The Grange advance., 1873-12-31
manufactures milk safes, and does great
deal Of fancy work, such as picture frames,

manufactures milk safes, and does great
deal Of fancy work, such as picture frames,
&c.
THE RED WING MILLS
have sawed 3,514,352 fee: Of lumber the
past season, and made l,725,000 shingles,
and have also sold the whole Of the same,
and are now obliged to commence ship
ping in lumber to supply the demand.-
They will commence making -four the pres
ent week, and Mr.. T. B. Sheldon goes east
to make arrangements with purchasers,
and to investigate the markets generally.
D. C. HILL
Manufactures doors, sashes, blinds, frames,
castings, mouldings, cornices, brackets, in
short everything for the wood work Of a
house except saving the lumber. He has
car track from the lumber yard Of the
Red Wing Mills Company, running into
THE planning MILL DEPARTMENT.
In this part Of the building he has Wood
worth planer and hatcher on one side of
the track for flooring work. and another
planning and matching machine on the
other side for all other work By these
machines the rough lumber is dressed and
matched for whatever purpose it may be
used. Here also is a tenoning machine,
and circular saw for making the boards
the proper with In the
SASH AND DOOR DEPARTMENT
Is a saw for cutting the required length,
and circular saw to rip into proper
| widths. A teuoning machine, a sash and
! door sticker and mortising machine, a
reiishing machine and panel raiser for
making panels in doors, and a machine for
boring, mortsing and dove-tailing the
sash. He has also in this department a
foot power mortising machine for doing
light work In fact there are two Of these.
Then there is the sash clamp into which
the sash are placed as in vice to be made
perfectly square and pinned This finishes
them with the exception Of little hand
dressing. 1t is wonderful what an amount
of machinery it requires to make so small
a thing as sash. For making blinds he
has what is called a blind tenanting machine
to tenant the ends Of the Stats and blind
style boring machine. The Stats are then
placed in large cylinder or roller, which
is made to revolve rapidly, and the friction
produced by rubbing the Stats together
! makas them smooth Tn the
HOUSE BUILDING DEPARTMENT
is Il lathe for turning balusters on stair
ways, bracket ornaments, &c.: also two
Jig saws for cutting out fancy work, and
moulding machine for crooked and irreg-
ular mouldings.
In the new brick shop we find jointing
saw table for jointing long lumber, cor.
nices, long cases and mouldings, two saws
for general purposes, and a growing ma
chine and saw table for growing, saving
door and window frames. Here also is q
pony planer for re-planing, and planning
small work; four-sided moulding ma.
chine for dressing mouldings, &c. This
is very curious piece Of machinery and
dresses the four sides Of the timber at once
There is also hand feed matching machine
for matching boards Of irregular width
Up stairs in the brick shop the hand work
is principally done. Mr.. Hill intends II
put in three or four new machines here il
the Spring. Window and door frames art
here put together and finished off by hand
One-half of the new building is used 70,
storing manufactured stock, doors, mould
ings, tanning mills, &c.
Mr.. Hill also keeps for sale the Alumnus
sheathing and plastering boards, manu-
factured at Beloit, Illinois. This is = new
thing and is selling rapidly.
I The engine used by Mr.. Hill is thirty.
horse power. The shavings furnish suffic.
lent fuel.
He has screw cutting lathe engine 70,
turning iron and screw cutting. Also ar
iron power press drill, made in the sho1
by Mr.. Potter, for drilling and boring
iron. He has two hundred and fifty differ.
ent kinds of moulding cutters. He also
has blacksmith shop, with all the appur.
tenances. to do his own work only.
Mr.. Hill has been running q grist and
feed mill for some time in connection with
his other manufactures, with an iron-clad
French burr stone, but does no boiling
This business does not pay him, ,and he
will probably sell the machinery.