The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-05-15

We took look ct the nsw ihop of thisAsnths
other day. Invent up = thsugh By nagie j.stss
vintsr closed in, and psobably not ~ q suz
citizens know but little Of IL Situstsl q a.
oosaer Of Marquette and Clinton stsset4 pl3efa.
iag the G., R L &P. r. r, stnp So
Of the building transfers ysu to ~ an!z& -
loading benesth. In close pgoxini&y - tie
canal, it, lumber yard Il 1t the vstets saeA al
little of from La Sale strsst ~ noise e -
chinery and the hurrying and srowdias In u
teams distarbs no one. The shinse1 snekes
without offending me sristocrstic noe Il aSy.
body who b senGtve to smalh; and withal, ~
location is out Of the reach of dust from stsssts
having on every side . good oirculatioa' u a,
yet ii is Of easy accea to the workman ~ -
farmers coming into town.
ons hhaArsd md forty BY one hundred and
twenty-six feet, two stories high, substantially
built OF Ottawa brick it is no small affair
Going inside, you are struck with the airy as.
pect OF the rooms,-high ceilings, we'll lighted,
we'll ventilated, and the elbow-room afforded;
but above ALL with the quiet work that is swiftly
turning out well made agricultural impIensnts
by the carload. Corn shelters, champion corr
plows corn planters, gophers, reapers and move
ers,-here they are, Of good stuff, well made a.d
ready for use.
A forty horse power engine built BY the Srm
runs the machinery, and with its exhausted
steam dries the lumber in the kiln and wsrms
thelwhole establishment in winter.
We found near an hundred men emple5ed in
the establishment We do not knew how many
families they represent, or how many nat;onali.
ties. We do not know what the firm is worth
pecuniarity, but their worth to Ottawa, and to
our county, may be estimated by the men they
employ, the families they sustain, the wages they
pay out and the funds they expend in their bus
mess, in addition to the utilities Of fheir pro-
ducts to the farming interests here. A workman
with good tool can do vastly more than with q
POOR one, and do it very mach better. He finds
the gain ia . greatly increased production. It
is not at all improbable that this firm by its en-
terprise here adds thousands of dollars annually
to the vsiue of the farm productions In our coun-
ty. But their market is not limited to our couu.
ty; ther implements range from Minnesota 10
Kentucky, and from Indiana TO Kansas and Ne
braskA Its difficult for tho establishment to
meet the demands upon il. ,a's4 's'3 =
To give q more sensible exposition Of the
mighty industry of this establishment. and of the
wheels it turns far and wide, we have made a
note Of some items In Detail, as follows:
Wages per week paid ont : :. - :. 81 900 to ZOO
Bar iron used per annum :. .. =. 100. to 100 tons
Cast iron " ...... -. 200 tons
Lumber +" ..-ls0,0O0 to 100000 #
Carriage bolts +" -. 100000 to 10000
White lead (" about 1000 lbs
NermuliOn ." ..about A. 600 lbs
Oils, varnish and turpentiae ..-- -. .25 bbls
b OF ANNUAL PRODUCTS: a
Champion Walking Cultivators. $500 to 5000
Corn Planters, from !. ...... 80. 800 to 500
Corn Shelters, from -: =. :. .150 10 200
Rsapees for home trade only, from ...71 to 100
Mem value appreciation in their wsll doing.
Let our citizens read this article, and than take
Look through this establishment and 80 what
such men are doing for Ottawa. Give the boys
. chance to look at it and see how things are
made It viii sharpen their wits more than a
months schooling. II may be, when their "DadH
is puzzling his brains what to do for the young.
sters, they will themselves have got the notion
that work is Of some use to man, and that to
know how to do something is no disadvantage.
what Callkins says.