Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-03
Manufactures in Jackson.

anu iAuhsti isso VI Olnere IN our CITY anu
section. We have not time or space to
present all at once. In
CARRIAGE MAKINs
we find Lands, BURNELL s. Co. driving
q thriving business. Their factory has
been in operation here nine years, and
each member OF the firm is skilled prac-
teal workman, and served his time at
the trade. Thex work .SeYsD hands,
though before OFT two !lskfs Of gen
eraI dull business in this section, they
kept twice that number employed. They
make buggies and vehicles, and do re-
pairing. Wheels anu axles are general
" bought, but bodies and other work are
done in the shop here. II is said they
get the best material, which Is more cost
y but durable. Choice hickory and
poplar lumber Is delivered in Jackson at
SIS thousand, and the timber of West
Tenn. is excellsnt for all kinds of work.
When business Is very prosperous in this
and adjoining counties, buggies and ear
riages are in great demand and sell well.
BARNES & UNFHLETT also make and re-
pair buggies and carriages, and are
themselves experienced workmen. They
are also engaged in wagon making, and
in the undertaking business, and employ
six to eight hands altogether. Mr.. I'm
Phlett, Of the firm, IS an old citizen of
Jackson, and was in the carriage bust
ness here before the war, when it is said
he did business OF $50, 600 yea2, and
employed twenty-five hands. When
\ crop prospects are good this firm would
count on making and selling fifty or
more wagons year, or one week, OF
good substantial farm wagons, two and
four horse. One
SADDLE AND HARNESS MANDATORY
is successfully carried on here by Mr..
J. II. HmsCH. He has five hands en-
| plOyed, buys and deals in 10000 hides
1 year, has long experience in the bust
\ ness, and has been here five years. He
4 has recently added tAnnery TO his es-
1 adjustment, and he keeps for sale leath-
! er of all kinds, shoe material and find
/ ings, saddles, harness. saddlery hard
ware, &c. There are other shops here
we have not visited yet.
THE Jackson CHAMPION MILLS
owned and run by Messrs BoND & DEU-
FREE deserve notice as both useful and
profitable enterprise. The machinery is
run by steam, and the building is of
brick, two stories high, and some forty |
five or fifty feet wide, by 100 or 10 feet |
long. Grain of all kinds is ground, and |
very excellent flour made. There are
two wheat mills and one corn, which can |
all be run at once The corn mill grinds /
and bolts over 300 bushels of corn a day, |
or without boiling 400 bushels day, and /
is kept busy. There are six hands en-
ployed, and customers come eighteen or /
twenty miles. Messrs. Bond & Deupree
have all the modern Improvements in
their mills, and they buy wheat, the pay
ing price now for best being 81 Is. This
mill has been run seven or eight years.
SHANNON NOVELTY WORKS.
The large fine building, near the rail-
road junction, was er cted five or six
years ago by a stock company here, for a
planning, sash and blind factory. The es-
tablishment was called s'Shannon Nov
city Works." had good machinery, and
AN immense three story brick building,
cost $2s,O 900, and was operated about two
y I
&c, the concern die not pay, and sus-
pended or got involved in law suits, be-
fore the stockholders fully knew its con-
ditiOn, or could control or relieve it.
Some machinery was removed and used
in another factory which has been burnt.
The property is still in law-was sold
once by order of Court, but the buy
ers have not paid and are said to be una
bic to do so, The debts and judgments
still hold, and it Is not likely the stock
holders will recover their property. The
building would serve we'll as tobacco
factory, and we hope it may soon be con-
verted to that use. Tie name Shannon
may have originated from one of the first
settlers of Jackson. Two gentlemen,
Shannon and Butler, gave the first land
for founding the city of Jackson.
THE MOBILE AND OHIO R. R. SHOPS,
in Jackson, employ about seventy hands
in machine and shop work, and seven or
eight watchmen and yard hands, making
with clerk or two, about eighty man at
the shops. Some eight or ten of these
get dollar day, but all skilled work
men get from 50 % 70 50 OOa day. All
kind of repairs in metal and wood work ,
are done here, also brass mouldings and
mOuntings, and locomotives are put up
here complete. Building cars, casting
wheels, &c, was formerly done here, but ,
now new work, casting car-building,
&c, is done at other shops of the road in ;
Whistler, Ala. The shops here are good
brick buildings, and a large steam en-
CINE runs all the machinery. The road
is in three divisions, each with Il Super
intendent and separate management; the I
Alabama Division. J. 5. Walker, Super !
intendent, is 1873 miles long, from Mobile
to Macon, Miss, with large and well I
manned shops at Whistler, five miles i
from Mobile; Miss. Division, Z. 5. Hos |
ford, Superintendent, is 100 miles, from /
Macon to Baldwin, and shops at Macon; I
the Tennessee and Kentucky Division is :
l75 miles long, from Baldwin, Miss. to I
Columbus, Ky, Cecil Fleming Superin-
and shops at jackson.
The Master Machinist at the shops here
is w. I. Carson, an active young man
and skilled mechanic, and the work time
is ten hours day. There are seven col
d |
of the men are married and have
families in jackson. There are perhaps
ten others stationed here as clerks, SUI
agents, servants, &c, and
besides these there are on this Division I
fifteen locomotive engineers and ten or
more firemen, two passenger and six
freight conductors, with section and
train hands, all of whom live in jackson,
most or all the time when not on duty.
Thus about $50 employees, white and
black, 100 or more of them with families,
are added to Jackson, and Jackson's bus 7
mess. Other section hands and distant
employees on this Division, agents, &C.,
IRE never here. Express and Mail lines j
and sleeping ears may have relief force
ln the route that may also lie over here
Two passenger trains, one north and one
south, and four freight trains, two north !
md two south, run on the road each day.
All these change engines and engineers
It the shops here. There are two gravel
rains and one bridge train on this Divis-
on, and thirty engines in all.
Wages are paid 18th of every month.
md 4 rough estimate shows from eight j.,