Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-04-12
Heme Manufactures.


new manufacturing enterprises, to
diminish our dependencies upon the
Older States. The remark is often
made that if Wisconsin continues as
she is now doing she will at no dis
tant day become to a great extent
independent and self supporting
There is abundant reason to expect
that steam and water power will
produce within our own borders most
of the manufactured staples, whose
materials can be here produced or
imported.
The beet sugar factory which
promised 80 well at Fon du Lac, has
been renewed to California, so that
its further SUCCESS here will not be
proved at present; but enough has
been done to show that Wisconsin
can produce her own sugar. Cotton
goods are. not yet attempted, but we
need not Fear to compete with older
States in :ho manufacture OF wooden
fabrics. We are told that there are
no larger or better wooden factories
in the State than the one at Lancas-
ter; and wo have faith to believe
that within 9 few months it will sup
ply the i9arket of all this section
with thoee first rate goods which it
has lately begun to produce.
The manufacture of lnseed oil,
which has long been carried or in
this county, will be continued by
Anton Scimitt at his improved mill
on Grant river. This will furnish
farmers o home market for one of
their crops, and give merchants a
place to buy pure oil, free of freight.
Besides the various steam saw
mills for tho manufacture of pine
and hari wood lumber, in Grant
county, we notice four tall smoke
pipes in the growing village Of Bos-
cobel, and find them we'll worthy of
notice. Mr.. J. II. Sarles has steam
works for planning, matching, split
ing and otherwise re-dressing any
sort OF lumber for the builders use.
This in connection with his large
lumber yard, enables him to fill any
order.
G.. w. .Cowan has another good
engine in his wagon factory, which
saws large quantities of oak, black
walnut &c and he has lately added
a lathe for turning wagoR-hubs. A
block of green oak timber of suitable
size is bored and reamed out at ore
operation, then fixed in the lathe,an
in less time than it takes to write it,
the curved gouges and sharp chisels
have done their work, and smooth
and perfect hub is taken out. A
thorough steaming and drying is the
next process, to prevent seasoL-
cracks, and coat of paint finishes
the hub for market.
The stave factories Of h. Palmer
& Co., and Hime 4 Co., are the larg-
est steam works in Boscobel, and
are really worthy of limitation in
every railroad town where good oak
and Eastwood timber is plenty
Many thousand dollars worth Of
stave-bolts or blocks of oak of suit
able size, are bought each winter
from the wood cutters, with cor
responding amount Of other timber
for heading. The first step in max
ing slaves is to pack the bolts in a
series OF boxes or tight rooms some
six feet square, through which, when
the doors are tightly closed, the
eteam from the boiler is driven for
somo hours. ON taking them out,
sottened and steamed to the confer,
they ero rived BY the cutting
machine into staves of the proper
thickness for flour or other barrels.
This is dangerous and difficult ma
chine 20 tend the heavy block is
held By the hand of the operator on
. moving iron table that works up
and down on its bearings so as to
force tie bolt Of wood against the
knife, and shave off q stave at each
upward movement. When it is seen
that tie machine makes 125 chips
per miAute, and that the block must
be fed up against the knife till there
is but g slight remnant left, which
must o taken from the jaws Of the
machine By light fingered motion Of
the hand, one naturally wonders that
the w6Tkmen have retained their fin
gers al they have. The slaves are
trimmed on the ends and edges by
machinery, and after thorough
seasoning packed in bundles and
sent To markets where -four is to be
bar reled. The headings are sawed
out like ehingles, .ioined and cut into
circular form ready for use, then
packed in barrels and sent to the
same market.
Those factories give labor to quite
number OF men and boys, and are
said to be paying handsome profits
to their owners.
Thsre is q large tannery at Bosco-
bel, owned by Bachman Bros. &
Kistler. This is also an uncommon
branch of business in the West, and
we are glad to see the manufacture
Of leather begun here, where hides
and oak bark are plenty. Success
to home manufactures
Observation-Disclosures, Apr O.
Amssa Walker, of Boston, made an
argument to-day before the Banking
and Currency Committee in favor Of
additional national banking facilities
and against the funding bill. The