The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-11-30

The Ohio Falls Car Company, at Jefferson
Vile, use 10000 tons Of metal and employ
six hundred and fifty men.
The New Albany Steam Forge employs
sixty mon and melts 5000 tons Of metal
Other iron foundries attached to stove
works, agricultural implement manufactures,
architectural iron works, p(ow factories, man.
tel and crate factories, steam engine building
and other foundrics, melt annually over
$4,000 tons, making the sum total Of $4,000
tons Of pig-lron used annually in the manu-
factories of Louisville New Albany and JEFF
fersonville in addition to which must be added
the amount handled by iron merchants.
TIE PovIs1oN TRADE
Owing to it's central position, Louisville be-
comes the natural distributing point for the
product of the Northwest. The winter pack.
ing Of 1878 amounted to $50, 900 hogs, which
composed not moro than one-tourth Of the
number handled by Louisville jobbers. Prob
ably the largest cure Of sugar.cured hams ever
made In the world in a single season, was
made by McFerran, Shsllcross & Co. last Sea-
son, when their cure of the celebrated Magno-
liza ham amounted to $4,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Of course We can not in one short article
give anything like complete report OF the
manufacturing interests Of Louisville. We
have mentioned a few Of the important
branches, statistics Of which we have had At
hand; but there are many other items Of in
tercst of which We are unable, had We time, to
give the facts. Among these we enumerste
the following: The plate glass made in Lou
isville and New Albany IS equal TO the best
French glass. The capital in this branch is
very large, and the number Of employees in
the establishments is estimated about and prob
sbly above five hundred; two large paper
mills, making printing paper for books and
newspapers exclusively, employ largo force
Of hands and have another million Of dollars
capital invested; the Faught- Deering plants
ton horsepower, for barn and Clubhouse, il
made here; machinery and engines Of oil
kinds are manufactured by number Of estab.
lishments, from which any kind Of an engine
NAV be ordered with the perfect assurance that
il will give satisfaction.
Recently An enterprising gentleman has e.
tablished an extensive axe mandatory, from
which great number Of a1es are sent out
every year. They are of superior quality
There are also many manufactures Of trunks,
pisnos soap and candles, bolts and screws,
carriage and wagon sxles, boilers and sheet
iron goods, portable saw-mills, thresher', 'u-
gar mills, corn shelters, circular saws, oils,
iron bridges, car wheels, bells, edge tools, bel
lows, scales, iron cornices, brass goods, locks,
terra Gotta drain pipes, sash, door and blinds,
etc., etc.
LOUISVILLE MERCHANTs.
The aggregate amount of business dore per
year in Louisville is about 100000, 900, in
GLIDING merchandising and manufacturing.
We have only attempted in this article, to
enumerate . few of the latter, and can not moro
than mention the mercantile interests in a
general way. The principal branches Of busi-
ness are dry goods and notions, boots and
shoes, hats, caps and fars, millinery goods,
jewelry, pork, grain, queenswsrc, foreign and
domestic wines and liquors, tobacco and CT
gars, drugs, clothing, iron, hardware, furni
ture, books and stationery, musicsl instru'
ments, lumber, Fertilizers, etc, etc.
There are twenty-five or thirty banks and
banning houses in the city, all OF which art
doing prosperous and successful business
The city is growing rapidly, over one thou
sand buildings being erected each year, at Ar
estimated cost of two and half million dol
lars. The bonds Of the city are at par, anc
there are many other substantial evidences o
thrift and increasing prosperity.
II there is any item that will interest tn
8l6FCh8Ht6 VI JuiS seCt!OH uSOIo tuoU tHo !nCt
We have stated or limited At il 10 the fact thu
Louisville has the best hotels in the country
and at the head of the list is the grand oil
Gait House, which has recently changed hand
and has been thoroughly repaired and reatted
and under the management OF Mr.. J. W
Amy the fare has been reduced to 50 pc
day.
In looking over reports and statistics whic
have been placed in our hands, we feel thu
we have not done the noble city justice in tn
above brief sketch, and We are tempted t
begin anew in another place, in orl'r to men
ton score Of manufactures and mercantile
interests which have been omitted; but tn
''who)e truth" would fill = single issue of th
paper, so We are constrained to stop, with tn
closing assurance to our merchants and cit
. zens that Louisville is bigger city than "
thought it was, and that it Is the best msrkt
in which to purchase the articles that al
needed in this section of country.