The business was started in 1860 and gives employment to seventy-five hands. They have two large paper mills in Troy, N. Y., for the manufacture of the manila paper. The works are run by water, which has a fall of nearly forty feet. The sacks are made chiefly by machinery at the rate of 120 per minute on each machine. Three drum cylinder printing presses print in colors at the rate of 40,000 per day.
Every sack is counted by machinery as it is printed.
The capacity of the mill is 100 bushels per day. The sales amount to about 50,000 bushels of corn per year and 1,000 tons of plaster. A frame building attached for storage is 52 by 40 feet. About 45,000 bushels of barley are used during the season. The Methodist Church was organized in 1809, with Rev. Benjamin Paddock as the first pastor.