C. V. Taylor may Move Company

We were informed that the parties in Jackson MI, are making overtures to C. V. Taylor and company to induce them to move to that city, also to Stewart and company with the same purpose, And that if Taylor and company, move Pontiac will lose both establishments. We also learned that despite the enticing officers held out Weather Jackson people, tailoring company prefer to stay here If they can rent the building they now occupy for the next 10 years On the same terms as they have on the first, that is, by paying annual interest of 6%, to the owners of the building, in other words upon the stock held by these parties and representing the building. They ask no bonus. It seems to us to be a very reasonable demand, and we trust that our citizens will think very seriously before they allow the two of the leading industries the city to move away. How much they do for Pontiac may be estimated from the fact that the two works now employ 110 hands, with the prospect of employing 130 a little later, their yearly payroll is about $40,000 and the amount of business which they do annually approximates $175,000. When we consider that these works are given employment to the representatives of about 100 families and paying out $40,000 in wages in this city yearly we can appreciate how serious a blow To this city’s prosperity would be their loss. The city can’t afford to lose them. The citizens should look to it.