Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-04-10
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

BUSINESS IN DRATTtEBoRo.-For the conven-
fence Of those who may have occasion to send or
ders to this place to be led and for the purposes
of reference we propose to make few notes con-
corning the mechanical business of Brattleboro.-
In every minute particular we may not be perfect
" exact yet the approximation to accuraeness will
be sufficiently near for practical purposes.
.MefodeonsMie EsrEY & GREEN, who suf-
fered very severely by the fire last fall are now
carrying on business in the manufacture Of Me-
lodeons nearly as extensive just previous to that
calamity. Their new and extensive shop, built ex-
pressy with reference to this business, is so COM
plete in all its appointments that they can do the
same work with greater facility and less help than
formerly. They now employ about twenty hands,
ana turn out on an average ten instruments per
week, which range in price from S75 to $500
each Those of the latter price have the harmonic
attachment and are considered by competent judg-
es to be the finest instruments in the market
Their meodeons are distinguished for the purity
of their tones, elasticity of touch, and volume, MS
the numerous premiums awarded to them will
abundanty testify.
FIGURING .MI.-Last year Messrs. E. CROSBY
Co. purchased the old "Tannery'' and fitted it
up for Touring mill. They put in three run Of
stones and all the improved machinery for making
the finest quality of flour. They now grind about
three carloads or 900 bushels Of wheat per week
which will make an average Of from 80 to 40 bar
rels of -four per day. They also grind about 100
bushels Of the coarser grains per day Their -four,
meal, feed and shorts find ready market in this
vicinity. The wheat and other grain is empted di-
rectly from the cars into the bin from which il is
carried about the building by water power and
through all the various processes until it is deposit
ted in suitable bins and the -four packed in barrels
ready fol- the market.
Machine Shops.-Tbcre are four machine shops
in the place. Messrs. HINES, NEWMAN & Co. con-
Tine their attention principally to the manufacture
Of paper-mill machinery. During the past year
they have made sets which were sold in the New
England, Middle and Western States and in Can
ada. Their work gives good satisfaction wherever
1t is introduced. Messrs. CRANE & ViNTos do
nothing but job-work. Since the fire they have
rented o new and commodious shop and stocked il
with convenient machinery. They are excellent
workmen. Messrs. LUTHER WELD and BEMIs &
WARE devote their attention to the manufacture
of planing-machines of which they turn out quite
number annually. The latter firm suffered by
the fire but they are now in convenient quarters
doing good business
Cabinet FurnitUre-Messrs DwINELL & BIIss
are doing thriving business in the manufacture
ef furniture in their shop near the foot of Main
street. They employ about l2 hands Their sales
rooms are in Wheeer's Building and in Central
Block The great loss of their predecessors at the
great fire in September enforced the propriety Of
separating the manufacturing from the sales de-
partment. Aside from their own work thew pur-
chase large quantities from the best city manufac
tories, which makes their assortment large and
complete.
Rude Fdctory.-CHARLEs L. MEAD, the success
or of i. A. Stearns & Co. has nearly completed
his new shop and will soon resume the manufac-
ture of rules of every variety. He can emplov
from twelve to twenty more hands ~ the bust
ness may seem to warrant All his best macbin
cry was saved from destruction. The other is now
being put in by Crane & Wilton. His shop will
be convenient and enable him to prosecute the work
to advantage The rules heretofore made at this
establishment undoubtedly the best manu-
featured in the county.