The Comet

COMING OUR WAY.

The Big Tannery Will Be Located at Johnson City.

The Contracts Signed---How the Transaction Was Effected.

The big tannery is ours.

Nature has made Johnson City a favored spot for industrial plants, and the energy and enterprise of its citizens, coupled with their liberality, offers additional inducements to capital.

The Bristol papers announced that the big tannery would be located there, but they were too fresh in their conclusions.

On the day the Pennsylvania capitalists arrived in the city, one Mr. Innes, a member of the party, stated their intentions to a Comet reporter and said that they would locate the tannery somewhere in this section. They were in Bristol, but by a word from Messrs. Whiteside and Biddle they were induced to investigate our advantages.

Gen. Wilder, that great liberal man whose efforts have been worth more to Johnson City than all our own, met the gentlemen, and has been with them two days. They went to Roan Mountain, Cranberry and the various points in that section, and were soon convinced of our superior advantages so far as the question of tan bark is concerned.

Convinced that Johnson City is the place of all places for the location of their industry, they met with Gen. Wilder at his office yesterday and the contracts were made and signed.

IT IS THIS WAY.

Gen. Wilder, representing the Carnegie Land Company, agreed to donate them a site of thirty acres. The site selected is on the Isaac Williams farm, Carnegie Addition, along the line of the Three C's.

The Messrs. Innes and their associates agree in return to have the tannery built and in operation within 12 months from date of contract.

ITS CAPACITY.

The new tannery will be an immense industry, and, when extended to its full capacity, will give employment to hundreds of laborers. Mr. Innes stated that they would build to it from year to year. Mr. Brilhart, another member of the company, remarked that it is the intention of the company to build a tannery equally as large as the Watauga Tannery, which has been in operation in this city for several years.

It was not a difficult matter to complete the transaction, because the gentlemen came here fully determined to locate if they received the proper encouragement. That is a thing which all worthy enterprises will receive at the hands of Johnson City.

Let this be but a beginning. Let the good work go on. There are other industries which would locate here if the proper drumming were done. Each industry should be made a stepping stone to another.

Rally, rally, rally! and extend a cordial invitation to capital in every quarter of this great country. We must strike while the iron is hot!