The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-05-14
and pounds are often gathered at one

sand pounds are often gathered at one
haul.
AT MANITowOC.
The boat lays by an hour and half a
! Two Rivers, and then makes directly fol
! Manitowoe, six miles south. The village
/ has made market progress within a yeal
and now crowds full six thousand p0pua
tion. The town seems to be about hal
made up from Germany, quarter from
America, and the rest from Norway anC
! Ireland. Full halt of the business of the
village is done by half dozen large trad.
ing establishments the other half is di
vided among a hundred or less small
huckster arrangements.
LEADING TRADES.
joseph Villas & Co., have the larges,
stock of goods, aud do, perhaps, the larges
trade. Their entire business. including
their woolen factory and outside trade, is
figured at 5000 900. Villas had little
skirmish with Congressman Sawyer last
fall, and run over a thousand ahead of hi:
ticket in the county. Villas started in a.
village schoolmaster here twenty years
ago.
o. Torrison, now the representative Nor
wegian merchant of Eastern Wisconsin,
commenced a poor young clerk here six,
teen years ago. Four years later, he struck
into business for himself From th ence he
pushed up rapidly and steadily. till now his
business, outside and in, figures up with
Villas, at 200, 600 He has two schooners,
and deals largely in wood, lumber posts,
Gsh, grain, &c.
John Scbutte does a large grain aid
h,,o ool Eourao -,
nearly up to Torrison.
j. E. Platt, counted the richest man in
town, started small indian trading shanty
here twenty years ago. He has the finest
residence in this northern country, and a
heavy trade.
Goodnough & Barnes and +. Wagner
class up heavy also among the merchants.
The legitimate store trade OF the village
is figured at 5000, 600.
BANKING.
Few towns Of its size in the State show
so strong bank account as Manitowoc.
The sale ct exchange at the two banking
houses OF I. T.. Shove ann the First Ma
,lonal Bank exhibit as follows:
Exchange on Milwaukee $500 ,OOO
Exchal ge on Chicago 900
Exchange on New York $50 00O
Total Sl,292 900
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cnn,,,.n,. ~ M;,,nonLna Tha;n ord,1r
,ra ,arnn p' ;" az Man;,"l "a aun oah had ~
Z. Shove's banking house. Shove has
been steady at the wheel for many years.
Two Jerks are now required to meet his
press OF banking business.
SHIPMENTS AND SHIPPING.
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iho WV od' ""u " one .us rt
,no H., $40, aiaue VI H'n''o"oo ne nc
;oIi' i"'' s''eo' ioo' "p DO
Pickets, 81 600
Posts, $4,000
Slaves, 500
6room-handies, 4o.09o
Wagon-.ongues' i'o00
pd, n"', Du'n' i'1'ooo 'ooo
rI",,,, obSi. hbi.. eoo '9oO
Inmher f.ett . 400 0VU
The shipments at Two Rivers connec
mostly with the great tanneries and facto
fles. The tannerles shin million and IA
quarter pounds of leather and over 800,
700 pound OF hair during the year. Four
teen millions Of lumber, two millions lath,
10000 posts, 81, 900 hop poles, 10 900 ties
and 5000 cords of wood were shipped from
there last year.
SHIP BUILDING.
Ru;s,ess ;s Ill, ., 10 sh;,r,ras
Green Rand has inst laid ,ha / col T nf now ,oH,
Goat for Goodrich & Go> 20 II is st two " " bnn-
dred feet long, and will be one IF tbe hest
schooners on the stocks at his big ward