The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-11-21
The two Rolling Mills can melt Is, 600 tons

The two Rolling Mills can melt Is, 600 tons
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 $4,000
tons of pig-ir6n 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 I877-8 amounted to 25O,O 600 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 a single season, was
made by McFerran, Shallcross s. Co. last sea-
son, when their cure of the celebrated Magno-
liza ham amounted to 3T5, 900.
MISCELLANEOUS.
! Of course we can not in one short article
/ give anything like 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 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 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 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 number of estab-
lshments, from which any kind of 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
which great number of axes are sent out
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, 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 500, 900, 900, in
Guiding 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,
iewelry, pork, grain, queenswsrc, 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-five or thirty banks and
BAN ling houses in the city, all of which are
doing prosperous and successful business.
The city is growing rapidly, over one thou
sand buildings being erected each year, at an
estimated cost of two and half million dol
lars. The bonds of the city are at par, and
there are many other substantial evidences of
thrift and increasing prosperity.
If there is any item that will interest the
merchants of this section more than the facts
we have stated or limited at it is the fact that
Louisville has the best hotels in the country,
and at the head of the list is the grand old
Gait House, which has recently changed hands
and has been thoroughly repaired and refitted
and under the management of Mr.. j. w
Almy the fare has been reduced to So per
day.
l In looking over reports and statistics which
, ! have been placed in our hands, feel that
we have not done the noble city justice in the
above brief sketch, and we tempted to
begin anew in another place, in ordir to men,
, ton a score of manufactures and mercantile
, interests which have been omitted; but the
'whole truth" would FIJI a single issue of the
paper, so we are constrained to stop, with the
closing assurance to our merchants and citi-
zens that 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.