The Daily Intelligencer

What Was Wanted.—The grounds of the barrel factory have already proven inadequate to their growing necessities. They are insufficient for the establishment at present upon them, to say nothing of future additions the company may feel disposed to make. The Puyallup factory is well nigh as extensive as the one here, and requires nearly as much room. When the company thought of moving it here, their agents calculated that four lots on the southern side of the inclosure and seven on the northern would be indispensable, and that without them the intended removal would be impossible. These lots at current rates are held at about five thousand dollars, a price that the company refused to pay. There was talk of raising money on the outside for the purpose of buying the desired land, but it was not done. In consequence, the Puyallup factory will remain where it is, and not only that but it resumes work more actively than before, while the force in the factory here has been diminished by the discharge of twenty-five men. The building and operation of the factory here has added a vast deal of new property to our town, while it has increased the value of old property, or property here before, on fifteen or twenty per cent. The addition to it of the Puyallup establishment would have put another ten per cent. on all real estate in the town, and would have been the direct cause of the spending of at least one hundred thousand dollars in permanent improvements during the year ensuing. The employment of a hundred and sixty or two hundred men and boys in an establishment like that in a town like this is a blessing not to be overstated. A half dozen of the leading land owners could very easily have clubbed together and arranged to give the eleven lots wanted, and they would have been money in pocket by doing so. Our people should learn never to turn away factories, railroads and such enterprises of vast local benefit when a little effort on their part will suffice to locate them among us.