Capital in Cloth–How Uncle Sam Helps Linen-Makers–The Mistake of Stocking Manufacturers–5,000,000 Sales if the Maker will get the Right Thing–Better than Starch?–A Chance to Become a Millionaire–Another Eli Whitney Wanted–Go South and Get Rich–Secrets About Silk Manufacture–Startling Suggestions About a New Process of Making Wool.
In the supplies for making material and within the enchancment of clothes there may be a limiteless area for improvement and fortune. Here are just a few of the roads wherein capital might profitably transfer:
813. LINEN MILLSThe schedule of the brand new flax tariff was framed particularly to guard linen producers by cheapening the imports of the uncooked materials in order that they will compete with overseas rivals. Money put into linen mills must reap a bountiful harvest throughout the subsequent few years.
814. TRIPLE KNEE STOCKINGWhy don’t stocking makers give further energy to the elements that are the primary to wear down? Five million girls and boys on this nation are carrying their knees via their stockings and but makers go on within the assumption that the faster the wear and tear the higher the commerce. It stays for some sagacious producer to place a double or triple thickness on the knee, get a repute for his stocking, and command the market.
815. THE UNFRAYABLE COLLAR BANDShirts, completely sound elsewhere, go into the rag-bin as a result of the collar band is frayed. The man who will give us an alternative to starch, which does all of the mischief, will earn each gratitude and dollars.
816. THE RAMIE PLANTA few years in the past the ramie plant was launched into this nation from China. It was reported to yield three crops a 12 months, a complete of 1,500 kilos to the acre, and that the fiber would produce a material equal to cotton and even silk. Great issues had been anticipated, however the hopes of the raisers had been defeated by the shortage of a course of for separating it into effective filaments. The sluggish hand press of China makes it too costly. Here is an opportunity for some brainy man to do for the ramie plant what Eli Whitney did for the cotton, reaping even a bigger prosperitythan he due to the current larger demand for material.
817. COTTON MILLS IN THE SOUTHAbout 9,000,000 individuals within the United States and England rely for his or her livelihood on the cotton commerce. Until just lately New England had a monopoly of the cotton manufacture within the United States, however of late it has been ascertained that, owing to the cheaper value of iron and gasoline, the enterprise may be carried on extra advantageously within the South. The coal and iron within the mountains and the proximity to the uncooked product will trigger New England quickly to be distanced on this vital enterprise. For those that search cotton manufacture for a livelihood or for a competence, and particularly for individuals who are starting the enterprise, the northern elements of Georgia and Alabama current unequalled alternatives for the carrying on of that trade; and to such we’d say, paraphrasing Horace Greeley’s advice to the young, “Go South, young man.”
818. ARTIFICIAL SILKThe man who can invent or uncover a substance which has the shiny luster and put on of silk in order to counterfeit the actual article can identify his personal value. Four processes have just lately been patented, however the outcomes are a fiber too coarse, too stiff, too weak, or too costly. The Chardonnet course of makes a high quality at a value of $1.23 a pound, and it sells at $2.70 a pound, an excellent revenue if solely it was sufficient like actual silk to command the market. Put in your thinking-caps, material producers, and procure the wealthy prize which is already nearly inside your grasp.
819. MINERAL WOOLHere is one thing new. Experiments have proved that rocks, or at the least sure sorts of them, may be made into wool. The wool is made out of sandstone, and from the waste slag of furnaces. “Mineral wool” is already getting used for packing and fireproofing; however the inexhaustible area for the trade within the tens of millions of tons of serviceable rocks, and the unexpected prospects in using the “new wool,” make the topic a startling one and effectively definitely worth the consideration of fortune-makers.
820. LEATHER SUBSTITUTEThe excessive value of leather-based and its fluctuation in value have precipitated many substitutes to be devised, however so far they’ve been inferior in high quality, and won’t stand the take a look at of tough utilization and publicity to warmth. Imitation leather-based has all the time been fabricated from two items of material pasted collectively, that are sure to separate or blister. Here is a secret price a fortune. A single thickness of both drill or duck, with a heavy floor coating, will stand each take a look at that leather-based can endure, and is each manner pretty much as good, and may be produced at one-third the price.
