Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-13

This morning COURIER reporter
having q few leisure moments to
spare, called on few of our manu-
facturers to enquire as to the business
outlook.
The first individual called upon
was our old friend, Peter Hirschauer,
the boiler maker. Peter is one of
that sort Of people who never cry I'M
til they are hurt and to-day he is
fourishing far beyond his greatest
expectations. He is now working
more hands than he ever did before,
and working them twelve hours per
day, including Sundays. His business
is now fully fifty per cent greater
than it ever was before and increasing
at rate that is perfectly astonishing
to the patient proprietor, who has la
bored all these seven years for the
sure reward awaiting him. 1t is a
foregone conclusion that Peter will
be compelled to enlarge his business,
and that at once. He wishes us to
apologize to his neighbors for the
necessity which compells him to labor
on the Sabbath day, and while he
says he is very thankful for his pat
ronage he hopes soon to be able to
finish his work during the six days
and let his neighbors rest one day
during the week. He has just COM
pleted large boiler for Roop & Co.,
Kirkville, IA #. long by 4s inches in
diameter. A three inch tubes. A boil
err has also just been completed for
Nilburn & Co., Abba. This boiler
is Is feet long, A inches in diameter,
with 80 three inch tubes. He has
under construction, boiler for Fos-
ter b Everett, of Ellsworth, Kansas,
of the same size and quality as the
one built for Milburn & Co.
he has also commenced one for
Thos. Sewers, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 10 #.
long Sc inches in diameter, with
double flue.
Those large oil tanks for Messrs.
Daggett & Harper, built of boiler
iron, ten feet in diameter and twelve
feet high, of which there are two,
attracted more than usual attention
These tanks are curiosities and arc
large enough for a small family to
live in. They are supposed to be well
nigh perfect. Stacks, long and short
wide and narrow, large and small
are built to order on short notice. In
conclusion we may be permitted to
say that if times are dull, they do mo-
seem to have affected Peter Hirsch
auer.
Messrs. Daggett & Harper, of thu
Ottumwa Oil Works, were also Wis
tied and found to be enjoying fail
degree of prosperity. They have on
of the best oil mills in the state, hav'
, means to run their concern to its full
capacity all the while, if they find i
: to their interest to do SO. They ar
working about Is men and are usin.
800 bushels of seed per day. TIL
/. market for flax-seed is always goot
and now readily sells at $1.25 pc
bushel. They ship about Is car load
of oil cake per month, which is ship
ped direct to Liverpool via New
York. Their oil has already acquir
> ed q reputation second to none in tn
, market and finds ready sale as 500
as it is ready for the market. They
q we are glad to say, have no com
I plants to make in regard to bushes
, or the times. This firm have deyel
!, oped branch of business in thi
county which will tend largely Il
help the farmer, in that it creates
market for more diversified crop'
and helps him to leave the well bea,
en- rut of ''hog and hominy."
: The Ottumwa Iron Works, VIC di,
not have time to visit, but observes
the workmen loading a new engin
which was destined for mill up tn
country.
The Des Moines Valley Iron Work
also seem to be doing we'll and ar
running full time.
!, Mr. Tamine WAS Mt homo and eeem
!, to be as busy as he can be. He is do
ing well and is happy. He under
3 stands his business and seems to b
: flourishing. Lamme is trump ant
. when he lays himself out, Away
takes the trick. He has one of tn,
neatest little mills in the country.