Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-29
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

The Weather - Wheat--Money - Busi-
ness -- nufactures--HOrse Nails
Northwestern Horse Nal! Cc.-.Ehects
Bros 81 Co.--The Parks--Musical Mat
ters--Woman Suffrage Meeting-
Amusements-
CHICAGO, March IS, 1S1.-Sunshine. warm
weather. Winds clouds, rain, thunder and
lightning, enow-fakes and no frost in the
ground. sunshine again-this is the record of
the last two weeks. The indications now are
in favor of an early spring.
WHEAT.
No. 2 is quoted at S1.25130 .2614, 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 good many mer-
chants in the city purchasing supplies. The
country is said to be quite bare of goods,
and the premise of a 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, trif1ing
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 illus.
| tration. They are made of Benson" iron
| the best Norway iron-imported into Boston
| in bars an inch and one-eighth square, are
there drawn into bars three-sixteenths by
seven-sixteenths of an inch, and nine feet
| long, and in that shape are brought to Chicago.
They are here taken to a large factory, heated
red hot in coke-blast furnaces, put into pat
ent 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 ia
ken 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 o machine and keeps
| eight rods in use; and, as he takes little time
in changing rods, he can make only about fifty
nails a minute. There is one foreman to five
machines, to grind the dies and keep every
| thing in order. These machines are operated
| by shafts making LOO revolutions minute,
bolted on to the main shaft, which is driven
| by steam-engine of IS horse power When
the nail rods are worked up till about two feet
long, they are taken to forge, the ends heat
ed and four of them welded together by ma
chimes, which straighten them and make the
welded parts of a uniform size with the origi-
nal 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-lb boxes and labeled for
market. There are six sizes, numbered from
| S to 10 inclusive, being the medium size.
The only Horse Nail mandatory in the
| West is that of the