Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1871-11-03
STAFFORD NEWS.
The Trade of the Town.

Messrs Manners, Fisher & Cos. Steam
Saw and Planning Mill and Sash Factory Is AZ
the lower end ofthe town. Mr.. Gilbern Han ,
dali is foreman; Mr.. L. E. Williams, super
intends the carpenter work On an average
twenty five men are employed the machinery
is driven by sixty-horse power engine
There are two planning and two sash machines,
four circular and scroll saws, power moruc-
ing machine, blind making machine, turning
lathe, boring and slotting machines and
cutting-of saw. Three hundred THOUSAND
feet OF round lumber are cut during the year
About thirty thousand feet of cut lumber are
also used in carpenter work. This year,
twenty-four thousand peach packing boxes
were made and an order for five thousand
packing boxes is being executed. This week
they finish a contract for furnishing one nun
hired thousand feet of lumber for the Lewes
Pier. Vessels drawing nine feet OF water
can navigate the Nanhcoke river thus lar
the river being less than a quarter OF a mile
| wide at this point. Carpenters are in demand
Wages arc about 40 cents day higher than
in the city, and house rent about 500 year
lower.
Messrs. stockley s. Reed, Nanticoke Pack
ing House, near the toll-bridge, have large
stock of canned fruit on hand, principally
, peaches, tomatoes, plums and cherries IN TWO
and three pound packages. In the season OF
| eight OF Ten Metks, lhOJ pub up pSeNNSN -,
/ and five thousand cans of fruit day. Inc
past packing season was much shorter thar
that Of last year and prices are lower.
= Messrs. Hopkins & Co. also do large can
ming business, but not being at their place 0
business when visited, information cannot b.
u given of their trade.
10 Messrs. Messick & Taylor, oyster packers
y principally ship over the Junction Break
oil water Railroad. They sell by the barre
OF bushel or gallon. Prices range from sloV !
"a 50 so barrel, from common TO extra III
It's oysters. ,u
10 Messrs. Joseph F. & r. Wiley principal
'ur do home business in fish as well as oyster
Messrs Donoho & Co., oyster packer
supply interior towns of the State, Philadelph
New York, Kentucky and Illinois with tn'
H.. products. During six months OF the year IN
'he employ about forty-tive hands ana pu',
lh, from 100 to 500 bushels Of oysters DAY. 1
second story of their establishment was pu
ant this fall -
1 ror Mr.. W. II. Parks, oyster packer, have
IA capacity for opening between 90 and
~ bushels day. They ship two cart Loads
~ shell oysters week to Wilmington, besi'
d, quantities in barrels TO other places.
md Mr.. Emery Mayne, oyster packer, averal
,en about one hundred bushels OF biyalves 9
Re- for five months in year.
~ Messrs. Adams & Ford pack Tangler Sou
a,ic salt oysters exclusively. Sixty quart cans
No oysters make case--half cases contain
,ch that quantity. They have arranged for
1erl plying their customers, without extra char
MS during the winter when the river is frozen
70 To do this oysters will be brought by {
o s from Consfield, sixty miles distant.
10y ~ Messrs. M. Colbourn IL Co., oyster-s
o ne lime merchants, have a kiln of 100 busl
the capacity; helI lllle se;,s q. ,,,,;os If
';ro bushels or more. Special railroad frel
rates are made by them.
Messrs. Jacob Knowles & Son, brickmak
.n. make about 100000 of best red, hard and
'u'n mon bricks a year. They sell at $l2,
lselt and IS thousand, respectively. The xii
leny kept going five months in year.