Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-01-20
RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS
OF the past wear OF some leading articles will
give some idea OF the business of the city:

Receipts. Shipments.
Flour bbls. ...-....--. 2, ,259 904 2, 339, ,16S
Wheat, bus. .l6, TAG IL, 460 ,0S9
Corn, bus. ....... .G3,932,S25 2O,771, ,626
Oats, bus- IL ,33O, 933 6,226, ,644
Rve bus. .- ,524 AIS 7i9 374
Barley, bus. ,S32 470 450 2S0
Whisky, bbls ....... 1Ol, ,496 1850
Lard, lbs ........... 9lS547 17,l56, ,129
Pork, bbls. ..... 52,746 40 44S
Cattle, NO. -...-- 4V3,6Zi 2u.OZo
Sheen, No 339 $50 103 513
Hogs, No. 1909 513 1,225,21
Salt, bbls . Cos, GAL 5l3, 900
Lumber, NJ. .......... 1,Ol2,678 634, 422
The grocery sales for the wear amount 10
S4S, SOC, 900, and drugs to over eleven millions.
Though the increase in business the past
year is not great as was expected, yet ii
has been considerable, and though the profits
have not been large, yet when the great
stride which has been made toward hard
pan basIs is takea into the account, it must
be regarded as quite satisfactory.
THE BUSINESS PROSPECTS
for 1870 are good, and the best informed bus
inees men predict large and successful busi-
ness for 1870. The decline in manufactures
the past year, nominslly five millions, is re-
ally much less, compared on gold basis,
owing to the increased value Of greenbscks.
and has been chiefly In articles not essential
to the development of our industry.
MANUFACTURES
ale prominent source Of the unexampled
growth and prosperity of Chicago. They
give employment to thousands Of workrnen,
and convert raw materials into articles OF
great value and utility, supplying them read
ily and cheaply to the people Of the North
west and thereby aiding in developing it's re-
Sources in return for which millions of dol
| lars are received here to be disbursed again
through all the channels OF trade and COM
merce. No city and especially no inland
! city-can be permanently rich and prosper
Gus without manufactures. Aud those
branches OF manufactures, directly connected
with the chief industrial pursuits of the
! country are the most important auxiliaries
in building up great cities and in promoting
the general prosperity. And first among
these, in amount and value of products, is the
manufacture of
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMESrs.
Omitting, for the present, the harvesters,
| the reapers and mowerS of which we have
/ here a very Lar ge manufactory, notice more
| particularly those implements used i'll the
cultivation of the soil, the common type OF
representative of which is
THE PLow.
For all the devices for breaking, stirring
and ploughing the soil are but modification ms
of, or improvements on, this old, time hon r.
+, ed, indispensable instrument, the plow. To
adapt the pluw to different soils and pur-
poses, and to meet the wants ard convent
ence of farmers, the improvements aud vari-
cites made are 80 great, that the catalogue OF
the principal manuiactory here numbers
| Hi,fv-tlro different kinds and sizes, under the
/ heads of StubIe or Old Ground Plows; Stuble
and Sod Plows; Cast Steel Plows; Prairie
Breaking Plows; Extra Breakers; Cast Iron
Plows and Cultivating Plows.
4 A plow Is not a very complicated instru
ment, and yet the different parts pass TIN ougt
a great variety OF processes before they be
D. f,iah 1,aio he hos nd hal Las
are sawed out of the best timber CIT for this
specific purpose, then trimmed and fitted an(
the handles steamed. bent, confined ant
cooled SO that they retain their bent shape
Then they are fitted to the iron work, var
nished or painted ready for use, then taker
apart and packed separately in convenlen
punches, for handling or shipping.
The iron and steel parts-shares, lant
sides and mould boards-are cut from iroI
and steel plates, forged, shaped, punched
!, fitted, ground aud polished. Nearly all thu
processes are done by machinery. After tn
are ground on huge grind-stones
stream of fire darting from
the place of contact of the steel with tn
swiftly revolving stone. They ars then pol
, ished on emory wheels, the surfaces Of whicl
are renewed every day. The grinding room
story and usually darkish-at first sight re
minds one of the devil's workshop filed wit
internal workmen splitting fire, with stream
OF water trickling down to each imp to coo
. his parched tongue. But, as the dimnes
grows lighter, you perceive that they are skill
, ful fellow-beings eng aged in benefcen
work, and that these are but two OF the man
, processe necessary to make perfect plov
|, In the West, where there is so much prairi
and loose soil, the great deslderatum Is
, produce pillow that will ''scour," or clea
itself from dirt. And this can be accomplish
ed only by making a perfectly hardened an
\ smooth surface. and in such soils cdsf-ste
, plows, hardened and polished, are indispen
: sable.
The chief piow mandatory, in Chicago,
the
GARDEN CITY PLow WORKS
OF Furst 4 Bradley, Sc to 70, No th Jefferson
, near Lake street. The wood -shop-60by IL
feet-is five stories high; the iron works,
!, by 16O feet, and the engine room 30 by 40 fee
. four stories high. In the lower story OF tn
B wood-shop the wood work for plows, cultiv'
: tors, harrows, &c, is sawed out from plan
: of the right thickness, then passed u
!: through successive stories to be trimmed
! fitted, put together, vanished, {
= painted till it is packed and stored in tt
= upper story for shipping. In the iron worh
the steel and iron plates are cut by stron
g machinery in the lower story, and the woi
y ascends as it approaches completion. Hel
If ia the most perfect blacksmith shop eve
built, lighted on three sides by large, hie
n windows. The machine shop and everythin
q connected with this department seems PEI
: feet. s
TIE engine, OF 125 horse power, whie
L drives all their machinery-msde in the
n own shop by g. @. Gross, superintendent
10 q model OF strength and beauty, and the
z driving wheel, IA feet in diameter, aud weigl
), ing "a tons-the largest ever made In II
% west-was cast by T. Z. Weldon, OF the Pho
I~s-
. This firm has been in business here near
~ sixteen years, aHd has grown from small b
ginnings to their present large proportion
\. employing from $50 to 200 man, makir
y plows, cultivators, field rollers, hay rake
~ road scrapers, feed and cane mills, and
Of goods all over the Northwest, and shippiI
le largely to Kansas and the Southwest. The
,e cast steel clipper plows and breakers have Z
n taiEed national reputation Tor perfect har
n ness and finish, lightness OF draft and sup
A' riority of work. Their new styles have q
e shares and lnndsides, as well as the na0ul
n boards hardened, 80 that they will scour IN ,
d. most sny soil. BY producing the best ar
,e cles at the lowest price, they have secur
,e an immense patronage. It is such establis
Il ments, as this OF Messrs. Furst b Bradle
of which have aided to build up Chicago to
r. present eminence, to develop the agricultr
= al resources Of the Great West. :
IN ~ BIRTHS, DEATHS ANB MARRIAGES..
Ishould not give life- picture Of Chicaf
n without noticing that there have been 81
!. births, 6 476 deaths and s, 226 marriages he
- = the past year. Chicago ought TO be health
10 for her Board Of Health cost her last ye
It SIC. .699 It has been unusually dry the pt
n year, the rain fall having been 1ee-1(
inches less than IN 1858.