The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-22
rrun he Cincinnati Gazette
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THE GREAT wHIsKEY MART OF TIE WORLD.

FEUH ibe Cincinnati Gazette
THE GREAT WHIsKEY MART OF THE WORLD.
Ask a schoo-boy how iron is manufactured from the
o,how the rough material rolled into bars and sheets
and converted into the hundred thousand shapes in which
II useful and iudspensaby necessary to the wants Of
The egeand be will be found able to furnish the desired
tnformation Equally well informed people generally
With reference to other branches of manufactures, which
are f,ly explained in school books and periodicals. But
little Is written aud consequently the people do not
know a great DEAL of the manufacture OF Whiskey.
Va one who lives in Cincinnati or vicinity Is igno-
rant of the existence Of huge dstteries IN and around
the cv The columns of black smoke that roll up nigni
and DAY and in cases every day and night in
the week-the acres of hog pens and the contaminated
atmosphere make all acquainted with this fact But few
peose comparatively have taken the trouble to make
themselves acquainted with the extent of this business
Of the odus opsrdnd of converting corn into whisky
This Is probably TO I've attributed the fact that preu
dice exists against this business For ages whskey has
proyed curse race and dsterie are looked upon
as an evil The latter therefore instead OF receiving at
eu,on from the lovers of science the friends Of
featuring industry have been in most treated with
silent contempt and the reading public have learned moth
ing of late improvements in the art Of making whiskey
Our city, however having become the greatest whskey
market in the world and the Ohio valley the greatest
whiskey producing region the face of the earth ma,
be worth while devote single article to this subject
Notwithstanding TACT that KNOWN OUTSIDE OF
those Immediately interested in the business of the various
improvements connected with the dstaton of liquor
branch of business has drawn heavily upon the
yenve genius of the age than this and it has been
favorahy affected by modern improvements any other
The latter have vastly increased the capacities of disler
les and enlarged the margin for profits by increasing the
relative yield of grain and improving the quality of the
article produced Disleres may therefore be said have
attained to point of perfection Il pog-
4Ia harf
exhausted itself in this line.
This certainly would be the impression received upon
visiting of the extensive deries in the vicinity
this city. Steam is made to perform nearly all the labor
Few employed and they do little else than look
the machinery it performs the work. The distilery
that propose to notice particularly situated convent
ent the Miami Canal railroad the distil-
ery with this canal whence the supplies If
tanned. The latter is transferred from canal boats into
large boxes upon cars and thus conveyed huge
bin where stocks kept This bin s also connected by
railroad with the distllery, and the corn upon being
veved from the former the latter is thrown into the
hopper of large corn-sbeer which separates the grains
from the cohs with great rapdiy The being sheei
carried by elevators the second story of the building
and empted into the hoppers Of mills, by which it
ground and the meal deposited in the first story. Tie
oobs taken by machinery from the shelter and thrown
the vicinity Of the boilers where they used for fuel
The meal is ground is carried by elevators into the
upper part Of the building and thence it is conveyed
back part Of the establishment and deposited in large tanks
the FIRST hoor Here the dsers make what they call
mash The cooking" il performed entirely by steam
From these tanks the mash is drawn of into other tanks
equal dimensions, situated either side where ii goes
through the cooling process and receives the yeast In
the latter tanks the mash remains three days
1t becomes thoroughly worked by the yeast Here it fire.
queny spois in consequence Of had yest unavoabr
weather. but when accident OF this kind happens
drawn OF and into the still The latter is about thirty
feet high and FIVE six feet in diameter The mash is
boiled in the lower part Of this still and the escapes
through pipe connecting the upper end Of the still with
the The latter is in large cstern filed with
cold water and here the is condensed and from this
worm the whiskey drawn in the lower story and thence
II into dsern in the "whiskey house where il Is
barreled and made ready for market
What remains in the still after extracting the whiskey Il
called "stll-sloP This is drawn of into tank which
stands out OF doors and it ID upon this that dsdery logs
fed.
This is in brief the process Of manufacturing whiskey
It is simple and rapid 1t requires on an average
about four days to convert the into whskey and
dsers capital Is therefore, turned once a week
corn and whiskey being both cash articles.
The quantity Of consumed in this dstery Is about
1000 bushels per day, from which about 900 gallons of
Whtsksy produced This gives for this single establish
meui consumption Of $4,000 bushels Of corn per an
There other diseries in this vicinity the capacities
Of which are severy two three times greater than the
one we have described.
We have not the data upon which to base estimate
the quantity Of whskey produced in the Ohio Valley The
quantity sold in this market annually about 100000 bar
res or nine million gaons This is probably not more
than one half the production Of Ohio aud Indiana alone
resuming that the production is eighteen million gallons
and we hhd the consumption Of be four and Arf
million bushels to produce which requires million and
quarter acres good land II IL probable the production Of
vhiskey in the Ohio Valley is ay million gallons per an
NUN, involving consumption oftwcvs and half million
bushels corn, the average value Of which s $5oOoOo0
THE LANCASTER BGNK-The failure Of this bank 1, stated
70 have been caused by the Of it's by rrespous
BILE parties for speculative purposes in the Shamon re-
gon The hank which had a cnnitaI Of SAnn mn Ia Ga