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tober next.A NEW PROJECT.Mesarfl. Buckmnster Wise are making ortensivo preparations for tbe manufacture of brooms by tbe convicts in our State Penitentiary. Mr. Spencer, of Ohio, has been employed to superintend tbe -work. Tbeyhare already purchased two tana of broom-' corn, from which they will be able to manufacture 2,666 brooms, allowing one and a half pound of materia! to one broom. They are making arrangements with neighboring farm era to raise broom-corn tbe coming season, and offer $50 per tun for the material of ter the seed is removed,the purchasers to remove tbe seed and take it as a compensation for their labor. It is said to make a good article of feed when ground. They wish to secure two bandied and fifty tun3of material, which, reckoning as above, willbe sufficient to manufacture 333,333 broomi. These, at 15 cents each, will amount to $50,-000. They will probably manufacturethe handles, as they have the necessary machinery. Lind, and if practicable, cotton wood, will be used for handles, as suchtimber grows in this vicinity.Some of the manufacturing in the penitential has been a cause of complaint on the part of mechanics in our city, becaoBe of the competition which they are oallod uponto contend with in consequence, We think this new enterprise is calculated to^ show that tbe warden of the penitentiary is desirous to avoid such a state of things, and that while, as in! dnty bound, he endeavors to avail himself of the bueiness advantages which he possesses, he is willing, as fax as lies In his power, to protect the interests ofiour city. ___; ';AI:AA
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Alton Weekly Courier
Alton, Illinois, US
Thu, May 04, 1854
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