The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-24

cost him $50.
L. j. ADAMS is Agent for this popular Com
pany.
AT TnE M1LLs.-There is one phase and a
very important one Of Keokuk business that
we must emigrnte down into the parts of the
city in Irish town and beyond if we wou I'D see.
Wanting to see it and make o note thereof,
we locomote down the railroad track and IN
due time find ourself at the lumber and saw
ing mill of A. HosMER l. Co. We meet our
friend HosMER who kindly cicerones us in our
tour of inspection. We thread our way thro'
the piles of lumber that ELL the grounds about
the mill and enter it; shake hands with our
friend J. B. Paul, one Of the firm. Here on
this second floor, the first one we enter how
ever, are FIVE saws and the necessary hands
busily at work. That immense raft, close by,
at the rivers edge. supplies the timber; the
logs are drawn up speedily by well arranged
mechanical means, and while you watch,
they are rapidly transformed into superb
lumber. Step to the other part Of the mill
and here shingles are being made OF rapid
rate. Go below, and here the shingles are
being dressed at one saw and laths are being
swiftly turned off at another. There is work
and thrift and drive everywhere about you.
Forty men find employment and while they
'run the MACHINES" they demonstrated the i'm
portance Of manufacturing to labor and to
Keokuk and the Importance of this mill as
one Of the manufacturing and labor employ
ing institutions of the city. From two to five
teams are busted daily in hauling lumber and
timbers to meet the local demand; cars are
loaded daily and forwarded up the valley.
The products of the mill go even to Des
MONIES and are found at all intervening pla
ces. The mill and its arrangements, ma
chinery, etc., are all in first rate condition.
Remaining idle since 1857, starting again only
last season, we had not expected to find
everything in the ordering equipment and
conduct of the establishment nearly so perfect
as they are. HosMEs & Co., deserve much
credit for their enterprise in this matter and
the spirit shown. OF the value of this estxh
lishment and maintenance of labor lis only
necessary to state that the weekly pay rolls
foot up four hundred dollars. The amount of
work done is immense Look about you at
the results of one days work-twenty thous-
and feet of lumber, ten thousand laths, five
thousand shingles. Multiply this by the
working days in the season and you will no
tiee that the sum total is huge. The timber
is RATED down from the head waters of the
Mississippi in logs. Well supplied in this
line now; the mill company will soon be in
receipt of vast quantities of timber thus
brought to them. We are glad that Messrs.
HosMER & Co., have, with their ample means,
put this mill in operation. We doubt rot it
will be profitable to them; certain are we that
it is of much Importance and utility to Keo-
kuk. Their excellent material and work:
their reliability and substantialness as deal.
ers, will secure for the company large and
permanent demand for all the product of their
mill; and purchasers throughout all the val
ley, at home, and in all the country here
abouts, if careful of their interests will do
Returning towards the city, and coming up
Third street, we come to another good Keo-
kuk institution in this line, tbs the mill and
extensive lumber yard of FoRD & Co. 1t has
not been many months since we went through
this mill when it was at. work and noted the diff
erent machinery and gave accountthereofunto
our readers and we will not now recapitulate.
With our friend Mr.. Fl. SEYMOUR, of the COM
pany, we aake a hasty glance through the in
stitution. Ia the upper rooms doors and
window sash by the hundreds are piled about
US, and by the hundreds, others are in pro-
cess of completion. Many hands are here at
work. Of the number employed in
the mill and factory we made
no memorandum as we had
given these in our previous notice. This we
know, the number is sufficient to make this
one of the large labor employing and manu-
establishments of Keokuk. The
Company have an immense stock Of lumber
On hand made from all manner Of wood and
% suit all the ends ofits employment. Their
timber is RATED down the river and embraces
al the arboreal species fit for lumber that
flourish in those Northern ATTITUDES. They
nave two large store rooms, one filed with
window sash aud the other with boxes for |
mercantile trade. They have recently estab-
ished branch house atSt. Joseph, Missouri,
Ind are doing an extensive business there.
They send large quantity of their dressed
umber and manufactured articles to that
,lace. Various and sundry. are the styles of
york in wood that engage their labor; from
he flooring Of house to the washboard, |
,seful in the domestic department when the I
house is finished. The mill is now running.
about it in good order, and good
york being done. The proprietors are well
Known, energetic, popular, safe business men,
,ave many patrons, and we wish them an in
le6nite extension in that direction.
The Poet Alexander Smith Upon the
Poet Burns.
Of Burns, the man and poet, what is there
eft to be said? During his lifetime he was
regarded as phenomenon and now, when he /
has been 10 years in his grave. he is a phe.
nOmenen still, He came mn from Auo.aL:..