Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-30
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

Of the Franco-Prussia n war--Beldfng
Bros, 4 Co.--The Parks--NIu.icnl Mat
ters---WOmnn Suffrage Meeting---
Amusements.
! CHICAGO, March Is, lS7I.-Sunshine, warm
weather, winds, clouds, rain. thunder and
| lightning, snow-tiakes 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. 2 is quoted at 1925, with an active
market.
Is abundant for legitimate business, and
regular customers find no difficulty in getting
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 a 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,
at remunerative 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
products over all the land Articles, trifling
in themselves, yet Of prime necessity, play
an important part in the industrial and COM
mercial progress of the country. The
simplest 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
HORSE NAILS
by the Patent Hammering Machines, for
illustration. They are made of Benson"
iron-the best Norway iron--imported into
RnGtpn barA inch and ppp-pipbth
square, are there drawn into bars three-sx-
tcenths by seyen-sixteenths Of an inch, and
nine feet long, and in that shape are brought
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 a 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 principle that
| the blacksmith makes them. One man tends
Il machine and keeps eight rods in llse and,
as ne takes a little time in changing rods, he
can make only about fifty nails minute.
There is one foreman to five machines, to
grind the dies and keep everything in order
These machines are operated by shafts making
l 100 revolutions a minute. bolted on 10 the
main shaft, which is driven by a steam-engne
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
straghten them and make the welded parts
of a uniform size with the original bar, and
then they are worked up as before, 80 that no
ends are lost. The nails, az fast as made, are
dropped into an iron box which, when full. is
carried into the separating room, and emptied
upon iron-coyered tablas, where all the imper
feet nails are picked out and thrown aside as
scrap iron. The nails are then packed in rs
ID boxes and labeled for market There are
six sizes numbered from 5 to 10 inclusive 8
being the medium size.
The only Horse Nail Mandatory in the
West is that of the
NORTHWESTERN HORSE NAIL CO.,
At So to 68 West Van Barren street. Chicago
established in 1862, but was Incorporated in
1864, and has working capital of about $780,
900. The officers of the company-N. Cor
WITH President G. l.. Smaey Superintend-
ent, and A. w. Kingsland, Secretary,-are all
! stockholders, and the nails are made under
their supervision. Mr.. Smalley superintends
the factory, and understands his business
thoroughly. Mr.. Kingsland, one of the orig
inators of the enterprise, manages the tinan-
cial department and the general business of
the company. He was bred to the iron man
ufacturing business, and utilizes his knowl-
edge and experience for the benefit of the
company and the public. They have the most
perfect machinery, give constant employment
to some 80 skillful workmen, who, by long
practce--like those employed on particular
part of watch--become perfect. The maxi
ers 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 coun-
try Dl1tb Of tho orra lakha and of tho
Aleghaniea. And as they spare no pans 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 a 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 1t 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 exceed that amount this year.
The establishment is not only a curiosity and
a credit to Chicago--it IL public benefaction.
EFFECTS OF THE FRANCo-FRussIAN WAR.
The Franco-Prussian war has destroyed and
disabled so many skilled laborers, and inter-
rupted the manufacture of French and Ger
man goods, so that there will be a scarcity
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 lower
ing the price. But now, though peace is re-
stored, long time must intervene before pro-
duction will reach its former amount, and
these goods must necessarily advance i'll prlce
Fortunately some of our leading silk manu-
facturers, anticipating this state of affairs
laid in large stock of raw silk at ante-war
prices, and will, for the present, supply their
customers at the old rates, and purchasers
should take advantage of this opportunity to
lay in supplies. At the head of this class is
the firm of
BELDING BROS. ANs CO.,
the largest manufacturers of sewing silk and
machine twist in America. The sales of their
wholesale houses in Chicago, New York and