Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01
Planning and Saw Mills-ShlngIes- Sashss
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There are nine saw mills in the city, with
an aggregate capital invested ofSlSO,O 900.
They employ about two hundred hands,
and expend weekly in wages $500. Their
products are more than twenty-seven mil
lion feet OF lumber annually. The shin
gle machines attached 70 two of these saw
mills make 5000 shingles daily, or nine
and a hsif millions annually.
The price o flumber has still been main
tanned, and importers of lumber from
Northern States have likewise h~ourished.
The lumber made here is shipped, in
some instances, in the shape of finished
houses, to points on the river below, or
along the rivers of Arkansas or
distribute, W. the interior by railways.
The greater quantity, by far, is CON
sumed in the city and suburbs. Messrs.
Cubbins, Gum & Coover employ forty
i've hands, they have $4,000 of machin-
cry, their buildings cost 5000 and the
stock of lumber kept on hand Is worth
S3O,U10. Each month they send forth 5000
worth of doors, blinds and sashes with 49,
900 shingles. The assessed value of the
ground and building. and of the whole
establishment is sl06, goo. Like other es-
tablishments Of this description, this fails
to supply the demand for its products
and orders are accepted for all
work it can produce in
the next two months. The area of
country supplied is constantly widened
and the superiority of Memphis, to all
Western cities, as a lumber market is
daily more and more widely recognized.
Lumber and building materials are
shipped to Summit, in Mississippi, far
below Jackson, to P~Ocohontas in Arkan-
sas and far up the Arkansas river, TO
points near Nicksburg; and cypress lum-
Der, because of its durability, is shipped
from Memphis to st. Joseph, Missouri,
and even to Des Moines, Iowa. While
Memphis supplies cities and States north
of US with walnut and cypress, three of
our planning mills bought a raft of one
million feet of white pine, in June last,
from the upper Mississippi.
The planning mill OF Williams & Co. cost
more than $50, 900, is constantly in opera
ton, and employs twelve hands. That Of
Taft & Saint has a capital OF 81, 900, en-
ploys twenty hands, and turns out two
and 4 half million feet of lumber annu-
ally, and, like that of Williams Il Co.,
produces sashes, doors, blinds, scroll
work and mantles. Mr.. VIM. Farris, of
the Gayoso planning mill, employs an av-
eraga force of thirty m6n-twenty white
and ten colored; wages of whites, 50 so
per day; blacks, 81 per day. He consumes
of clear white pine, in doors, sashes and
blinds, 1000 feet; and of poplar, cypress
and yellow or hard pine, I50, 900 feet per
month, used in flooring, ceiling, siding,
etc. For want of capital, only about two
thirds of the power or capacity of the ma
chinery is used. The operations of the
year amount to about 500, 900. The de-
mands far greater than the working
capacity of all the machinery in the city,
and the demand for the products of plan
ing mills is Unsuitable. Manufactured
work is sent as far south as Nicksburg, as
far west as Fort Smith, as far north as
Missouri and Kentucky, and east to the
line of Georgia. No agents or drummers
are employed. With these aids the bust
ness could be qusdrupled. Moore, Eader
& Co.'s planning mill has an invested capt.
tai of $4,000, and employs from fifty to
sixty hands. II uses two million feet of
lumber annually, and if run to its full
capacity, would consume six millions.
The company is erecting a brick building,
four stories high, at a cost of SIS, eco, as q
warehouse and Office. The buildings
now used are of brick, two stories, and
hre-prOot.
Brooms and Brushes.
Messrs. Wolcott, Smith & Co. began the
manufacture of brOoms and brushes
in July, 1869, and have made two shun-
bred dozen, of each, each week. They
have imported ten thousand dozen han
dies from Michigan, while the timber of
which they are made costs one-third less
in ibis city. The wire used is made Of
Tennessee iron in Taunton, Mass. De-
spite these facts, resulting from the want
of local enterprise, the cheapest and best
brOOms made in the United States are
shipped from Memphis. The crop Of
broomcOrn, which costs farmers almost
nothing, is very great, and is annually
increased. Its quantity or value we have
no means of estimating; but every farm
from Sl29 to SIPS per ton, according to
quality. Just now the local market is
Overstocked, and great quantities are
shipped to the factories of Western cities.
Wood and Willow Ware.
Not only on the low lands Of the Missis-
sippi, on either shore, aud its tributaries
invaluable aud interminable forests, but
canebrakes furnish cheap materials for
the manufacture of papier-mGche, chair
bottoms and countless articles of every
day use. Hickory, used in making wag-
ons and hoops, abound. In view Of these
facts the Wood and WillOw-Ware Manu-
featuring Company has been organized
with a capital, held by shareholders, OF
about $4,000. Their building, of brick,
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thousand dollars will be invested in ma
chinery, such as is employed in making
wagons, for which the demand in this city
is limitless.
Cheapest Furniture In the World.
Walnut logs are delivered here at SIS to
$40 per thousand feet; poplar, S to $40
per thousand feet; cypress, $40; oak, SIS.
Red gum, used in vast quantities in the
manufacture of cheap furniture, cost IS
per thousand feet. Sycamore abOunds
everywhere Its cost is fixed by that OF
transportation. It's density is such that
it will not float. With every species of
timber filling interminable forests on
every hand, Memphis has imported, dur
ing the year, not less than II and q half
million dollars worth OF furniture. In
fact, staves and barrel heads and cedar
logs are now shipped in great quantities
from this city to Louisville and Cincin-
natl, and returned in the shape of barrels
and buckets. Memphis should surely
utilize wealth at her very doors, and be-
come the greatest furniture and wooden
ware manufacturing city on b continent.
In Louisville and Cincinnati, walnut is
worth SG5 per thousand feet; in New York
$l25 per thousand feet; and labor is as
cheap here as elsewhere in the United
States. The freight on a plain wooden
top bureau, which costs SLl or Sl2 in Lou
isville or Cincinnati, is 81 IS to 81, TO
which insurance and handling and tax on
imports are to be added. Such a bureau
can be made here for 81 so to s., and no
freight or tax. Louisville never began to
grow till furniture makers began their
tasks.
eOttOa-sesd Oil.
The c~otton-seed oil mills of this city
have hitherto shipped the residUum, after
o-.-..aE,- 4ha oil from .nftnng1aA n
England. In Liverpool the cake or resi-
dunn sells at IS per ton, and shippers
from this city nave found this foreign
sale prOftless. The hay crop of Eng
land is very light, and there viii proba-
bly be a marked advance. Meanwhile
the Memphis manufacturers of oil pro-
pose to sell the AXE as a substitute for
guano. It's admirable qualities as a
manure have already been tested, and as
compounded by Prof HIgsrd, of the Uni
versity of Mississippi, c~Otton-seed cake
viii in the future be probably very widely
used. It's effects upon growing crops 3
magical. When our planters remember
that they throw away nearly half a ton o.
seed for every bale of cotton ginned, some
idea may be formed of the Importance
which cotton-seed oil and cake might be
made to assume. Nature has adapted
every part of the product Of the cottoI
plant for some useful purpose. Aftel
The lint is taken of there is left a seed
which contains a rich Vegetable oil, nearly
equal TO that extracted from olives, al
alDuminous substance as nutritivC
to cattle as corn, all inclOsed il
a hull which also is rich IL
fertilizing principles. A simple calculs-
ton will show the great value of the cot
tonseed annually produced in the South
and which is destined at an early day
q, - r,FfTf1oA From q nron of < ono mn
bales there will be a yield of $500, 00I
tors cotton seed. The bulls ofthis amount
when burnt, viii produce 100,O 900 tons o
fertilizing material, worth some $4,000,
600. The balance will produce 36,000,O 0
gallons of crude oil, worth so to % cent
per gallon, or sls,0 600, 600, and 5000 ton
Of oil-cake, worth, at SO per tor, Sll,250,