent
railroad facilities, plenty Of power and
everything else that factory promot-
Ors insist upon. notice by the pa
pers here that this club has been Hirt-
ing with condensed milk factory in
Minneapolis. Manchester would be an
ideal location for such plant, situat-
ed as it is in the heart of the dairy
belt of the middle west. Here are q
few arguments in your favor which
should appeal to the financiers Of the
proposed milk factory:
The freight rate on tin cans from
Chicago. where most of such product
ID manufactured, to Manchester is only
twenty-three cents per hundred in
car load lots. The freight rate on
steam coal from the southern Illinois
district is 81. As to $2.O3 IL per ton;
that is, $1.46 from the territory around
I.aSalle, ILL.,, $1.76 from the Spring
field district with the higher rate from
the territory farther south. The rate
on condensed milk from Manchester
to Chicago in car load lots is 1Sc per
hundred, to st. Louis 19c, to st. Paul
tic, etc. The rate from Manchester
to the Missippi river on eastern, ship
ments such as Cleveland, Cincinnati
and other metropolitan centers is &c
per hundred in car load lots. Man.
chester offers just as good induce
ments in these respects to factories as
does Cedar Rapids or similar other
cities in Iowa.
The little town of Newton, Iowa, is
an illustration of what can be done
In the way of, factory growth. In
1910 Newton had a population Of 1916;
in 1915 it had Sligo. A live CONNER
cial club was organized there some
time ago and Newton now has IS fac
tories, some of them of considerable
shipping goods all over
the country and to some of the for
eign points. I am told it has been
very hard to rent any sort Of a desir-
able house in that town because every
time new factory was established it
brought an attendant increase in pop
ulatiOn.
In conclusion, let me say that a