The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-06-16

presume, by a Canadian. ar Il bears
the name Of Ontario expect he ran
short Of funds and could 90 no
further, for I can think Of no other
reason that would have led him 70
cast anchor there He had to get
busy, and being n blacksmith, conceiv-
ed the idea Of making electric fat
irons, and with one man for helper
in a little seven BY nine shop he made
start. From that small beginning
eighteen years ago. there is today a
plant covering a whole block and on
the payroll the names Of nearly 1000
employees.
Other industries have followed and
the town has now grown to be a city
Of nearly eight thousand population
with fine churches, schools, hotels and
banks that would be a credit to any
city: and high school among the best
in the state. All the material that
enters into the manufacture at this
plant has to be shipped in, and the
iron and steel comes from long dis
tance far 20 the east, while the local
demand for the completed product
outside Of Los Angeles and a few
other large towns, is very much lin
tied. as this immediate country that
is habitable, is comparatively small,
the Pacific Ocean lying to the West
Mexico to the south, and thousand
miles Of sparsely settled mountains
and deserts TO the north and east;
hence a market has TO be found in the
Eastern States and in foreign coun-
tries. Therefore shipping in and
shipping out must necessarily pile up
freight bills, yet ii is paying propo-
sition and making money for the own
ers, besides giving employment to a
thousand people representing prob
ably from three hundred to five hun
dred families.
See what plant could do for a
town Of Vermont, and there is not
railroad town in that state that has
not equally as good natural advan-
tages and facilities as any location in
southern California, except in the saw
ing Of coal during the winter months
and that would probably be doubly
overbalanced in the saving on freight
bills.
When we consider the fact that half
the population of the United States Is
east Of the eastern line Of Indiana
then we can but realize the great ad-
vantage a manufacturing plant Of any
kind that hs TO depend on homes and
/ hoscwives for support, would have in
thickly populated section, over one
in a sparsely settled country.
presume many families in Yer
mont are now using fiatirons, toasters
and other electrical appliances made
at this Ontario plant. II Vermont
would forge ahead and not fall back
ward, she must become a manufaetur-
ing state TO a greater extent than at
present. She possesses many natural
advantages for such purposes as are
found in other localities.
Then again, there are other sources
of wealth and enterprise in the allur-
| ing beauty and charms Of her grand
old mountains and silvery lakes nest
led among the green hills, not found
elsewhere in America, yet untold and
unsung and hardly known or appreci'
ated even by her own people. ! doubt
II half the people Of Orleans county
ever saw Lake Willoughby, a beauty
spot Of unsurpassed loveliness, and
vet they will travel three thousand
miles to visit sections Of country that
do not compare in scenic beauty with
that found nearer home. simply be
cause they are continually boosted and
advertised.
/ b. o. Smith Of Orleans, while 90
journing in Florida. struck the key
note when he recommended ADNER'
1 Using, that the world might know
what Vermont possesses Of real beau
" and attractiveness. Nothing pays
like printers ink. That is exactly
what has built up southern California
and Florida. II drew thousands OF
eastern people into Kansas in an early
day. II Mount Mansfield but had
trolley line TO is summit and fine
hotel on top. il would rival NJ. Lowe
q southern California in attractive
allurements.
j The people Of southern California
F are enterprising. They spent millions
on highways and other public i'm
i prowments, and get il all back out Of
. the eastern tourists who are respond
ing 20 the lure of the attractive ard
continually before their eyes II
would make an easterner's eyes bulge
70 So SOW they sling printers ink II
boosting southern California