The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21
TuT NECEifIH AND SHIPMENTS
Of tho past year Of come leading articles viii
giyo some idea OF the business OF the city:

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salt, bbls ..r...." GG5,6ll $4,000
Lumber, M-........., 1,0l2,G 79 63l. 422
Tho grocery sales for the year amount TO
siS, 500, 600, and drugs 10 over eleven millions.
Though the increase in business the past
year IL not a. great as Was expected, vet II
has been considerable, and though the profits
have not been largo. vet when the great
strid, which has been made toward o hd1d
pan basta is taken into the account, 1t must
be regarded as quite satisfactory.
THE BUSINESS PROSPECTS
for 1870 are good, and the best informed bus.
mess men predict a 'a~go aud successrul bust
ness for 1870. Tho decline in manufactures
the past year, nominally five millions, is 70.
ally mucn less, compared on q gold basis,
owing to the increased value Of groenbacks.
and has been chiefly in articles not essential
TO the development Of our industry.
MANUFACTURES
ale a prominent source Of tho unexampled
growth and prosperity of Chicago. They
give employment to thousands Il workmcn.
ard convert raw materials into articles of
great value and utility, supplying them read
lis and choaply 10 the people Of the North.
west. and thereby aiding in developing its re-
source, I'm return for which millions Of dol.
lars are received here to he disbursCd again
through an the channels Of trade and com.
mercc. No city and especially no inland
city-can be permanently rich aud prosper.
Gus without manufactures. Aud those
branches Of manufactures, directly connected
with the chief industrial pursuits Of the
country, are tho most important auxiliaiics
in building mp great cities nd In rromOting
the general prosperity. A d frat among
these. in amount and value OF products, is the
manufacture Of
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Omitting, for the present, the harvcsters,
the reapors and mowers, Of which we have
here a very large mandatory, l notice more
particularly those implements used in the
cultivation OF the soil, the common type or
representative Of which is
THE PLow.
For all the devices for breaking, stirring
and pl0ughing the soil are but notifications
Of. or improvements on, this old, time. honor
ed, indispensable instrument, the plow. To
adapt tho pluw to different soils and pur-
poses, and to meet the wants a. d convent
cnce Of farmers, tho improvements and yari.
cites made are 30 great, that the catalogue of
the principal manulpctory here numbers
MiytJ hrO different kinds and sizes, under the
heads Of Eiuble or Old Ground plowr; Stuble
and Sod Plows; X Cast Steel Plowa; Prairie
Breaking Plowa; Extra Breakers; Cast Iron
Flows and Cultivating Flows.
A pillow Is not n very complicated instru-
ment, and yet tho different parts pass through
a great variety Of processes before they be-
come a finished pillow. The beam and handles
are sawed out Of the best timber cut for this
speelut purpose, lNtu TRIMMED ana utteO ana
the handles steamed, bent, confined and
cooled 30 that they retain their bent shape.
Then they are fitted 10 the iron work, var
nished or painted ready for use, th0n taken
apart and packed separately in convenient
punches, for handling or shipping.
The iron and steel parts-sharea, land
sides and mould boards-are cut from iron
and steel plates, forged, ahaped, punched,
fitted, ground and polished. Nearly all the
processes are done by machinery. After the
iron work Is put together the plOws
are ground on huge grind-stonos,
the place Of contact OF the steel with the
revolving stone. They are then poll
ishcd on emory wheels, tho surfaces Of which
are renewed every day. The grinding room
is always in the basement or lower
story aud usually darkish at first sight re-
minds one Of the DEVILS workshop filled with
workmen splitting fire, with streams
OF water triclling down 10 each imp to cool
his parchCd tongue. But, az the dimness
lighter, You perceive that they are skill
ful fellow-beinRa eng gagged in a beneicent
work, and thst these are but two of tho many
necessary to make a perfect pillow.
In the West, whore there ia so much prairie
and loose soil, the great desideratum Ia to
produce a pillow that will "scour," or clear
itself from dirt. And thisc can be accomplish
ed only by making a perfectly hardened and
smooth surface, and in such coils c~1st.sieei
hardened aud polished, are indispen-
cable.
The chief piow mandatory, in Chicago, is
the
GARDEN CITY PLow WORKS
Of Furst a Bradley, GO to 20, No tn Jefferson,
near Lake street. The wood. shop-60by 100
Ave stories high; the iron works, 90
by 100 feet, and the engine room 80 by 40 feet,
four stories high. In the lower story Of the
wOod-shOp the wood work for plows, cultiva-
tors. harrows, &c, ia sawed ont from plank
Of the right thickness, then passed mp
eehtopgh SaseesSlye stories TO DC trimmed,
till 1t j.. packed and stored in the
upper story Tor chipping. In the iron works
tho steel and iron plates are cut by strong
machinery in the lower story, and the work
ascends as II approaches completion. Here
il tho most perfect blacksmith shop over
built, lighted on three sides by large, high
windows. The machine shop and everything
with this department seems per-
feet.
The engine, Of 1875 horse power, which
drives all their machinery-made IN their
OTn shop by q. O. Cross, superintendent
a model of strength and beauty, aud their
wheel, IA feet ia diameter, aud weigh
ing ~ tOns-the largest ever made in the
west-was cast by T. X. Weldon, Of the PhH-
nix Foundry.
This firm has been in business here nearly
years, and has grown from small be-
TO their present large proportions,
employing from 100 to 200 men, making
plOws, cullivatOrs, field rollers, hay Takes.
road sOrapers, feed and cane millsI and a
great variety Of machinery, selling their
goods all over the Northwest, and chipping
10 Kansas and the Southwest. Their
cast steel clipper plows and breakers have at
taiEed a national reputation for perfect hard
ness and finish, lightness Of draft and snpe-
riority Of work. Their new styles have the
shares and ldndsides, az well as the mould
boards hardened, 30 that they will scOtr In al
most any soil. BY producing the best aTti,
clos at the lowest price, they have secured
an immense patronage. II ia such establish
80 this OF Messrs. Furst a Bradley,
have aided TO build up Chicago 10 lfs
eminence, TO develop the ag icultur-
al resources Of the Great West.
BIRTHS DEATHS AND MARRIAGES.
i should not give a life-picture OF Chicago,
without noticing that there have been 1900
births, 6 d76 deaths and 8, 22G marriages here
the past year. Chicago ought 10 be healthy,
FOR her Board of Health cost her last year
$40, $50. II has been unusually dry the past
year, the
RAIN FALL
having been 8 1863 1000 inches less than in
1863.
POPULATION.
The population is estimated at 800, 900.
There we're 65, 900 immigrants here tho pact
ear, but how many became permanent resi-
lents there 10 no record.
ADJUSTMENTS
TO be well patronzed. Anew attract
on at Aiken's Museum Is the monster min