Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-31
CARPENTERS, BUILDERS AND coNTRAc-

in Mexico and vicinity, last year,
cost not less than $4,000. Among
them were a fine bank edifce, a sub
stantial Jail, and several handsome
stores and residences. Among the
barns built, that on the Lakeland
farm is the largest. This industry pays
out over $1,000 wages annually.
The following persons represent this
business in its several branches:
d. N. Evans. Sulllnger & Gilbert,
Bishop & Stacey, w. II. Day,
De Jarnett 6 Houston, L. Tayler. +
MEXICO CITY MILLS.
William Pollock & Co. proprietors.
This is in every respect a first-class
establishment. 1t is 81 by IS feet,
four stories and attic in height, with
lofty chimney, all costing over $780,
900, and furnishing employment for
twelve persons, besides teams. Its
boilers are of steel. 1t has four run
of burrs, hominy mill, power corn
shelter, elevator, bins, and dumping
apparatus. In short, everything
about it is of the latest and most i'm
proved character.
The annual product of this mill in
-four, is about $1,000 barrels. Last
year, about 1000 barrels were ex-
ported. 5000 bushels of corn ere
converted into meal and consumed
here. OF the $4,000 bushels of wheat
ground last year, not over 5000 ere
raised in this county. Five or six
years ago this mill depended on Au-
drain county alone for its supply Of
wheat but in consequence of the APP
pearance of the chintz bug, and the
destruction Of several successive
wheat crops, our farmers abandoned
sowing that important grain. Small
as was the quantity of wheat brought
to this mill last year, there was con-
siderably more delivered there than
during the previous one. These de-
structive insects are now e~Xtlrpated,
and the confidence Of cur farmers in
wheat is reviving. During the past
fall, a large breadth Of this indispen-
sable article of food was sOwn. Ow-
ing to wet weather, only so cars of
orn were shipped from this estab-
lishment, last year, against 300 cars
in the fall, winter, and spring of 1879
and 6.
PURCHASERS AM EXPORTERS OF PRO
DUCE.
M9ssrs. Carter & IIisey. This
firm handled over $4,000 worth of
produce last year. Its exports of
corn in 1876 exceeded 1900 cars
WOODEN MILL.
Mr.. William III. Rice proprietor.
This Mill is 30 by 90 feet with an
engine room % by 48. 1t is what is
styled a full one-set mill. Its owner
contemplates doubling its size. There
were worked up at this mill last year,
$4,000 pounds Of washed wool, Of
which $4,000 pounds wer of Audrain
county shearing. As the wool of
this county is all long, what vas re-
quired of short staple had to be i'm
ported. The goods produced at this
establishment last year, were blan-
kets, jeans, cassmeres, and common
and fancy yarns. Last Yeas pro-
duct amounted to owe $50, 600,
which was sold at home. excepting
$4,000 pounds fancy stocking yarn
exported. This mill furnishes en-
ployment for from fifteen to twenty
hands. Over 220, 900 pounds of I'M
washed long staple wool are sheared
annually in Audrain county.
PACKING HOUSE.
j, S, Jones x Co. This firm at
times employ thirteen to fifteen hands,
cuts and cures over 1000
hogs annually; but owing to bad
roads and warm weather, their bust
ness was not as large as usual in 1877.
With the late cold spell, they are
making Llp. for lost time, and will no
doub get in their usual quantity.
rLsw YASUFACToRr.
billiard & Fields. Building 80 by 60
feet, two stories high. This firm EN-
ploys from three to five hands, and
turn out from 800 to 600 plows annu-
ally, which are sold at wholesale and
retail,
BRICK YARDS
There were about thirteen hun
bred thousands Of brick manufacture
ed here last year, worth about 50, 100
ut the kiln. and giving employment
tc twenty persons.
$. W, Buckley, a. NJ. Harrison.
BEICKLAYERs:
Reed & Terry. This industry at
times gives employment to rs many
as from three to ten iourneymeI and
from eight to twenty laborers. Over
six hundred thousand brick were laid
here last yeur, the aggregate value of
which was $1,000, of which S270 was
for lime and $40 for sand.
PLAsTERERs.
Our plastcrers executed Oversee, 900
worth of work last year, expanding
oyer $500 for lime and $500 for sand.
This business was as well patronized
during 1877 as previously, and gave
employment to as many as from 10 to
20, according to condition of build
ing and demand for plastering.
John Saunders, f. Roseberry,
- Kidd.
PAINTING.
This branch of industry furnishes
employment for about nine operatives.
The following persons and firms are
engaged in it.
Il. ID. Dunbar, Gibbs & Phillips, g.
A. L Carrot, Jas. b. Chalmers,
James Hisey.
The patronage bestowed on this
industry last year vas fair, but on ac-
count of stringent times did not equal
that of the previous one ,.
BLACKsMITHS.
This industry furnishes employ
meEt for about IL mechanics; con-
sumes over $4,000 worth of iron,
steel and coal, and produces a gross
result of over $4,000. This business
was as good as usual last year.
& Brother, -Jas. Field,
Thomas Hughes, j. W Pratt.
- D ... -