Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-05-18

nave Scei HedNy CoiullluS, lOT StOIc
fronts, shafts, reaper and mower repairs,
and many other samples of work that
were certainly all that could be desired.
They have done something in the way
of manufacturing stoves, and intend
hereafter to make it quite an important
branch of their business. They have
patterns for two sizes of box Stoves
This establishment employs ten men.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT FACTORY.
Our townsman, l.. b. Holt, inventor
of the glass mole-board plow, reaper
and mower, and an improved feed cut
ter, has determined to put up factory
in Cedar Falls for the manufacture of
his implements, all patented within a
year. He talks of making the building
about SOx2O0 feet, and of employing in
the neighborhood of 100 men. He has
been very successful in his inventions,
and is abundantly able to do this, if he
shall conclude to start on so large q
scale. He is now east, and on his re-
turn home will at once decide in regard
to the factory and commence its cree
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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 & VanSsun's, wood, 32x50,
stories high, with warehouse attached
32x35. Employs, in milling, coopering,
packing, &c, IA men.
Fox & Wright's, stone, 4lx61. Also
employs IA men.
f. Browns, stone, 3sx5o. Employs
| 10 men.
The three mills manufacture about 800
barrels of flour per day. 1t requires j
| bushels of wheat to make q barrel OF
flour: therefore the mills grind, l, 500
bushels of wheat per day, or 5000 bush
els per week. Estimating the mills to
run 800 days in the year, they would
make 80, 900 barrels of flour in that time
and consume 450, 900 bushels of wheat
This flour, last Monday, was worth, in
Chicago, at least, 500, 500! The $4,000
bushels of wheat used, was worth in
that market, on the same day, S765, 0O(
-$l.70p per bushel-Sl57,5O 800 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 az
millers can well afford to pay larger
price than shippers possibly can for the
grain, 1T will at once be seen why it il
that Cedar Falls is so superior as wlea,
market.
a SAW MILLS. s.s
There are three saw mills within the
corporate limits of Cedar Falls, and ma
ny others in the vicinity. Two of these
+. Browns and Overman & Co.'S, rur
by water. and the other, Ford & lei
sings, by steam.
Mr.. Browns mill will make s, 900 fee,
of lumber in twelve hours, and employs
| ohtSV iiieii. iAtt.tCHcl W tiilS Is u ldtI
mill, which will saw 5000 lath per day
Overman's mill will now saw about
5000 feet in twelve hours; and with
improvements, which can readily b,
made, would do much more than this
This mill also works three men.
Ford & Zeising's mill will saw 4,O0t
feet in ten hours, and employs seven
men. This is an excellent mill anc
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 month. They op
crate planning mill, also, which does
a large amount of work. OF course thei,
business, at the factory, is much moro
than $500 a month, but we merely give
the figures on manufactured furniture
Siller g. Co. employ nine men, and dc
a general carpenter and jobbins bust
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 i.
shipped in all directions. They burr
an average of one kiln a week, each
kiln containing from l 200 to 500 gal
Ions of ware. Each kiln is worth, a
wholesale, from $500 to $3.50. Eigh
men are employed. About 400 cords o
wood and about 400 tuns Of clay ar,
used a year. They pay from $50 to s1Ot
per week for hired help.
| BAKERY.
TAFT & Wilson's Bakery is one of tn,
institutions of Cedar Falls. An extern
sive business is done in the manufactur,
of crackers, which are equal to the bes
brands. If the machinery We're run OF
crackers alone, about fifteen barrels
day would be turned out. From 300 t,
500 pounds of bread are made daily
which is mostly sold in Cedar Falls.-
Four men are employed and about fiv,
barrels of -four used day.
| TANNING MILL FACTORY.
A. Z. Dickey, Of Racinc, Wis. has es