The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-11-21

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 men and melts 5000 tons of metal
Other iron foundries attached to stove
works, agricultural implement manufactures,
architectural iron works, pillow factories, man
tel and CRATE factories, steam engine building
and other foundries, melt annually over
$4,000 tons, making the sum total of 900
tons of pig-irop 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.
THE PovIsIoN TRADE.
Owing to its 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 more than one-fourth of the
number handled by Louisville jobbers. Prob
ably the largest cure of sugar-cured hams ever
made in the world in single season, was
made by McFerrsn, Shallcross & 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 a complete report of the
manufacturing interests of Louisville. We
have mentioned few of the important
branches, statistics of which we have had at
hand; but there are many other items of in
terest of which we are unable had we time, to
give the facts. Among these we enumerate
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
ably above five hundred; two large paper
mills, making printing paper for books and
newspapers exclusively, employ a large force
of hands and have another million of dollars
capital invested the Faught-Deering planta-
ton horsepower, for barn and Clubhouse, is
made here; machinery and engines of all
kinds are manufactured by a number of estab-
lishments, from which any kind of an engine
may be ordered with the perfect assurance that
it will give satisfaction.
Recently an enterprising gentleman has es-
tablished an extensive axe mandatory, from
u
every year. They are of superior quality.
There are also many manufactures of trunks,
pianos, soap and candles, bolts and screws,
carriage and wagon Axles, boilers and sheet
iron goods, portable saw-mills, threshers, su-
gar mills, corn shelters, circular saws, oils
iron bridges, car wheels, bells edge tools, bel
lows, scsles iron cornces, 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 SlOo, 600, 900, in |
GLIDING merchandising and manufacturing.
We have only attempted in this article, to
enumerate few of the latter, and can not more !
than mention the mercantile interests in a |
general way. The principal branches of bust
ness are dry goods and notions, boots and !
shoes, hats, caps and furs, millinery goods,
jewelry, pork, grain, queenswarc, foreign and
domestic wines and liquors, tobacco and CT
gars, drugs, clothing, iron, hardware, furni- |
ture, books and stationery, musical instru-
ments, lumber, Fertilizers, ETC., etc.
There are twenty-fvesor thirty banks and |
baneing houses in the city, all of which are
uolhS pros porous III successful business. |
The city is growing 1Tapidly, over one thou
sand buildings being erected each year, at an
estimated cost of two and a half million dol
lars. The bonds of the city are at par, and |
there are many other substantial evidences of |
thrift and increasing prosperity.
II there is any item that will interest the |
merchants of this section more than the facts |
we have stated or limited st it is the fact that |
Louisville has the best hotels in the country, |
and at the head of the list is the grand old |
Galt House, which has recently changed hands |
and has been thoroughly repaired and reftted, |
and under the management of Mr.. j. w. |
Amy the fare has been reduced to So per
dsy.
In looking over reports and statistics which |
have been placed in our hands, we feel that |
we have not done the noble city justice in the |
above brief sketch. and we are tempted to
begin anew in another place in or lar to men
tion score of manufactures and mercantile |
interests which HAYES been omitted but the |
"whole truth" would fiji single issue of the |
paper, so are constrained to STOP with the |
closing assurance to our merchants and citi- |
zens thst Louisville is a bigger city than we |
thought it was, and that it is the best market |
in which TO purchase the articles that are |
needed in this section of country.
Hs-Correspondents would confer a favor |