The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-09-30
For the Register.
FROM THE CAPITOL.
Business Enterprises

The company was organized in Septem-
Der, 1871, with paid up capital of
$4,000. They employ IS hands-malc
and female. Their monthly pay roll is
$4,000; during the winter months it
reaches $4,000 The number of car.
riages, sleighs, sleds and velocipcdes an
nually sold is over $4,000, and the gross
sales reach, yearly, 100000. For the
year to come, they expect to manufacture
and sell 10000 baby carriages, 10000
boys and girls sleds, and 5000 veloci.
pedes, besides several thousand clippers.
The market is extensive. 1t includes
the United States, South America and
the West Indies. This must continue to
be the case, SO long as a million and a
balf Of children are born "pets" in our
country yearly. The carriages and
sleighs are mado in style not to be sur.
passed. The materials that enter into
their construction are first GLASS, and the
ornamentation, in gold leaf and snowy
colors, is foe indeed. The best carriages
made here command, at wholesale prices,
S1OO each-the best sleighs, SIS.
The company have facilities that en-.
able them to compete successfully with
all other manufactures of the kind. 1t
is located in the heart Of good lumber
country, where they can obtain taeir
woods from 6rst hands, right from the
stump. They have water power of un.
surpassed merit, and excellent railroad
facilities. Last year the company made
a scmi-aunual dividend OF 8 per cent
Only one thing can occur, we think, to
prevent the company from becoming very
wealthy, viz: q change in the fashions,
whereby few or no children shall be horn
in wedlock, and barrenness become pop.
ular, and matrimony unfruitful, and the
multiplication table despised and ignored
by every newly married pair. The com.
pany, however, will take their chances
OF such state Of things, and doubtless
become vastly rich. Success, say we. to
the panderers of the tastes and pleasures
Of the "little folks"
CRACKER AND CANDY MANuFACToRY.
We next visited the extensive cracker
and candy mandatory Of G. H. Cross
L. Son. They have invested 10 the busi
ness $35,U0O, and employ Is hands
They use 1000 pounds Of -four daily. Of|
sugar,they manufacture daily $50 pounds
into over 200 different kinds of candy.
Their yearly sales, including 250, 1000 ci.
gars, reach the round sum Of $4,000.
Their market is large and increasing.
They run two 4.horse teams through the
country, and one team about the town.
One.half or more of their sales are
shipped by rail. The process Of making
candy was entirely new to US, never hav-
ing witnessed anything of the kind any
where before. 1t was not distressing
sight, by any means; in fact, it was the
sweetest place" we ever visited. Its
senior proprietor, G. H. Cross, ESQ.,, is
one Of the most genial. social, and com.
panionable men we have met with in
century.
THE LANE MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
One of the chief manufacturing pur.
suits of this place. is that of the "Lane
Manufacturing Company" Its chief in.
dustrial work is the manufacture and
sele Of circular saw mills. Additional to
this. it manufactures and keeps for sale,
water. wheels, clapboard mills, planning.
machines, gearing. shafting betting, cant.
hooks. frost.dogs. saws and saw.frames,
and mills supplied in general. The works
are large and extensive. The buildings !;
and machinery cost 100000. The prin.
cipal machine shop is 'l35x5O feet, two
stories high, with basement. 1t is Of
brick, with slate roof The blacksmith
saop is 50x60 feet tho foundry 6OxS5
feet the paint shop 30x54 feet the
sawmill and wood-shop is 50xsO feet,
two stories high the building for storing
patterns 30x24 feet. The business Of.
fee is Of brick, with French roof, 24x2S
feet. All these buildings are most con.
veniently arranged for their several de.
partments, and many Of them are new
and elegant.
The company have a paid up capital
of 5000. besides $40, 900 invested il
buildings and machinery. They employ
60 hands, at wages ranging from sl.50
TO 81 per day. Their weekly pay roll
is 5000. Their annual sales reach the
round sum of Sl25,OOO. The prices of
saw mills, without saws. vary from s452
to upwards Of $1,000. Double mills
(which run two circular saws. one above
the other), including 3O.inch upper
saw. cost 5000 extra. The works are
mainly run by water power, but us last
resort, they have a 15.horse power en-.
gine. The equipment of machinery for
the execution Of their work is considered
by good judges as quite superior to those
Of most establishments of the kind. The
"band saw" and machine for making
screw bolts, and several other novel
things. were wholly new aud interesting
to US.
The popularity and high reputation Of
these saw mills is evinced By 120 printed
certificates and testimonials, show us,
from men Of reputation and influence, in ,
all parts Of the Uni ted States aud Cana.
das.
The saw mills manufactured by this
have been exhibited at numerous (
State and county fairs, generally in com.
petition with other leading mills, and
have always received the highest awards. !
Among the numerous prizes received for
the superior excellence of the Lame
Saw Mill" are three silver and one gold
medal, the latter awarded by the late
New England Fair. {
1t is properly a source Of pride to i
every Vermonter, that nearly every State I
in the Union, as well as the British pro-
vinces, have to pay tribute to the enter.
prise. genius and inventive skill of the '
Green Mountain Boys.
For these and othar nar.;aul.=a ac IL |