Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-03-24

| Parks-MusicaI Matters-Woman Suffrage
acknowledgements.
CHICAGO, March IL, ,1S71.-Sunshine, warm
weather, winds, clouds, rain, thunder and
| lightning, snow-fakes and no frost in the
ground, sunshine again-this is the record of
| the week. The indications now are in favor
of an early spring.
No. is quoted at $l.25, with an active
| market.
| Is abundant for legitimate business, and
regular customers find no difficulty in get
ting discounts at the banks.
| BUSINESS
| Shows signs of considerable activity, and
though it is yet early for the opening of the
spring trade, there are good many mer-
chants in the city purchasing supplies. The
country is said to be quite bare of goods,
and the promise Of large trade this season,
atremunerative prices, is better than last year.
MANUFACTURES
| have contributed largely to the prosperity
| of Chicago. Many manufacturing establish
ments have grown from small beginnings to
mammoth proportions, sending out their
pr oducts over all the land. Articles trifing
| in themselves, yet of prime necessity, play
| an important part in the industrial and COM
me rcial progress of the country. The
mplest instrument often undergoes great
variety of processes before it is transformed
| from the raw material into perfect shape,
| ready for use. Take the manufacture OF
| by the Patent Hammering Machines, for
| illus tration. They are made of Benzon"
iron--the best Norway iron-imported into
Boston in bars an inch and one-eighth
| square, are there drawn into bars three-six-
| teenths by seven-sixteenths of an inch, and
| min foot1 nd in th of Chana hr0upht
to Chicago. They are here taken to large
factory, heated red hot in coke blast furnaces,
put into patent hammering machine, which
holds the bar, feeds it, strikes it eighteen
blows, and then cuts it off perfect nail, all
in the space of one second, and this process
| is repeated till from eight to twelve nails
are made, when the bar is returned to the
| furnace, and another taken out. They are
| essentially hammered nails, being drawn
from the end of the rod on the same prlncl-
! pie that the blacksmith makes them. One
man tends machine and keeps eight rods
| in use; and, as he takes a little time In
| changing rods, he can make only about htty
nails a minute. There is one foreman to
| five machines, to grind the dies and keep
| everything in order. These machines are
operated by shafts making i 100 revolutions
| a minute, belted on to the main shaft, which
| is driven by steam-en6ine OF 75-horse
| power. When the nail rods are worked up
! till about two feet long, they are taken
| to forge, the ends heated and four of
them welded together by machines, which
| straighten them and make the welded parts
of a uniform sizd with the original bar,
and then they are worked up as before, SO
! that no ends are lost. The nails, as fast as
made, are dropped into an iron box, which,
when full, is carried into the separating
room, and emptied upon iron-covered tables,
where all the imperfect nails are picked out
| and thrown aside as scrap iron. The nails
| are then packed in 25 ID boxes and labeled
| for market. There are six sizes, numbered
| from to 10 inclusive, 8 being the medium size.
| The only Horse Nail ManufactOry in the
| West is that of the
| NORTHWESTERN i,oRsE NAIL CO.,
| At Sc to 6S West Van Buren street, Chicago,
established in 1862, but was Incorporated in
| 1864, and has a working capital of about
| $50 900. The officers of the company-N.
| Corwith, President; G. L. Smalley, Superin-
tendent, and A. W. Kingsland, Secretary
| are all stockholders, and the nails are made
under their immediate supervision. Mr..
| Smalley superintends the factory, and un-
| derstands his business thoroughly. Mr..
| Kingsland, one of the originators of the en-
terprise, manages the financial department
! and the general business of the company.
| He was bred to the iron manufacturing busi-
ness, and utilizes his knowledge and expe-
| rience for the benefit of the company and
the public. They have the most perfect ma
| chinery, give constant employment to some
| so skillfu1 workmen, who, by long practice,
like those employed on aparticular part OF
| q watch-become perfect. The makers OF
their iron are under heavy bonds that every
| bar of iron furnished shall be perfect. Their
style of nails is adapted to the Western trade,
and their sales extend over all the country
south of the great lakes and west of the AL
| leghanies. And as they spare no pains or
expense to make every nail perfect, and
every package is warranted, no other horse
nail has the reputation of being so uniformly
| good and of so desirable shape. 1t is the
most popular and reliable horse nail in the
country, is staple article with all leading
| houses, and, as it is sold at New York prices,
| it supersedes all other kinds wherever its
merits are known. They run twenty-five
machines, day and night, most of the year,
| and can make two tons of nails in ten hours.
They made 600 tons last year, but will ex-
ceed that amount this year. The establish
ment is not only curiosity and credit to
| Chicago-it is public benefactlon.
| EFFECTS OF THE FRANCo-PRUssIAN WAR.
The Franco Prussian war has destroyed
| and disabled so many skilled laborers, and
| interrupted the manufacture of French and
German goods, so that there will be search
| ty, especially of silks and the finest fabrics,
| for some time to come. The first effect OF
the war was to throw large quantities OF
these goods on the English market, thereby
| lowering the price. But now, though peace
| is restored a long time must intervene before
production will reach its former amount, and
these goods must necessarily advance in
| price. Fortunately, some of our leading silk
| manufacturers, anticipating this state OF
| affairs, laid in large stock of raw silk at
| ante-war prices, and will, for the present, sup
| ply their customers at the old rates, and pur-
chasers should take advantage of this oppor
tunity to lay in supplies. At the head of
this class is the firm of
BELDING BROS. Il CO.,
| the largest manufacturers of sewing silk and
| machine twist in America. The sales of
| their wholesale houses N Chicago, New
York and Cincinnati, last year, reached
$3.50 900, their Chicago house, at 56 and So
Wabash avenue, taking the lead. Pur-
chasers should always ask for Belongs sew
ing silk, noted throughout the whole coun
try for being the best in the market.
THE PARKS.
Chicago is in muddle about her parks.
The Park Commissioners have used up all
their money and have not paid for the land,
and are besieging the Legislature for power
to raise more to enable them to complete the
purchase according to law. They were en-
powered to assess contiguous property, under
the name of benefit" to a sufficient amount
to pay for the condemned land, and thought
they had done so, but the enhanced value of
the property taken leaves them in the voca-
tive, and now they want authority to revise
and increase their original assessments.
MUSICAL MATTERS.
We have had surfeit of public music,
including lectures by George Francis Train
who is just now undergoing imprisonment
in the County Jail for debt of some $40,
incurred in bill-posting him some two years
ago, which lie refuses to pay. Then we
have
TWO DAYS WOMAN SUFFRAGE MEETING
of the Cook County Association, being the
anniversary meeting, with Mrs. Stanton,
Miss Anthony, and other advocates, in ses-
sion at Farwell Hall.