Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-23
ASHTABULA OHIO SATURDAY, APRIL 23 1870
in 1866 s. Whelpley and J. Bugbee,
owners s. Whelpley, master.

MILLS PROPELLED BY WATER POWER.
Since the days of the primitive, inefFec-
tive grist and saw mills erected in ls06
by Gilman, on the Ashtabula, and subse-
anently owned by Mr.. Amos Fisk, aud
the primitive, efficient saw mill erected
on Hubbard Run, by Messrs. Matthew
and BIanoah Hubbard, in 1909, there
have been many mills built on the Ash
tabula, from time TO time.
In 1918, Hall Smith and Nathan
Strong, Esq, built grist and saw mill,
which performed well for many years.
Mr.. Strong's share was soon purchased
by Mr.. Smith, who, after some fifteen
years, rebuilt and materially improved
them, so that they did good business for
several years longer. The saw mill
served Edwin Harmon efficiently, until
it had no more logs to saw, and ceased.
The grist mill has given place to Edwin
Harmon's fine, large stone mill, which is
the only grist mill now in Ashtabula.
Many mills in neighboring towns, of
convenient access, have diverted so much
Of the business from Ashtabula, that the
other grist mills have gone down.
There have been built, from time to
time. since the Gilman, mills, seven saw
mills, four grist mills, and two or three
tulling mills, connected with old fashion
1 ed clOt works. There were times
when all these mills, it is believed, were
simultaneously in successful operation,
for several consecutive years. The saw
mills have mostly done their work, by
using up the saving timber in their sew
eral yicinities, and by the diminution OF
water in the river and its tributary
streams, occasioned by the clearing OF
the country and the consequent increase
of evaporation. They have been super
ceded also by steam saw mills, located
in the remaining wooded districts.
The fulling mills and clothier's works
are superseded by wooden factories.
The machinery of mills and factories
of all descriptions will soon have to b'
propelled almost exclusively by steam
power.
| IRON FoUNDRIEs.
/. Ashtabuia Foundry; successivel,
occupied by Reuben Tower, Hall Bros.
J. b. Crosby, Jarvis & Alcock, Hall d
Crosby.
Q. Phoenix Foundry owned and oC
cupied by Butler & Runckle.
8. The large Central Foundry bull
and occupied by Hall & Crosby, the
occupied by J. B. Hall g. Co., and nov
by Crosby & Company.
4. The Eagle Foundry occupied b.
Williams & Co., (now used by II. Towe
for q machine shop) has made grea
quantities of stoves, ploughs, fire-plates
steam engines, and numerous other cast
ings, large and small.
~The Phoenix and great Central found
ries are still in successful operation. In
plements, utensils, wares, &c, of mos
varieties for common uses are manufat
tured IN the thirty workshops of thi
village, from silver and gold, IRON an
\ steel, copper and brass, tin and shee
Iron, marble, wood, leather, &c,
The soil of Ashtabula, under the han
of culture, has been abundantly produ'
tive of wheat, Indian corn, rye, oat
barley, peas, beans, pumpkins, onion
squashes, cucumbers, and great variet
of esculent roots. Apples, peache
meet arines, plums, ounces, cherries, pear
&C., have been successfully cultivated