The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-04-30
From Canton.
/. CATION. ONO. April 1s, 1868.

,sss CANTON, ONO, April 1s, 1868.
FRIEND CUNEo: If my memory serves
me, promised you a letter when left
home for this place, and will now give
| you few items in my way. ItImay
,e presumptive in me to trouble you
With a word about this fast growing
city, when I have been a resident of it
but a few weeks, while it has been but
a short time since you were a resident,
and in that time gained an extensive
acquaintance, while my own must be
necessarily limited. But Canton of four
years ago and Canton of to-day are en-
tirely different. Canton of to-day is a
great and growing s'city'' on small
scale! In this short space of time she
has grown hugely. She leads all the
cities between Pittsburg end Chicago.
And the latter will have to look wen 70
| her laurcls,, or Canton viii outstrip her
in everything except "lake tunnels"
and dirty water. Chicago has her
wealthy manufacturers. So have we.
C. Aultman & Co. expect to turn out
four thousand Moving Machines, and
fifteen hundred Threshers. the coming
season. They give employment to a
small regiment of men of all kinds of
trades. They have invested in business
ing their branch works at Akron. Mr..
C. Aultman, the senior head of this
great company. is a man who has
amassed a large fortune by his industry,
economy, strict integrity, and great
business capacity. He returns an in
come of over one hundred thousand
dollars. A genial, whole-souled, liberal
i Christian gentleman, q citizen of ire
proachable character, he makes his in
fuence felt in the community in which
he lives. am sorry to say that he talks
of going to Mansfield, to make that city
| his future residence. I wonder If 1T is
business that takes him there, or is
there l-y in the case! Mr.. Taylor OF
Chicago, has united ith him, and built
large shops at Mansfield. Thanks to
the liberality of her. citizens. Why
can't Cpper Sandusky do the same?
Next in order of greatness is Col. e.
Balls shops, which have nearly the
same capacity that Aultman's have.
Aultman manufactures the Buckeye
Mower and Sweepstakes Thresher.-
| Col. Ball manufactures. the World
| Mower and Tornado Thresher. 1t
| would be too tedious to attempt de-
scription of these works. Suffice it to
say their reputation is worldwide, and
hundreds Of thousands of farmers all
over the civilized world heap eulogies
upon the makers of these labor-saving
machines.
Then we have the Gibbs Plow Shops,
two of them. But foremost among
this branch of business is the shops
where E. Ball jr.,'s celebrated Iron
Beam Combination Plows are manu-
factured. The present manufacturers
are Messrs. Miller d Cook. These plows
are fast gaining reputation for SIM
plicity, durability and lightness of draft
that no other plow manufacturer in
this country can claim. The principal
/
with patent attachment, so that it can
| be changed from cast to steel, and
vice versa, by having two sets of mold
boards and landsiGes. This gives the
| farmer plow for all the different kinds
of soil, and one that the beam will last
to the third generation. And now for
the small fry. such as one large foundry,
| two carriage factories, two woollen
mills, one paper mill, enc wrought iron
works, one hinge factory, one knife
| factory, two marble works, three cabi-
net and furniture rooms, nine dry goods
stores, two fancy millinery stores, three
hat and cap stores, eight clothing stores.
three stove and tin shops, five boots and
shoe, three drug, two book, twenty fam
lily grocery, two leather and findings,
and four jewelry stores, three harness
shops, three livery sta bles, seven hotels,
five banks, Zone National), two schools,
nine churches, one soap and candle fac
tory, one wholesale grocery and notion
house, three a. fists, three dentists, law
yers and doctors too numerous to men
ton.
! But I must not forget to do the Opera
House, not Crosby's, but that ''prince of
good fellows" as Bro. DUNN would
say, L. Schaffer's, and which is proving
trump card for Lew. It is an orna-
ment to the city, and just now is reap
ing harvest for the benefit of the Cath
olic Church. The play of "Alladin's
Lamp has been put ON the stage every
night this week, with great success, by
| home company which numbers among
its composition some of the upper ten''
of the city. The fixtures and scenery
are simply perfectly beautiful" The
tableau at the close of the piece is the
most magnificent ever beheld. have
but one fault to find with the Opera
House, like Clay Deans shirt, it would
be improved by ventilation.
There is just now a great cry, and
some tall swearing on account of the
scarcity of houses to rent. Every day
persons pass by the place that would
stop if they could get houses. Patience
| and shoe-leather are alike tried in hunt
ing habitations, and in the journey
around some very '.high Dutch' and
square English is used.
There are many evidences of enter
prise all over the city. The old build
ings formerly occupied by the county
offices are among the things that were,
and in its stead will go up, this summer.
q court house to cost the modest sum of
$175,000. Many other fine buildings
will go up this summer. The Presby-
terians are building a stone church,
Which will be the larGeSt in the CITY