Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-28
From the Montpelier August
Manufacturing business of Mt.
Holly.

| with q s.uall water power mill contain
| ing one up and down saw, at the upper
mill now known as A. w. Gray u Co.'S
| tub mandatory. 1t had its shifts from
one owner to another till twelve years
| ago the Messrs. Graves commenced to
manufacture butter tubs. From small
| beginning it increased year by year I'M
| til large circular mill was put IN and
| other machinery to facilitate the filling
| of the rapidly increasing orders. The
mill runs the wear round and Is now
under the name of A. w. Graves & Co.,
| consisting of A. w. Graves of Mount
! Holly, who is always to be found at the
mill, and E. G. johnson of East Wall
ingfOrd, who is the selling and cores
pOnding member of the firm. Mr..
Graves owns a large farm close to the
mill, and Mr.. johnson owns quite tas-
ty residence and farm at Centeryille,
near East WallingfOrd' The sales this
wear by this firm amount to twenty
thousand butter tubs and two hundred
and fifty thousand feet of soft and hard
wood lumber, and they have yet four
| and one half months to finish their full
wears work up in Their sales amount
to over ten thousand dollars cash now.
This is the first mill at the head OF Mill
river 1t employs from six to ten men,
who live in tenements furnished by the
company.
The next mill below that of Graves &
johnson, is Mr.. Dckermans, who has
a water power mill, circular and other
saws. and two sets of the patent head
iiggers. Mr.. Dickerman annually sells
abOut three hundred thousand feet OF
hard and soft wood lumber. and about
TWENTY-FIVE car loads of chair stock. He
will fill any mans order for dimension
lumber as quick as any of them, and has
the bows ready to do it with. His sales
amount to about twelve thousand dollars
per year. Mr.. Dickerman also does a
large amount of teaming, etc, not d.
rectlv connected with the mill business.
This is water power number two on
Mill river and is about half mile from
Graves & Co. s mill. This mill employs
from six TO ten men, who are all fur-
nished with houses, except those who
own them. by Mr.. Dickerman.
5 M. TarbeIl's rake factory is about one
5 mile from Mr.. Dickermans mill. Mr.
? TarbeI now employs about twenty
} FIVE men. most of them the year round
2 making thirty thousand rakes year,
: which are shipped to all parts OF the
s world. He produces annually hundre9s
, | of fork handles, numberless thousands
I q
g thousand feet of hard and soft wood
: Inmher He ships a car load of chair
Y stock every eight days. His mill runs
Inv water and has two wheels. Mr.. Tar
/ hell Is certainly the most ''selt made
!, man. of the whole number Of Mount
Y Holly manufacturers. He has been
: swept clean by fire once, and to-day we
; find him as busy as ever in his business,
running all parts of it, being his OWE
q buver. seller. and boOk-keepeT, and traY
o cling. buying. selling, trading, etc, as
/ if he were made of iron. His sales are
is enormous. and in the month of July ht
o Skinned six thousand six hundred anC
twantv-fouf rakes in small lots and sly
n fnll car loads of them, besides his forH
handles. lumber, clapboards, and foul
!, car loads of chair stock. He has expend
il cd twenty thousand dollars within few
wears in buildings, and expects soon L
D. add a forty-horse power engine 10 III
ia shop to enable him to get the full amour
Re off mower needed. Many OF his mel
have been with him for years, ana al
IN are furnished with tenements by MIN
. Among the curiosities to be seen at thi
10 mill is Mr.. Add Warner, ''blind man,
s. Who does any kind of work in the mill
of fyes any kind of machinery, and turn
IN ali the long fork and rake handles q
well as the best, and great deal qulcB
or than the average. No one else doe
y. 4 anv work on his lathe, or fixes 1t, an
~: ~ vel it runs complete. This mill IS VIVA
Id e known as Tarbellville. There IS
- GOOD store kept there by 5. ii. LIVING
~" ION. two blacksmith shops, pubIc ma
and a plumber of dwellings
The mill of Merrill Graves is abot
m two miles from that of Mr.. Dickermar
ON and over the mountain top towards We
on TON Mr.. Graves gets out annual
e. ahont one hundred and fifty thousan
.et feet of hard and soft wood lumbe
p which easily finds market. Mr.. 6raVl
let also works a large farm and IS not e
he tirelv devoted to manufacturing. lin
self and son do most of the work {
Ia both the farm and the mill.
he The fifth of the mills are owned
he the Allard Brothers, who nave oWh'
of them about two years. They are no
ay getting out about three hundred thog
: and feet of hard and SOFT WOOD poaIu
us and thousands OF teeL o. ullnenslol ia
me Inr and are ready to fill orders for an
viii thing in the lumber line. They are g
inc 70 nut in some of the patent Jlgge
ION soon and will then make chair stock
The eneciality. They have several lots
on land ON the mountain, and have enoul
re- lumber there to last them for sever
et- years. T.. e,;.,,od .,
Tho is about ready to start new miil. ~
les. Tarhell will devote himself exclusive
d / ~ the manufacture of clapbOards, a
to will have a grist mill in connection WI
It'll his mill Mr.. T. being practical ma
the or of clapboards and thorough u
ere chanic. no one fears but what he W
and be successful in his new venture:
on. mill is one hundred rods below the
ty, of the Allard Brothers.
Mr.. Fifeld has a mill about -
the above the Allard Brothers mn "hi
e as was formerly run by Mr. Hemh1 nsifn
: to as muliey saw mill. ms alI. - III
;ful who is a practical mill-Wrlght' Cs an
us. lived in the north part Oh ihe S' a.
our ing large amount OIL VIZ r.I ~ o,,a I
S of rious mill owners thereapouUs' one
our ba1nened to see the mill and bout
:, and from an old mill, with TWEEN
~ foot fall. a new circular mil
!. - snrnng M. with seventy feet fall,
les: from an old muddy pool of twenty
227 acres a new dam and large reserE
~ of three hundred and fifty acres
20 snrung into existence. Mr.. flneld
% Thousands of acres of timber la
l which he can get the control Oh II
263 WISHES con n hinder Mr.. Fifield doing v
7 70 phi 20 ore not afraid of that. A I
10 road is soon to be built, when
cted mt him lust two and half miles =, II
the depot and all the way down mn.
atri- 2. Z. Chases I malh = and is Nh
5ioh the control of Capt. L. Il. Cnase,
h Of the representative men of the to