The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-07-16
EsIPORIA TOWNSHIP MANIAC.

Mr.. hall, assessor of Emporia township,
hands us q schedule OF the manufacturing
business carried on in Emporia township
outside Of the city, from which We collect
the following figures:
Soap factory, d. A. Stahl. proprietor,
capital 81 800; employees 4; wages paid last
year, $500; number OF months in sctiVe
operation full time months; material,
chemicals and tallow; production soap,
{, 500 pounds, value $500.
FIGURING mill, w. T. SOden, proprietor;
-, 900 capital; water power; 4 run OF
burrs, with fixtures; I'VE employees; II
months in full operation per year; wages
last year $4,000; production 5000 barrels
Of -four; value sS0, 900.
Saw mill, w. T. Soden; $500 capital
water power; one circular saw; three en-
ployes; wages last year 1856; active oper-
alton 3 months; production 1877 600 feet OF
lumber; value 81, T60.
Brick yard, A. S. Pollard; 81 500 capi-
tai; horse power; 3 moulding and one
pressing machine; employees; wages last
year $1,000; full operation 8 months; pro-
duction "a, 200 brick; value $500.
Brewery, +. II. Aacke; capital 81 500;
horse power; one malt; mill watts, 90
hogsheads. 400 kegs; employees; $1,000
wages paid last year; full operation IL
months; used Is, 900 bushels of coal; pro-
duction 700 barrels Of beer; value 5000.
School, ONCE and house furniture, GIL
more & Arnold; capital $4,000; water
power; one planer, one moulding machine,
one mOFticing machine, two sersol saws,
one boring machine, one tennoning ma
chine, one doweling machine, one ginning
machine, ) turning lathes, 3 buzz saws;
ten employees; 81 ,e61 paid for wages last
year; active operation 10 months; used
| 80, 600 feet Of black walnut, 1890 feet OF
native soft wood, aud one thOurand feet Of
pine and poplar; production SI5, GOO worth
OF furniture.
FIGURING mill, Thos. Armor; capital
| SIC, 600; water power; two run Of burrs,
with fixtures; one employee; wages paid
last year $500; active operation months
production 1000 barrels of -four, value
50, 900.
Saw mill, II. &. Thompson; capital So
900; water power; ONE circular saw; TIVE
employees; wages $500; active operation
five months; production II. 600 feet OF lum
Der, value 5000.
| Foundry, machine, carpenter and pat
tern makers shop, Jones, Hughes q Co.;
capital SO, 600; so horse steam power;
engine, 2 engine lRthes, 1 drill lathe, en-
CINE pattern maker, fans, 1 rumbling
machine, plunger, 4 vices, 1 cupOla, IL
crucibles, blacksmith and machinest, pat
tern maker and carpenters tools, all com
plete; % employees; wages paid during
the year 81, 11s; active operation twelV'
months; materials used 10000 pounds
scrapiron, 500 pounds copper, 200 pound
tin; also, Rabbits metal, scrap brass, &C.
1900 pounds coal and 8, 500 OF coke used
quantity lumber; sundry amounts of sand
cinders, wood, &c. Some Of the produc
lions and work done are as follows: Re
pairing engines $500, hay press $500, saw
mill 500, grist mill $3.50, farm imple
ments $500, boiler $3.50, rolling mill $4eO
iron points made $4,000, sash weight
$500, CRATE bars $500, cornices $1,000
work ON elevators, $500, do, on coal shaft
$50; making novelties $175, Initials $4,000
These four manufactures constitute a
least q substantial basis for q large manu-
featuring industry. They have all beel
in operation n number Of years, are sci
sustaining, and the prospect is that al
will steadily increase their operations
There is considerable water power on
both rivers, even in this township, whicl
is not yet are brought into use. AS first re
marked, the list embraces the manufacto
ries In the township outside of Empori
city.