One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

MONEY IN MANUFACTURE. How a Blacksmith Got Rich--The Story of Pullman--The Story of the Columbia Bicycle--A Recipe for a Fortune--A Mica Secret--How to Make Marble--Another Great Secret Given Away--Rubber as Good as Goodyear’s--A Way to Smash the Trusts--Wanted--A New Railroad Car--Sidney Smith’s “Wooden Pavement.” Vast profits accrue from manufactures, but the best returns for investments in this line are realized when the manufacturer is able to make a new article, or to make an old article by improved means. David Maydole, a village blacksmith, was requested to make for a carpenter a hammer as good as he could make it. He made a better hammer than had ever before been seen, and the carpenter’s mates all wanted one. The village storekeeper ordered two dozen. A hardware dealer, passing through the place to sell his wares, left an order for all the blacksmith could make. The hammer-maker built a large factory, and this was the humble origin of the celebrated Maydole hammer, and the foundation of a great fortune. Another fascinating chapter on manufacture is the “Story of Pullman,” which reads like a fairy tale, but is all strictly true. Mr. Pullman began in a small way to build parlor cars, making one or two as an experiment. The traveling public were quick to appreciate the luxury, and Mr. P. had to enlarge his works again and again. He built the town of Pullman, which is now valued at $30,000,000, and the capital stock which now has a market value of $60,000,000, has paid dividends with the regularity of a government loan.