Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-11-09
The Manufactures of our City.

one Tor manufacturing purposes.
There is an excellent natural locality
for good harbor here, and thanks to the
enterprise of our City, it is now so far
improved as to be great convenience to
the craft of the Lake, as well as fired
tact, one of the very best of agricultural
Countries lying back of il, and nature has
pointed it out as good commercial mar
And this is all.
But despite the want of all natural adj
vantages, other than rich country sur
rounding it, and the lrdnts thereof, an ex-
tent OF manufacturing has sprung up,
which Is indeed surprising when looked
at from the point of its lack of mechani-
cal advantages.
We propose to notice briefly, the most
prominent Of the manufactures of the
place, and, as it is the largest trade, we
will first mention that Of
WAGONS AND CARRIAGES.
I EDWARD Balm, successor to the old firm
of QUARLEs & MITcHELL, is the largest
manufacturer of Wagons and Carriages in
the City. lie carries it on most extern
sively. Employs from twenty-five to thir-
ty hands, and furnishes all kinds of wag-
ons and carriages ordered or desired.
His mandatory is propelled by steam
power. lie turns out Thirty Thou
sand DOltdr's worth Of work per year, or
equivalent to about one lumber wagon a
day. The chief part of his work howev-
er. is the common Two Horse Lumber
/ Wagon.
/ DAVID CRosIT, one of the Oldest manu-
facturers i'll this line in the City, turns
off Fifteen Thousand Dollars worth of
work per year, or about an average offour
wagons week. He makes few bug
gies and carriages, but his principal work
! is Two Horse Lumber Wagons. lie en-
ploys from ten to fifteen hands.
TRAIN & WILDER, III the North Ward,
manufacture about Fire Thousand Dol
/ lars worth a year. They make almost
exclusively Lumber Wagons.
( DENNIS KEARNEY manufactures about
! FIRE Thousand Dol,ar's worth year.
| The chief part of his manufacture ia Two
Horse Lumber Wagons.
/ WICHTMAN & SHoTLIFF manufacture
about Fire Thousand Dollars worth a
year, almost exclusively Two Horse Lum-
Der Wagons.
! Crow x BROTHER manufacture about
! FIFE Thousand DoHai'S worth. chiefly
Two Horse Lumber Wagons.
! MONAGHAN & MCGUIRE manufacture
, Fire Thousand DoNai'S worth, almost ex-
clusively Two Horse Lumber Wagons.
! VINEGAR. RUNALs, & SPADES manufac-
ture Three Thousand Dollars worth, al
most wholly Two Horse Lumber Wag-
onS:
Burns & JOHNSON manufacture about
Two Thousand Dollars worth, almost
wholly Two Horse Lumber Wagons.
PATRICK SpELLMAN manufactures 1tcO
Thousand Dollars worth, almost wholly
Two Horse Lumber Wagons.
OF these various firms who are enga
ged in the Wagon Manufacture, a major
ity of them are composed ofwagon-wood-
makers, and blacbsmiths who join to-
gether, and thus complete each the work
of the other, and become manufacturers
instead of working at jo,trney-rork for
large capitalists.
These wagons are sent South, south
west, and West for sale. "kcnosha " ag-
ons" have obtained, justly. a superior
fame with farmers and transfers, and
they command a ready sale.
They are all made, '1himbie Sieined,"
unless by special orders to the contrary.
This consists of pipe box, and pipe
axle, of cast iron. the axle fitting over
the wood, like the socket Of chsel-han-
die and the box fitting closely to the
axle. On the end of the axle is a screw
washer or cap, instead of llnch-pin, so
that oil or whatever else the axle is greas
ed with, is retained clean and hong time.
The wagon is stouter, and runs easier
and is altogether better.
| Next in importance is the manufacture
/ Of
Stoves AND Hollow WARE.
Messrs. Head, CAMPBELL, HEAD, are
engaged in the manufacture Of Box,
/ Cook and Parlor Stoves, quite extensively.
They cmoloy thirty-five hands, and turn
out about nine stoves day, eight cook
stoves and one other. Their business
amounts to Forty Thousand Dollars q
year.
They cast, fit up, trim, and send off
and sell all their work. They have four
pedlars out all the time vending their
cook stoves.
The next in point Of magnitude is the
manufacture of
STEAM ENGINES, MACHINERY, CASTINGS.
ANDREW LEoNARD, of the Gravel Foun-
dry, manufactures Steam Engines, Thin
BILE Skeins" for Wagons and Carriages,
and Mill Gearing, and Castings generally.
He does business Of Fifteen Thousand
Dollars a year. lie makes Treire Sets
of these "Thimble Skeins" per day, set
being what is required for one wagon or