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A FACTORT FOR SALEM.An Opportunity for the Capital Oity to 8ocure a Plow Factory.For some days ilion* have been | murmuring* in Hie air about the | poeelbllity of Salem securing a atove - j ami plow lactory. On investigation I k Tiik. JoUBNaI. flutU that a well lua-! lured plan Inis been formulated ami | Is bached by good meu. Oue of the f |Nti lies at the head of this movement ] lea Salem initu of good business and I nieehanlcnl reputation, Mr. John 1 Patterson. lie conducted success- 1 fully about fifteen years ago a small ■ stove factory In Salem, lielng the i head of the firm of Patterson A J ■ Devul, whose business burned out. , He has worked in the business nearly , 35 years and is confident that a • i- good and paying establishment ] ■- could Is* worked up here on on extended scale.Mr. Patterson was seen yesterday by a reporter and tielow Is given an i outline ef bis project: He says a‘ fouudry and shop could tw marled in Ibis place for the manufacture of H I chilled plows and plow [mints, also e stoves, hollow ware, and all kinds of I castings. I am corresponding with a mail In the East who Is a thorough man 111 the chlllled plow business,. and the balance of our company are skillled workman lu the different brandies of the bussiuese.” In e order to siart such a business these- v men want the citizens of Salem to I 1 guarantee them ffitKiti, and I wo good c M building lots, in addltloii to which s e they agree to expend $10,000. 1Mr. Patterson further savs: You g s can hunlly eel I mule the amount of t I money expended by the people of n I Oregon for the plows tliui till our I soil. The market Is a big one, and I a good business can easily be worked I i up. VVe could employ from 16 to I 1 3d men from the time we started up, r r bnd we should only go into it with t a hope ol hulliliitg up a much larger t business. As for myself mid one of the company, I cun say we maiiti- » , factured the llrst stoves that stood the lest In I his slate, and the llrst lt;lea kettle ever made on this coast.• Tide we can substantiate by referring auy one to David MeCully and a others who are well known in our city. If the people of Salem will J I give us u chance we will sturt n ' a mauufsotory here that the city of Salem can in- proud of in future» 5Tills Is certainly a proposition that ‘ our people should take an Interest in. Mr. Patterson will submit Ills ( 1 plans to the Salem bourd of trade iu the near future, and the same will * 1 no doubt lie favorably acled upon. 1 Manufacturing of any kind should ' I ls eucoUMged now and all the time by our citizens. It is the menus of building up a city as uoihlug elm cau he, and our people should thor- J oughly look lulu ibis matter with ii view to locating this factory here as 1 t soon as possible.
Newspaper Details
Capital Evening Journal
Salem, Oregon, US
Fri, Jun 10, 1892
Page 3
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