Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-04-21
FIGURING MILLS.

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Messrs. Dortch & .Munford are
proprieto1s of the Lafayette Mills.
Their Golddust brand is graded as
strictly fancy family on the New.
Orleans market.
The GAINESVILLE City Mills, owned
by Seat q Smith, stand at the top of
the list in the Southern markets.
There are nine prominent mills in
the country adjoining, both steam
and water power, which sell their
flour either on this market to gro
GERS and brokers or ship from this
point.
MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES.
The GAINESVILLE Wagon Factory,
a stock company, manufacture the
celebrated Irwin wagon. They COM
pete with all F; superior in workman
ship and material, their wagons are
as cheap as theshoddy importations
from other States. Jno. A. Irwin
is superintendent and 10. Elliott
general machinest. They employ
Is mechanics, and the wages paid
out per week amount to $3.50.
The GAINESVILLE Foundry and Ma
chine shop is owned by Whitfield,
Bates & Co. All kinds of machinery
are manufactured to order by them,
repairing done on short notice,
moulding department complete in
every branch, steam jet pumps and
tobacco screws a speciality. They
work 10 men and pay out $3.50 in
wages per week.
The Sewanee Planning and Floor
ing Mills are owned by G. B. Viii
son & Co., manufacturers and deal
ers of building material of every de
scription. They buy lumber from
Michigan to Alabama, but use ma
tive timber when practicable, meet
ing all competition both in price
and quality. J. ]. Myers is fore
man. They employ 80 hands, and
pay out 1920 in wages per week.
Approximate yearly sales, 100000.
Merriwether & Patch's Pillow Man
ufactory is confined strictly to the
making of plOws, do all their own
work, and take the iron and timber
in the rough state, which, passing
through the different departments,
is presented as a model pillow and
challenges competition. They are
filling orders from Texas and touch
ing the Ohio river at many points,
making inroads upon the trade so
long controlled by Avery and other
pillow manufacturers. They employ
80 hands and pay out $3.50 in wages
per week. Many other manufact-
uring interests deserve attention,
which we will note in future, but
want of space at present fOrbids.
GROCERY TRADE.
We have about ten grocery and
provision houses, prominent among
which are the firms of J. J. Crus-
man, Walter McComb & Co., and
Reese & NOrthingtOn, wholesale
and retail grOcers, provision and
liquor dealers. They carry a large
stock and do a jobbing trade extend
ing from Canton to Ashland on the
river, and from Bowling Green to
Stanton on the railroad, besides sell
ing directly to many of the farmers
of the GAINESVILLE tobacco district
The gross grocery. sales of GAINESVILLE
will approximate three-fOurths of
million of dollars. We earnestly
insist that other branches, dry goods,
hardware, hOuse-furnishing, drugs,
etc, all conspire in the assistance of
the grOcers in building up that eX-
tensive wholesale trade which our
geographical location gives.
FREIGHT ADVANTAGES.
During a greater portion of the
tobacco season we have a fine river
which, competing with the railroad,
tends to keep at the lowest paying
rate our export freight, and the en-
terprising firm of f. p. Gracey &
Bro, general transportation agents,
have done much to aid in securing
the lowest living rate acting as they
do as contracting freight agents for
the great l.. & n. railroad, they de-
liver goods at our merchants door
at only 20 cents per hundred from
Louisville. This energetic firm are
also proprietors of the wharf boat,
agents for st. Bernard, Kentucky,
coal and extensive dealers in Pitts
burgh coal, salt, hay, grain, etc.,
and have large store rooms TO pro-
tect their purchases from the
weather.
For the present we close, promis-
ing to give every enterprise our
early attention, and TO include a
briefnotice Ofour schools and church,
es, the great moral buIwarks that
guard and control our actions, which
have given us that standing abroad
for which We have for ''long years"
been noted.