Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-01

are also largely engaged in the saddlery
and coach hardware business, the annual
sales of which approximate that of the
leather trade. Hamilton 4 Cunningham
and Lumsden & Co are also engaged ia
the tanning business, the former making
specially of harness, bride and skirtifIo
the latter shoe, leather of all the varions
kinds, and Of good quality. There are. IN
addition, three or four ,srnall tanneries
within the corporate limits, whose aqore-
gate products will swell to some extent the
volume of tradein this line. We have aIso
several currying or finishing shops, which
produce annually considerable finished
leather of different kinds from the rouoh
or tanned state. Prominent amongst these
are John Morrow & Son, Locke & 90 and
@ A Ltterer. Several of those engaged in
the leather trade deal also extensively in
hides, skins and tallow, which are chiefly
sold to local tanners. % tsefla 20 "a
'.siaas Dry Goods. s1'lL
This business, which was so much
Crippled during the war, has fully recovered
from the shock and is right side up with
care again. The business of the past year
amounted to upwards of 90, 50O, 600, and
from all Indications, will be largely in
creased for the year to come. The differ
emit firms engaged in this department of
trade are made up of our most substantial
and solid men, whose experience will COM
pare with the oldest and most prominent
merchants in the country at large They
have ever displayed an energy and enter
prize which commends them to tie good
wishes of all who have the interest of the
city at heart. -.,.,.r
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This department Of business has grown
to immense proportions. In former wears,
nails, agricultural implements, etc.. which
formed part of the hardware trade, helped
to swell the sales, but without these ZAP
pendages" the hardware business amounts
to upwards of $500, 900, and is daily in
creasing. Prompt, reliable and active
business men are engaged in this depart
ment, and they deserve the most I'M
bounded success.
Furniture
The furniture trade of Nashville is in a
furnishing condition, and is ably repre-
scented by Messrs Weakley & Warren,
Karsch d Co., N l. Greenfield, B F Nichol,
McKoin d Co., Meis d Kahn and L Moses,
and the chair department by Messrs Taylor,
Barry Vader, of the Tennessee Chair
Factory, and Rich & Kreig, of the Nash
vile Chair Factory. The members of these
firms are all active, energetic practical
business men, and by their perseverance
have brought the furniture business of
Nashville to favorable comparison and
competition with any of the Northern cities.
The most gratifying feature in this depart
| ment of our trade is the fact, that large
proportion of the furniture now sold in
| this market is manufactured here in our
own city, out of timber cut from our own
native forests, by skilled mechanics who
live amongst US, thus enhancing all
| the other interests of our city
as well as its manufacturing and
commercial pursuits. Foremost in the
manufacture of furniture are Messrs
Weakley d Warren and Karsch & Co., and
in the manufacture of chairs Taylor, Barry
d Vader and Rich and Kreig. These firms
have all within few years fitted up their
factories with the best and most improved
machinery for the manufacture of all classes
| of goods in their line Of trade, and are
offering such inducements in the quality,
quantity and price of their goods as will
leave no excuse why other markets should
| be preferred to Nashville. We have no
| reliable means of asoertsining the exact
trade In furniture of the past year, but it
is thought that it approximates near
$500, 600. ra .ua.a .sl-.a
-r Broom Corn.
This item of produce is deserving Of
special mention. A few years ago the
raising of broom corn was in a meas
ure unknown. For the year ending 1869,
upward of 500 tons found its way to this
market, and this year, double that quantity
will be bought here. We have now in our
city and vicinity number of hourishing
broom manufactures, all doing large
business One of these factories has
shipped since the 18th of June 200, 900
dozen brooms to different parts of the
country.
Live stock.
This business is steadily increasing. We
have in the city two spacious and we'll
arranged stock yards, the proprietors by
their enterprise having done much to build
up this trade. The business of the year
foots up as follows,
Cattle Sold head. ,173
hogs ...........................l0,9 800
Sneep .s...................,.....l4, S54
In addition to these sales the receipts of
stock in transit for points South have been
immense.
Sundries.
In hastily written review prepared for
a daily paper, it is impossible to embrace
many departments which are as equally
deserving of mention as those noted. Had
we the data before US we might speak
bncOo agG cigars G ' e1R iGH
iron and other interests of equal import
ance. From rough estimates obtained by
personal inquiry, the following may be re-
the respective branches which follow:
Drugs, 500, 900
Liquors 300, 900
Iron 400, 900
Stoves, tinware, etc................... 900, 600