The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-09-11

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| Klein proprietor,
LON rfEDGUE
ALWAYS rets lp u GOOD meal at his place
ON Main street, east of La Sale, where he also
runs first class bakery and confectionery
store.
| Marble Cutters.
We have several good marble cutters in
Ottawa, among whom we note
ED. McISHlLL,
whose shop Is on La Sale street, opposite
the opera house. He put up the SOLDIERS
Monument, doing the most difficult portions
of the work himself He also made tue Croft
lty and O'Lcary monuments, al seneca, the
| Killela and Price monuments at Ottawa, the
Edgecomb monument in Waltham and 9TH
ers. He has had an experience OF ~ years
a2d runs from six to ten men.
c. F. BENNETT,
on Columbus street, near Judge Lock
woods office, is very superior workman
and has IN his employ Mr.. Baldwin, one Of
The hest designers and most skillful artists in
the west. Some of the first monuments IN
La Sale and adjoining counties were design
ed and cut out o. marble by him.
LOUIS GAGLE.
At the west end of the iron swing bridge,
men, and has done many very good jobs in
all parts of the county He usually requires
the services of five or six hands. -
GEORGE PARKER .f
has marble cutting shop on Columbus
street north of the canal He began business
year ago, after having been Jour" about
% years.
The Grain Business.
W H. CAREY,
whose elevators will be found at the head Of
La Sale street on the main canal during last
wear handled five hundred thousand bushels
of grain, and paid out in cash to farmers
about 100000 The capacity OF his ware
house and elevator is is about $4,000 bushels
per day when driven to its fullest extent.
E. RICHARDSON SON.
Their warehouse and cribs are at the side
cut on Madison street They have been IN
business 20 years-in the grain trade years.
They also run two warehouses at Streator
They handled at Ottawa during the past year
about 300 900 bushels, and about 100000 bush
els at Streator. They paid out 100000, or
about $1,000 per day.
sTRAwN & POWELL.
These gentlemen have an elevator and crib
on the side-cut, midway between Madison and
Lafayette street. They have shipped during
the year about 100000 bushels OF gram, pay
ing therefor IN the ncighborhood of $l50,000
They can handle 5000 bushels OF grain per
day.
sHULRR BROS.
| This firm have warehouse on Main street,
on the west side Of the side'cut. They also
run two canal boats of their own, in which
they ship grain 10 Chicago and return loaded |
1, Inn, Ior p1 m 1phi ri
they deal They began business in 1864. The
capacity of their present warehouse Is 100000
bushels. They shipped last year over 800, 900
bushels of grain. In the same time they
sold 800 tons of hard coal, at one dollar per
ton above Chicago prices.
H. L. HossACKs
Warehouse is at the eastern end of the new
Iron swing bridge over the side-cut. The
building has capacity of 100000, is 80 by
11S feet, has six patent dumps, and last year
handled 200, 900 bushels CT grain. 1t can load
n boat in 80 minutes containing 60O0 bushels.
He paid out here and at Seneca $3.50, 900 to far
mers. He has a new brick office building
! 10 by % feet and bran new Fairbanks
scale just put in, and other improvements.
The Lumber Trade.
| This is big item in the business OF Ottawa.
There are thousands of miles of fences TO be
kept IN repair, 10 be built or rebuilt, and
houses and barns to be put up all oyer this
county every season; hence the extent OF the
lumber trade of Ottawa.
sHULER BROS
During the past year this firm shipped
here and sold $25 900 worth of lumber Of all
sorts
YOUNG & RYAN.
This popular firm is located on the north
- al. Il \ Snlt. nakl
season they sold in Ottawa 100000 latn, 90, 900
post 2,500,000 feet OF lumber and 1000 kegs
Of nails. They pay out $4,000 for help, own
5000 acresl Of pine lend in Michigan, and
manufacture their own lumber They run
25 men and % teams in summer and 100
hands in winter; and are also contractors and
builders and energetic, live, honorable men.
PHILLIPS s. co.
have lumber yard north Of Lafayette street,
on the side-cut. They were established in
1871. They sell 100000 feet of lumber a
year, 100000 shingles and 100000 lath.
coLwELI, CLARK Il co.
This is the name of one of the most ener.
getlc and enterprislng firms of contractors
and builders IN the state of Illinois. They
have built most of the fine public and private
buildings that have been erected in Ottawa, or
La Sale county for that matter, during the
last ten or fifteen years. They are now put.
ting up the Pontiac court house, 100000
job; the La Sale county poor house, $40, 900;
Mat Whites hotel, $4,000; ana other houses,
barns, &C, in various localities They have
Just about completed the Opera House, cost
ing $50, 900. They have employed during the
summer just past an average of go hands,
and their weekly pay roll has averaged about
$1,000.
They have a first-class planning mill, with
all the modern improved machinery for saw
ing, planning aid matching lumber, making
sash, doors, &c. They deal in lumber ex.
tensively. During the past season they
bought and sold here so loads, or 100000
feet, and they do an extensive hardware bust
ness, buying their nails by the carload. John
and James Colwell have been in business
here about 10 years, Mr. Clark about 2years,
They are live men and IN their energy and