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A very fine healthful location and a thriving village, and has three general blacksmith shops, a carriage manufactory and several other small industries.
A manufacturing establishment of any kind would be welcome and every possible assistance rendered to make it successful. There is a stock farm near the village in which blooded horses are raised and trained.
Homestead, Hudson County.
On the Erie Railroad. Station in the village. Population, 180. Banking town, West Hoboken. Express service, Wells-Fargo Company. Tax rate, $2.19.
Offers many advantages as a location for manufacturing industry ; the rail- road service is excellent, trains to and from New York are frequent, and land in every desired quantity on or near the railroad line can be had for factory sites at very low prices, or for a particularly desirable industry the land will be given free and other assistance rendered if required.
The village and surrounding country contains a population large enough to insure a good supply of labor, some among the workers being highly skilled in certain lines of industry.
There are two large manufacturing establishments now in operation in Homestead, one of them, the silk mills of Givernaud Brothers, produces broad silk and ribbon and employs upwards of 350 persons. The other is the sash, door and blind factory of D. R. Hollingshead, in which 30 men are employed.
Hope (F 3), Warren County.
Nearest railroad station, Bridgeville, on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Population, 400. Banking town, Newton. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, United States Company. Tax rate, $1.13.
No manufacturing carried on here, but the inhabitants would welcome any proper enterprise that would furnish employment and assist it to the fullest possible extent. Land is abundant and low priced; taxes are low; labor is plentiful, and the climate healthful.
Hopewell (F 5), Mercer County.
On the Philadelphia and Reading Railway ( Philadelphia and Bound Brook Division). Station in the town. Population, 980. A banking town, con- taining one bank. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, United States Company. Tax rate, $1.46.
The town has water-works, which furnishes an abundant supply of good water; land is high and entirely free from marshes or stagnant pools; the' location is one of the healthiest in the State. Railroad service is of the very best; trains are frequent and facilities for handling freight first class. Ex- press trains make the trip to Philadelphia in 35 minutes and to New York in one and one-half hours.
An organized stock company controls a large tract of land, the frontage of which extends about 1,200 feet along the line of the railroad. Factories built on any part of this tract can be connected by switches or sidings with the
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railroad. This company offers free sites to parties who erect and operate fac- tories on the same. There is a large quantity of land situated in other parts of the town from which factory sites may be obtained free, or at a nominal cost.
The supply of resident labor is good and in both quantity and quality, and so highly do the people regard the importance of building up permanent indus- tries, that parties establishing a factory in Hopewell may depend on receiving every reasonable encouragement. Parties desiring factory sites should address the Secretary of the Board of Trade, Hopewell, N. J.
The following manufacturing establishments are now in operation :
Hopewell Valley Canning Company, canning vegetables and fruit ; employs 95 persons.
Thomas Vaughn, manufacturer of shirts; employs 50 persons.
J. S. Cope, quarrying and crushing stone; employs 20 persons.
J. P. McQuade, quarrying and crushing stone; employs 60 persons.
A. G. Fetter, hard wood saw mill and feed mill ; employs 16 persons.
Burton & Naylor, stair builders, sashes and blinds; employ 10 persons.
Herring & Northrup Creamery Company, cream and butter ; employs 4 per- sons.
There is a three-story frame building, 30 x 60, with a floor area of 5,400 feet, which is now idle. It has been used as a factory; has a steam engine and boiler. The structure is in excellent condition and can be purchased outright for $2,000 or it may be leased at a very moderate rental.
Hornerstown (H 5), Monmouth County.
On the Pembertown and Hightstown Railroad. Station in the town. Popu- lation, 200. Banking town, Hightstown. Money order post-office and tele- graph station. Express service, Adams Company. Tax rate, $1.39.
Land for factory sites is practically unlimited in quantity and may be had at very low prices. Railroad facilities good and a fair supply of labor.
Hurffville (E 7), Gloucester County.
Nearest railroad station, Sewell, on the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad. Population, 250. Banking town, Woodbury or Glassboro. A money order: post-office. Express service, West Jersey Company. Tax rate, $1.34.
Low priced land for factory sites and an abundant supply of labor.
Imlaystown (H 6), Monmouth County.
Nearest railway station, Imlaystown Station, on the Pemberton and Hights- town Railroad. Population, 175. Banking town, Allentown. Express ser- vice, Adams Company. Tax rate, $1.34.
Land for factory sites at nominal prices. Healthful climate, good water, low tax rate and plenty of labor.
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Indian Mills (G7), Burlington County.
Nearest railroad station, Atsion, on the Atlantic City Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Population, 250. Banking town, Medford or Vincentown. Express service, United States Company. Tax rate, $1.48.
lona (E 8), Gloucester County.
On the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad (Camden and Cape May Branch). Station in the town. Population, 300. Banking town, Vineland. A telegraph office. Express service, West Jersey Company. Tax rate, $1.60.
A convenient location for manufacturing. Land at very low prices in any sized plots. Plenty of labor and very good railroad facilities.
Irvington (B 5), Essex County.
A suburb of Newark, connected by trolley lines with all the steam lines running through or near that city; its railroad stations are, therefore, the same. Population, 5,255. Banking town, Newark. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, Adams, United States, Wells-Fargo Company and all other companies having Newark on their line. All that is said in the note on the commercial and industrial advantages of Newark apply with almost equal force to Irvington.
The following manufacturing establishments are now in operation :
Glorioux & Woolsley, refining and smelting gold, silver and copper ; employ 52 persons.
Irvington Brass Works, manufacturers of brass novelties; employs 20 per- sons.
Mergott Company, manufacturers of pocket book frames and novelties; em- ploys 50 persons.
New Jersey Brush Company, manufacturers of brushes ; employs 15 persons. Belcher Brothers, manufacturers of rules ; employ 15 persons.
Walker-Johnson Company, manufacturers of tidies ; employs 12 persons.
Celluloid Paper Company, manufacturers of varnish.
Iselin (H 4), Middlesex County.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad. Station in the village. Population, IIO. Banking town, Rahway. A telegraph station. Express service, Adams Com- pany. Tax rate, $2.00.
The quantity of land available for factory purposes is practically unlimited ; it may be had in plots of any desired size along the line of the railroad. The train service is excellent. Situation an ideal one for manufacturing pur- poses.
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Island Heights (17), Ocean County.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad (Island Heights Branch). Station in the town. Population, 316. Banking town, Toms River. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, Adams Company. Tax rate, $2.68.
Manufactures are desired here and would be made welcome. Land is abundant and can be purchased at very low rates. Railroad service is good and reliable and tax rates low.
Jacobstown (G 6), Burlington County.
Nearest railroad station, Cookstown, on the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad. Population, 100. Banking town, Bordentown. Money order post- office. Express service, Adams Company. Tax rate, $1.52.
Factory sites at very low figures. There is a wagon business carried on here on a small scale. Factories would be welcomed by the inhabitants and everything possible would be done toward helping along any manufacturing business that may start there. The supply of labor, particularly of the un- skilled kind, is good.
Jamesburg (H 5), Middlesex County.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad (Camden and Amboy Division and Mon- mouth Junction and Bay Head Junction Branch). Station in the town. Popu- lation, 1,063. A banking town, containing one bank. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, Adams Company. Tax rate, $1.94.
A highly advantageous location for manufacturing. Healthful climate, low- priced land for factory purposes, regular and frequent trains on the best rail- road in the country, connecting with New York, Philadelphia and all large cities, east, west and south.
A good water supply, fire protection, schools and all the features of a healthy, progressive, modern town. Abundance of labor, skilled and un- skilled. Has some manufactories now and greatly desires more. Those that are here have come and remained because of the advantages of the place.
The following are the principal establishments :
Koblenzer & Darien, manufacturers of shirts; employ 140 persons.
Pineland Incubator and Brooder Company; employs 12 persons.
F. H. Pownall, iron works; employs 14 persons.
American Dental Manufacturing Company, manfacturers of dental tools and chairs; employs 7 persons.
James H. Mount, manufacturer of cream puff fillers, bosom boards; em- . ploys 6 persons.
Janvier (F 8), Gloucester County.
Nearest railroad stations, Wlliamstown, on the Atlantic City Railroad, and Franklinville on the West Jersey and Seashore. Railroad. Population, 150. Banking town, Camden. Express service, United States Company. . Tax rate, $1.58.
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Land in abundance for factory sites, at low prices ; in case of a particularly desirable industry, land to build factory on would be donated.
There is a manufactory of Smyrna rugs. here, operated by H. P. Fries, in which 22 persons are at present employed. Another very striking industry and one that promises to grow rapidly in extent and importance, is the manu- facture of a beautiful gold-spangled glass called "Adventurine." It is a repro- duction of glass made in olden times by the Venetians for jewelry purposes ; their glass makers never having found it possible to produce it in any but small quantities, its use was limited to rings, studs and brooches. The firm, Walsh Brothers' Company, now manufacturing the glass at Janvier, have discovered or invented a process by which it is made in slabs sixteen inches square, and they see no reason why it should not be made in pieces double 01 treble that size.
The uses for which it is intended in its new form is table tops, jewel cases, lamp stands, clocks and all the purposes for which onyx, to which it is superior in beauty, is put. Another important valuable peculiarity of this beautiful glass is that no two articles made of it can ever by any possibility be alike; each piece is a design in itself, which, owing to the process of manu- facture, cannot be duplicated.
More than 200 acres of land, out of which fine factory sites may be selected, is for sale' in plots of any desired size at very low figures.
Jersey City (14), Hudson County.
The termius of most of the great trunk lines of railway running to New York City. The following roads enter Jersey City and are connected with New York by ferry : Pennsylvania Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, West Shore Railroad, New Jersey Southern Railroad, New York and New Jersey Railroad and Long Branch Railroad. All these roads have their terminals on the Hudson River water front of the city and in the center of its most active business section. Population, 206,433. A banking town, containing ten banks. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, Adams, Wells-Fargo Company, United States and National Com- panies. Tax rate, $2.84.
The special advantages of Jersey City are proximity to and first-class ferry communications with New York.
Railroad communications with all parts of the Continent afford a choice of competing routes in the shipment of goods; its position on the Hudson River and New York Bay offers a choice of water communications to all parts of the world. Internally, the city enoys the advantages of low rents, reasonable taxes, well-paved streets, an abundant supply of water and a sewer system. which effectually drains all its sections. There are first-class school accommo- dations for children, and an abundant supply of labor, skilled in all the vari- ous lines of modern industry.
The following are the principal manufacturing establishments now in operation :
L. O. Kovan & Brother, boilers ; employs 46 persons.
Theodore Smith & Sons Company, boilers; employs 128 persons.
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John Doscher, paper boxes ; employs 24 persons.
James Leo Company, paper baxes ; employs 275 persons.
E. Waldeck & Company, paper boxes; employs II0 persons.
Lembeck & Betz, lager beer, ale and porter ; employ 105 persons.
H. P. Simon, weiss and birch beer ; employs 6 persons.
Battelle & Renwick, saltpetre; employ 40 persons.
Mutual Chemical Company, potash and soda; employs 91 persons.
Tartar Chemical Company, cream tartar and tartaric acid; employs 82 per- sons.
Baker Castor Oil Works, castor oil; employs 29 persons.
R. Hilliers Sons Company, drug millers ; employs 30 persons.
John Edelstein, cigars ; employs 21 persons.
F. A. Goetz & Brother Company, tobacco and snuff ; employs 14 persons.
William Gotthardt & Company, cigars ; employs 12 persons.
P. Lorillard Company, tobacco and snuff ; employs 1,740 persons.
Henry Riekens, cigars ; employs 10 persons.
A. L. Causse Manufacturing Company, glace fruits ; employs 40 persons.
E. A. Graf, dessiccated cocoanut ; employs 28 persons.
Jacob Ringle & Son, cornices and skylights ; employ 330 persons.
Jersey City Galvanizing Company, cornices and skylights; employs 60 per- sons.
Ludwig Manufacturing Company, fringes ; employs 32 persons.
Manhattan Electric Supply Company, electrical supplies ; employs 350 per- sons.
Brewster Manufacturing Company, chocolate and cocoa ; employs 77 persons. Swift & Company, meat packers and lard refiners; employs 225 persons.
C. F. Mueller & Company, macaroni and noodles; employs 35 persons.
Kato Manufacturing Company, bronze and brass work; employs 17 persons. George Krouse, brass composition castings ; employs 50 persons.
Boynton Furnace Company, furnaces, ranges and heaters; employs 126 per- sons.
Gibson Iron Works, grate bars; employs 40 persons.
A. A. Griffing Iron Company, iron radiators and steam heating specialties; employs 405 persons.
Hitchings & Company, greenhouse heating and ventilating apparatus; em- ploys 136 persons.
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, graphite products and lubricants; em- ploys 553 persons.
Safety Bottle and Ink Company, ink, mucilage and paste; employs 19 per- sons.
John Mehl & Company, fancy leather goods; employs 490 persons.
S. DeRenzie & Company, gloves; employs 78 persons.
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Edward Schroeder, car lamps and fittings; employs 103 persons.
Brown & Miller, machinists and boiler makers; employ 62 persons.
Gould & Headley, freight elevators; employ 19 persons.
M. J. Russell, marine engines and machinery ; employs 20 persons.
A. J. Corcoran, wind-mills and pumps ; employs 42 persons.
J. R. Runyon Manufacturing Company, mattresses ; employs 18 persons.
William S. Flynn, condensers and distilling apparatus ; employs II persons. H. & E. Gothberg, chandelier trimmings; employ 28 persons.
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Mesereau Metal Bed Company, brass and iron bedsteads; employs 65 per- sons.
New York Metal Bedstead Company, brass and iron bedsteads; employs 118 persons.
Hartman Brothers & Reinhard, musical instruments; employ 12 persons.
Menzenhauer & Schmidt, guitars, zithers and mandolins; employ 180 per- sons.
Harry Louderbough, paints and colors ; employs 17 persons.
C. A. Woolsey Paint and Color Company, paints and colors; employs 48 persons.
Jersey City Paper Company, tissue paper ; employs 42 persons.
Eastern Granite Roofing Company, roofing material ; employs 29 persons.
National Sheet Metal Company, cornices and metal roofing ; employs 40 per- sons.
New York Iron Roofing and Corrugating Company, steel and iron roofing ; employs 10 persons.
Eureka Fire House Company, rubber hose, belting, etc .; employs 158 per- sons.
New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Company, vulcanized rubber goods ; employs 172 persons.
Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Company, rubber hose, belting, etc .; em- ploys 62 persons.
Springer Torsion Balance Company, Torsion scales; employs 20 persons.
F. G. Otto & Sons, medical batteries; employ 143 persons.
A. Bruenn & Company, broad silk ; employs 15 persons.
L. B. Schaefer, broad silk; employs 30 persons.
C. Stohn's Sons, Inc., tie silk and vestings; employs 392 persons.
Colgate & Company, laundry and toilet soap; employs 335 persons.
A. Gross & Company, laundry soap and candles ; employs 58 persons.
Mulhens & Kropff, toilet soap and perfumery ; employ 44 persons.
Oakley Soap and Perfumery Company, toilet soap and perfumery ; employs 66 persons.
Lederer Brothers, tallow ; employ 6 persons.
Enos F. Jones Chemical Company, soap ; employs 7 persons.
R. M. Gilmour Manufacturing Company, asbestos material; employs 56 persons.
Monarch Covering Company, asbestos covering ; employs 35 persons.
W. Ames & Company, bar iron, spikes and bolts; employs 104 persons.
Spaulding & Jennings Company.
Jacob Feudtner, iron railings ; employs 6 persons.
Alex. Hamill, structural and ornamental iron; employs 12 persons.
The Edward R. Merrill Spring Company, coach, wagon and truck springs ; employs 30 persons.
Consolidated Manhattan Suspender Company, suspenders; employs 105 persons.
Otto Zimmer, traveling bags; employs II persons.
James Chadwick & Brother, cotton yarns; employ 208 persons.
Charles H. Gillespie & Sons, varnishes ; employ 18 persons.
New York Standard Watch Company, watch movements; employs 378 per- sons.
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Central Cooperage Company, barrels, kegs, etc .; employs 48 persons.
Day & O'Donnell, barrels, kegs, etc .; employ 53 persons.
New York Veneer Seating Company, veneer goods ; employs 37 persons.
James O'Connor, hogsheads, barrels, etc .; employs 82 persons.
Proctor Brothers & Company, pine cooperage; employs 22 persons.
Winter & Ball Manufacturing Company, umbrella sticks and handles; em- ploys 166 persons.
Mathison Cooperage Company.
American Sugar Refining Company, refined sugar and syrup; employs 892 persons.
Detwiller & Street Fireworks Manufacturing Company, fireworks; employs' 75 persons.
Foot Manufacturing Company, polishers' and platers' supplies; employs 39 persons.
Frazer Lubricator Company, axle grease ; employs 10 persons.
J. H. Gautier & Company, retorts, crucibles, etc .; employs 92 persons. New Jersey Zinc Company, oxide of zinc; emplyos 191 persons.
M. Redgrave, bagatelle tables; employs 10 persons.
Sackett Wall Board Company, plaster boards ; employs 17 persons.
Jobstown (G 6), Burlington County.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad (Kinkora and New Lisbon Branch). Station in the village. Population, 250. Banking town, Mount Holly. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, Adams Company. Tax rate, $1.40.
Factory sites may be purchased here at very low prices. Railroad facilities are good. Tax rates reasonable, and a fair supply of labor may be depended upon.
Johnsonburg (F 3), Warren County.
Nearest railroad station, Marksboro, on the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad and the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad. Population, 150. Banking town, Hackettstown. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, Wells, Fargo & Co. and National Company. Tax rate, $1.06.
Juliustown (G 6), Burlington County.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad (Kinkora and New Lisbon Branch). Station in the village. Population, 300. Banking town, Mount Holly. Money order post-office. Express service, Adams Company. Tax rate, $1.45.
Cheap land for factory sites, and good railroad facilities. A population large enough to afford a fair supply of labor. A manufacturing industry would be welcomed, and everything possible done to make its settlement here advantageous to the owners.
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Junction (F 4), Hunterdon County.
On the Central Railroad of New Jersey (main line) and Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Railroad. Stations of both lines in the town. Popula- tion, 998. Banking town, Bloomsbury or Clinton. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, United States Company. Tax rate, $1.00.
One of the most healthful locations in the State; directly on the main line of the Central Road, it is in direct communication with the sources of coal and iron supply in Pennsylvania.
A large number of trains on both roads, going east and west, stop here, furnishing unsurpassed facilities for the transportation of goods.
Land for factory sites situated close to either of the railroads can be purchased at moderate prices. The labor supply is abundant and of a highly intelligent character.
Keansburg, Monmouth County.
On the Central Railroad of New Jersey (Atlantic Highlands and Freehold Branch). Station in the village. Population, 600. Banking town, Keyport. A money order post-office. Express service, United States Company. Tax rate, $1.266.
Kearney (B4), Hudson County.
On the Erie Railroad (New York and Greenwood Lake Division). Station in the town. Population, 10,896. A banking town with one bank. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, Wells, Fargo & Company. Tax rate, $3.36.
Has a sewer system and water-works; electric and gas lighting; paved streets ; schools and churches.
Part of the town fronts on the Passaic River and vessels of fair size come to the wharves. Factory sites on advantageous terms may be procured in almost any part of the town.
Although belonging to another civil division, the town is naturally a part of Newark, and enjoys all the conveniences of trolley transportation, and , the transfer system makes communication throughout the city and its suburbs rapid and inexpensive. Labor, skilled or unskilled, is plentiful.
A factory building with floor area of 15,000 square feet, with engine and boiler, is now idle. It may be purchased outright for $14,000, or it will be leased at a rental of $100 per month. The following are the principal industries . now in operation :
Hillier & Company, finishing and dyeing cotton goods; employs 50 persons. Thos. Hewett & Sons' Company, brass foundry ; employs 35 persons.
Nairn Linoleum Company, oilcloth and linoleum; employs 279 persons. Marshall Linen Thread Mill; employs 742 persons.
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Keasby, Middlesex County.
On the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Freight stations in the town. Nearest passenger station, Perth Amboy, distant three miles. Population, 600. Banking town, Perth Amboy. Money order post-office and telegraph station. Express service, United States Company. Tax rate, $2.36.
It is situated on the Raritan River, which is navigable for moderate-sized vessels up to and beyond that point. Connected with Perth Amboy by trolley cars, which convey passengers from trains to the town. Upwards of thirty. acres of land having a frontage on the river, and as many more directly on the line of the railroad, is for sale on easy terms. From these parcels of land, factory sites offering superior facilities for shipping freight may be selected. Labor, skilled and unskilled, is plentiful. The trip to New York by rail is made in one hour, and by water, four hours. The trolley line connects with and transfers to the general system of the New Jersey Traction Com- pany, thus enabling residents to travel anywhere reached by that system of transportation. The frontage on river is large, and the water at docks fifteen feet at high tide. Ample accommodations in the way of houses and stores, a large brick school building capable of accommodating 200 children, a health- ful climate, and every element necessary for an ideal location for manu- facturing industry. Three firms have large establishments in Keasby engaged in the manufacture of fire proofing and fire, porous and hollow brick. These are Adam Weber Company, fire brick, employing 150 persons; the Raritan Hollow and Porous Brick Company, employing 225 persons, and Ostrander Brick Company, whose factory is at Fords, a short distance from Keasby, em- ploying 100 hands.
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