The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-06-20
MANUFACTURES.

The buildings of the Terre Ha ute Car
Works cover three acres of ground.
Brick making in Denver is being carried on
this season with unusual activity.
cotton mill in Norwich, Conn, is said to
be the largest in the world, it's capacity ITO,
900 spindles.
The wooden mill at Leavenworth, Kansas,
received the other day, st. Louis order for
SIC 0U0 worth of blankets.
large paper mill is in course OF erection
at Milton, Wayne county, Ind. 1t will be In
operation by the middle of June.
The Bangor IRON Company, with a capital
of $500, 900, are erecting their buildings at
Bangor, Van Buren, County, Mich.
Geo A. Prince g. Co., Buffalo, manufacture
nearly four thousand cottage and parlor or
yans per annum, with force of two hundred
men.
The new opposition gas works in Detroit
are nearly ready for operation. They are
capable of producing one million feet of gas
per day.
More than four hundred beet sugar manu-
factories exist in France, the industry having
risen gradually to one of first class impor~
lance.
The Novelty Works Of Indianapolis are put
ting up stack 100 feet high ard feet in di-
meter and an air chamber, for the manu-
facture of malleable iron.
There is considerable strife among Mime
sofa towns to secure the. locationof the ST. Paul
and Sioux City machine shops. LIE Sueur Off
cred a bonus of SAC, 900.
The City Council of Biddeford, Me-, has
voted to exempt new manufacturing estab-
lishments from taxation for ten years, when
the amount invested exceeds $4,000.
Chickering & Sons have lately invented
piano, which is built in peculiar style with q
circular scale, which give to the instrument
the power and tone of grand piano.
Artificial leather is now made from the
scraps and cuttings of the leather cutters.
It is claimed that the leather thus made is
equally good for soles or betting as the orig
inal.
The Seymour Manufacturing Company has
been organized, with capital of $50 900, for
the manufacture of grain plows, scythe-
snaths, hubs, spokes. etc., at Seymour, Ind.
Mitchell. Vance & Co., N. Y, have COM
menced the manufacture of cut glass chan
neliers. The results show the gas fixtures to
be light, symmetrical, and adapted to Amer
lean ideas.
The National Rubber Works at Bristol, r.
l., have finished q rubber belt within a few
days. IT'S feet in length, four feet in width,
and half an inch thick, which weighs 1000
pounds.
The directors Of the Car Company whose
establishment at Jacksonville, Ind, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire, have accepted the
offer of the insurance companies to pay them
$l7O, 900 in full for their loss.
An English firm is doing quite sn extensive
business IN supplying Australia with iron
dwelling houses, manufactured in England,
and set up at short notice by English nae
cnanics wherever the purchaser desires.
A. 3. Meeker. and others interested in the
Joliet Rolling Mills offer to locate a furnace
land are furnished, and compleJe water nav
igation guaranteed them to the bog ores in
Indiana
The Remington Gun Factory at Ilion, n.
Y, gives employment to 1,400 men, and re
quiras three miles of shafting, and 25 miles
OF betting within the works. The average
capacity OF the works is 100 rifles and 200
pistols per day.
Messrs. Nichols, Shepard & Co.. of Battle
Creek, Mich, are building 1000 of their "Vi>
orator" threshers the present season, a large
number of which will be shipped to the Pa
cifc coast. They have already commenced
shipping to that point.
A new glue size for paper makers has been
discovered which is said to be 50 per cent
cheaper than that in common use. It is COM
posed OF soda, powdered resin, glue and boil
ing water mixed in ascertained proportions
Starch can be added when required.
The Collins Company, Collinsvile, Conn.
use material of various kinds, in the manu-
facture of steel plows, axes, machines, etc.,
estimated as follows 5000 tons of coal
5000 tons of iron 600 tons of steel, 400 tons
of grindstones, and 300, 600 feet of lumber.
The annual sales amount to 81 100000.
Chidester & Co., large manufacturing
company or Jersey City, N. j., are soon to
erect a sash and blind factory at Burlington
VT. The building will be l75x10O feet. and
The new business will employ one hundred
and fifty men.
Since the close of the war the sale of fire.
arms have so decreased that the hands at
Colts Armory have been reduced from $500,
30 500. Sharp's rifle factory has been con-
verified into sewing machine factory, and
Colts revolvers and Calling guns into Bax-
ter engines and lawn mowers.
Silk IS raised in California and som Of the
Southern States equal to the best Italian !;
and in Patterson, N. i, our manufacturers
make machinery and weave silk fabrics which
compare in favorable manner with the best
productions of the French and English looms.
Artificial stone, emery wheels, homes, and
other ike matters, are now manufactured by
the Union Stone Company at Everett, Mass
For this manufacture large masses of raw
magnesite, or carbonate OF magnesia, are
imported from Greece, California, Mary la nd
and elsewhere,
The Wabash, Lafayette and LAX 20 Michi gan
Mining and Manufacturing Company has
been organized at Lafayette, with a capital
OF bl,0OO,OO0 The objects are to operate the
coal fields OF Warren, Fountain and Ben ton
counties, and the manufacture of iron an d
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