Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-04-06


Several OF these FIax-Cleaning Ma
chimes have recently been put in operation in Flax
Mills in this region, and one of them may be seen
running In this city, which, driven by twenty horse
motive power and attended by five men, produces at
one operation, from good dew-rotted Flax Straw n
superior quality of Clean long and open Flax Tow at
the average rate of one and one-half tons of Tow
per day.
For this Tow there is n large demand
at the East for spinning purpUses-the present re-
quirement being for from fifty to seventy-fve ton
daily, and the demand rapidly increasing.
For the purpose of developing the
business established by our machinery and the de-
mand for its product we propose to cooperate with
local capitalists at desirable points for growing Flax
n the Northwest on the business basis of an equal
division of net profits.
The plan of the proposed cO.opera.
tion, in general terms, is as follows, Wis We fur
nish for use and set up one # our Flax-Cleanng
Machines in the Flax Mill provided by the cooper
struct in running the Mill and keeping the machi e.
ry in order, giving also the benefit of our long expe-
riencein the Flax business, and Offering special ai
also propose to furnish for the use of each Flax Mill
s. A. Clemens Flax Seed Threshing Machines,
both for removing seed and seed ends from flax
straw bound and kept straight and for removing
seed from tangled straw, each Machine removing and
crushing the seed bollS, ready for winnowing the
seed.
The local, Cooperating party will
provide: First. Flax Mill, building and twenty
horse motive power with shafting, &C., for convey
ing the power to the Flax Cleaning machine. Sec
ond, two Flax Barns each of capacity tn store two
hundred ano fifty tons Of Flax Straw y Third, am
pie grounds in the vicinity of the Flax Mill for Flax
Barns and for stacking Flax Straw. Fourth, hay
scale, platform SCALE power balipg press, and i'm
pements and fixtures for the Flax Mill. Fsth about
fifteen hundred tons, or the product of about two
thousand acres, Of good dew-rotted Flax Straw an-
nually; SiSth, labor and teams for opera ing the
Flax Mill.
The cooperating party can make, as
his SHARE net, annual profits Of from two to three
hundred per cent. on his permanent inve tment of
about ten thousand dollars requiredfor Flax Mill.
Parties proposing 70 start Flax Mills,
should make immediate arrangeu ents for putting
in early this Spring, the necessary CROP BY aiding
the farmers in the vicinity of the proposed Flax
Mill to get seed and by contracting with them for
the required two thousand acres Of Flax, sOwn at
the rate of one and one-half bushels to an acre.
We have made arrangements with
Linseed Oil Manufacturers by which cooperating
parties can get Flax seed loaned by them.
We are prepared to give further and
full Information relative to the Flax business, and
will send our circulars to those requesting them and
will also exhibit one of Machines running in the
city and refer to the parties using them elsewhere.
UNION FLAX MILLS CO.
,m, JAMESJ; WALW0RTH, Pres't.H
q STILLMAN A. CLEMENS, Genl Sup't.
OFFICE, 225 LA KE STREET.
CHICAGO, ILL.,. March l. 1865. tmchs4-d2w