The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-10-09
For the Kenosha Telegraph.

For the Kenosha Telegraph.
MEssRs. EDITORS A Hofel built roo erge Il
be sustained by the business Of the place IN winch
liz is located is rather diseredi1 than an advantage
r, that ptace The same may De said OF ware
Ibuse or a mill Of TOO large capacity for the size
of the place, and other surrounding circumsfan
cos such as the area of territory necessarily trib
ptarv to if. 60 For these reasons trust shall
! not oe considered as inimcal TO legitimate enter
prise if criticize some OF your remarks in relae
ton TO the big mill which some enterprising men
are anxious to put up, especially the fellcitons
conclusions you arrive at s.
If O mill Of that capacity is located where il
depends for it's supplies upon small area of terri
tory-say Eve or even ten counties. and those
counties notoriously subject to a failure in the
amount and quality of grain, in an average every
other year, it would realize quite draw back in
It's business az compared with the mills of Mil
waukee and Chicago, which have access to the
crops of several different States, if the grain fails
in one, OF even two States they not subject to
any particular disadvantage thereby. prompt
and advantageous sale of the,cffal of mill is ABB
soluteIy essential to any profits at all, even under
the most favorable circ umstances and as otfal is
both bulky and Of comparatively low value, 1t
cannot be transported for sale, and the question
would arise as to the amount of Otfal that could
be disposed of in a retail wey here
A mill to run by steam (which presume the
stockholders will adopt as the power] should have
the advantage OF low price of fuel. 1t is under
stood that the up treights from Buffalo and Ceve-
land for grain carrying vessels deliver lots of coal
brought for ballast to the Chicago and MiIwau>
| Of the ORIGINAL nj
chase, addng expense of putting Oh and off the
vessel. At least one of the principal Milwauke e
Milers informed the writer that they obtained their
| fuel in that way, not having a large course OF
| rade by grain carrying vessels to this port such
opportunities are not presented in this market.
| Certain laws of trade often produce what would
appear TO be an unnatural course of business
OF their business / am not prepared to argue but
liz is we'll known that wheat can be shipped from
Genoa. Rockford &c, and put in a mill or ware
| house in Milwaukee at a somewhat less price
Ethan at Kenosha, 1t is equally true that -four can
be shipped at less price to Buffalo or New ork
bv first shipping from this place by railroad to
! Chicago or Milwaukee $3.50.
! will also remark that the reputation which the
brand of any -four obtains depends more upon the
SIZE of the place where IT is manufactured ana It's
duality of the -four. Thus two lots of equally
Good -four may be shipped TO New York-one lot
branded Rochester City Mills Warranted No l.
and shipped from the city of Rochester, the other
/ shippad from the Village of Bungtown lalmost ~
miles distant) and branded "Bungtown Mills w ar
ranted No l - and the former Will lnvarlbly out
sell the larter by fifty cents 10 one dollar Oarre
| The efforts of the BungtoWn miller tor genef d.
ZION would not change the result unless lnoeeu ne
could make Bungtown Il big city, ana reToSraot
Rochester to q Village
| am sorry t. spoil your agreeable hctlon as re-
| rards the number of cOopers such mill WON'T
. | i've employment TO. But as all minis DONG muci
| business use machine made barrels no mill pay,
| 40 th, additional cost of shaved barrels could
! ,snJ its hand in the competition. AS the neces'
| .ary appliances for steaming timber, for machln
| nv and powe: required for cutting out Jolntlng
$ &c the staves ard heading, are somewhat expen
e ave they can only be made to advant age "her'
, here il a large home demand and mills located II
mailer markets find il necessary 10 transport IN
,arre,s they use.
ii any -four finds its way here from Racine 1t Il
The fault trf the dealer the GeaJa mills mani Us
facture a choice article of houI The same pre-
-ume could be said of the other mills on the lint
1T The X, IL. & il, il. Il.
A small merchant mill to griEd 100 barrel
Der week might divide the business vi tn the Ge
loa and other western mills, and If owned All
. managed by practical miller, eeonomlzed wen
night realize 6a7 per cent. on his outlay, Dut no
: more But the stockholders who build such
mill as ven sleak of had better after years busi
ness call Joint meeting of themselves ana III
Stockholders Of certain ra'iroad and relleve e8ci
| ,iher in counting dividends. \