These works were established in 1870, by a company of gentlemen of Elmira, New York. In 1873 the buildings were destroyed by fire, but were rebuilt the same year by a new company, consisting of Messrs. Weed, Turner, Hood, and Thomas. Owing to some dissatisfaction the company was broken up in 1874, and the property passed into the hands of Cyrus Fields and Israel Pusey, of Wilmington, Delware, and N. Spencer Thomas, of Elmira. The works cost one hundred thousand dollars, and use, for manufacturing the extract, five thousand cords of hemlock back a year, which costs, on an average, five dollars per cord. An extensive coopering establishment, connected with the works, furnishes all the casks needed, of which about five thousand to eight thousand are used yearly.
Constant employment is afforded to twenty to thirty men and boys.