The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-02-13
GARDNER * BRCCE.

!, J. L. Hossack, of Ottawa, who, on Wednesday
again re sold to Gardner ~ Bruce, VINO VIII run
the establishment as heretofore
{ During the season Of navigation, from last
snrinr TO fall, The shipments of corn by this
{ bouse were 100000 bushels Cash paid for corn
5000 600; seed handled 5000; cash paid $22, 900
, corn on hand, bought since Dec. LIST last 3O,0Ot
J bushels The capacity Of this warehouse is
r $4,000 bushels, Of cribs $1,000 bushels. This
house has wagon dumps, four sets OF the best
patent elevators capable Of clcvatng $4,000
bushels every ten hours. They can ship every
ten hours 5000 bushels of grain. Thus 1t will
be seen that $4,000 bushels OF corn alone were
shipped from Seneca during last season from the
Iopening to the closing Of the canal, for which
the farmers received in cash s5S6,0O0 in cash. On
their oat crop about $4,000, and on their timo'
| thy and grass seed S51,43 more, making the
grand total Of 1904 ,s43.
| The trade in lumber, lath and shingles al SEN
cca is large. At Gardner Il Bruce'S lumber yaru
one million five hundred thousand feet OF lum-
Der, lath and shingles were handled during the
year, that is, the money invested IN iath ana
shingles would make the total in lumber as above
Since Sept 2lst, Hossack has purchased Sooooo
feet Of lumber, &c. and sold about GOO,OO OF the
same.
ROBINSON ~ Ellis
These gentlemen were able to give me no very
definite statement, rs they had just completed
for their own use general review Of business
From this wc learned that they had received in
1874 one million five hundred and thirty thou.
sand feet Of lumber; six hundred thousand
shingles; three hundred and twenty thousand
lath; three thousand five hundred cedar posts,
and probably one thousand dollars worth of
blinds and doors. Summing up these two state.
ments will give the reader fair idea OF the lum-
Der trade of Seneca.
SHIPMENTS OF LIVE STOCK.
\ brief interview with Mr.. Nickerson, the gen
tlcmanly agent Of the railroad, resulted as fol-
lows =,
During the year ending Jan. 30, $50, there
were shipped from the station, one hundred and
forty ear loads Of hogs and cattle The average
number Of hogs to a car is fifty hogs, and of cat
tie about seventeen. The weight OF car load
of live hogs i. 1900 lbs; of cattle 10000 lbs. OF
these 40 car loads of live stock, ninc-tenths
WIZ HO1N' 'lu iippdblN thi''-i'Hlth7 va N''S'
were shipped by Hoag Il DcyercauX, the
entcrprising stock buyers Of the place. BE
sides the live hogs there were many car loads Of
dressed pork which We had not time 10 look up.
BEER.
To say that Seneca is radical Temperance
town would be inaccurate at least \ close esti- |
mate by the dray and express who never gets
"sct up" and therefore does not "see double =
and whose count ought TO be reliable, gives the !
consumption as follows
Peru beer per month "a kegs; Morris beer Is |
kegs; La Sale beer "a kegs, making "A total of
III kegs of beer every month, or two thousand
and lightweight kegs Of beer per nnnum.
ARTISAN WELL
When the Rock Island Railroad company sank
An artcsian well at Seneca, they made two inn
portant discoveries which the Seneca's are now
about to utilize; these were coal at the depth of
ll5 feet and that from hole sunk to the depth Of
i29 feet and tubcd water will force itself up il
a constant stream rising nearly ;I2 feet above the
surface of the ground.
The town authorities are pctitoncd by the
people 10 sink well near the business center
If the town as public necessity which they
Sould do well to thus provide for.
Coal.
The other Of these discoveries, the first 10 be
urned to account is that of the presence OF coal.
last summer drill was run down to about one
hundred feet from the surface when vein of
'oal was found which happened to be of excel.
cnt quality and about three feet in thickness. |,
LAST summer company was formed to proceed
o mine In regular manner, but owing to a num-
Der of such draw backs as all new cntcrT rises
IRE apt to encounter the scheme fell through
soon after, however, new company was formed
ma now work is progressing rapidly The SEN
'ca Goa, company consists OF II. Bilharz, Pres
[. H. H. Thomas, Sec; 4. +. jackson, Treas.
and II. BerreiI, Sapt, and ether stockholders
The company i, organized under the general
laws "r the state. Capital stock, $1,000
The shaft is six feet by ten in the clear Three
relays or shifts Of hands work night and day
upon 1t, each shift Of men workin. eight
hours ON Monday last the depth attained was
sixty feet They expect to reach the coal in
three weeks. u
Watson's mill wa. grinding away a, busilv As
usual and business all over town seemed quite
brisk Reincmund has II respectable hardware
store south Of the canal which Is worthy of
special note, and so is Duncan & Co.'S new bake
y and confectionery, opposite RicherSon's drug
store
We lind ourself obliged to close here and omit
many other items which our want Of space
'rOwdS over until another time BEENUs
Good spring wheat flour $3.50 per hundred
pounds at Woods Eagle Mills