Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-05-11

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FIGURING MILLS.
The excellent Touring mills Of Cedar
Falls, and the large amount of wheat
consumed by them, render Cedar Falls
the best wheat market in the Upper c.
dar Valley. The mills are as follows:
Overman & VanSaun's, wood, 32x5O,
stories high, with warehouse attached
a2x35. Employs, in milling, coopering,
packing, &C., IA men.
Fox & Wright's, stone, 4lx6l. Also
employs IA men.
E. Browns, stone, ssx5O. Employs
10 men. ...
The three mills manufacture about 800
barrels of flour per day. 1t requires 5
bushels of wheat to make . barrel of
flour: therefore the mills grind, 1900
bushels Of wheat per day, or 5000 BUSH
els per week. Estimating the mills to
run 300 days in the year, they would
make 30, 600 barrels of flour in that time,
and consume 10000 bushels of wheat.
This -four, last Monday, was worth, in
Chicago, at least, 1856, GOO! The 45O, 600
bushels Of wheat used, was worth in
that market, on the same day, $5l7, 500
81. Is per bushel-$337, 500 less than the
flour. BY these figures the advantages
of these mills to the place may be easily
understood. AS so large an amount of
wheat is consumed by millers, and as
millers can well afford to pay larger
price than shippers possibly can for the
grain, 1t will at once be seen why 1t is
that Cedar Falls 10 30 superior as wheat
market.
SAW MILLS.
There are three saw mills within the
corporate limits of Cedar Falls, and ma
ny others in the vicinity. Two Of these,
E. Browns and Overman & Co.'s, run
by water, and the other, Ford 4 Zei-
sings, by steam.
Mr.. Browns mill will make s, 900 feet
of lumber in twelve hours, and employs
three men. Attached to this is lath
mill, which will saw 5000 lath per day.
Overman's mill will now saw about
1900 feet in twelve hours; and with
Improvements, which can readily be
made, would do much more than this.
This mill also works three men.
Ford & Zeising's mill will saw 1000
feet in ten hours, and employs seven
men. This is an excellent mill and
does large business.
FURNITURE FACTORIES.
OF these there are two-Orcutt Bros
and Siller & Co.'s.
circuit Bros. employ, on the average,
fourteen men, and turn out about $500
worth Of furniture a month. They OPP
crate planning mill, also, which does
a large amount of work. OF course their
business, at the factory, is much moro
than $500 month, but we merely give
the figures on manufactured furniture.
Siller & Co. employ nine men, and do
general carpenter and jobbing BUSH
ness in addition to the manufacturing
of furniture. The value of their man
ufactures is not far from $500 per month.
They have just commenced the manu-
facture Of Rustic Window Shades, in
which department they intend to do =
large business.
| POTTERY.
The stone. ware manufactured at Co.
dar Falls, by White & Sherwood, has \
good reputation the State over, as it is
) shipped in all directions. They burn
! an average of one kiln a week, each
kiln containing from 1900 to 500 gal
Ions of ware. Each kiln is worth, at
wholesale, from $500 to $3.50. Eight
men ore employed. About 400 cords of
wood and about 400 tuns of clay are
! used year. They pay from $50 to 500
I per week for hired help
| BAKERY.
TAFT & Wilson's Bakery is ono of the
! Institutions of Cedar Falls. An extern
sive business is done in the manufacture
of crackers, which are equal to the best
brands. 1.-THE machinery were run on
crackers alone, about fifteen barrels q
day would be turned out. From 300 to
500 pounds of bread are made daily,
which is mostly sold in Cedar Falls.-
Four men are employed and about five
barrels of flour used day.
TANNING MILL FACTORY.
A. P. Dickey, of Racine, Wis.,, has es-
tablished branch Of his Tanning Mill
Factory in Cedar Falls. The mills are
put together and painted here. 100 are
now being put up, and IRE sold about as
rapidly as they can be got ready. 1t is
expected that $50 will be put up here
the present season. Two travelling
agents are employed.
BRICK YARD.
Daniel Wild, employs about ten men.
Will manufacture at least s75, 900 worth
Of brick the present season.
| STONE QUARRY.
Townsend 4 Benjamin, employ IL
men, quarrying about 200 perch pei
week. There are a number Of other
quarries Of less importance.
| SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY.
K. NJ. Stead's Sash, Door and Blind
Factory, Planing-mill, &C., employs
Ave men. The value of the sash, doors
rd Hin ds ~ >, fa ot =, rod In MT 70 S-o,,
$500 month. His other business foots
up much more than this sum.
HARNESS MAKING.
Grant & Morrison employ five men !;
n. Hurst, two n,er.