Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-09

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pounds, lumber, timber, lath and
shingles 3,750,OOO feet, stone, brick,
lime, cement and stucco $4,000
pounds, salt 81, 800 pounds, coal and
coke 1,6S0,00O pounds, implements
aud machinery 3l8,O pounds, eggs,
butter and poultry 548,250 pounds,
merchandise 3,O44, 76O pounds.
Ticket receipts for 1877 $43, 423. O4.
ST. LOUIS X. C. an. r. r.
| The following statement of the
business of the st. L. X. Z, Il N. rail-
road is brief, owing to the short time
in which Mr.. Sloan had to prepare it:
Freight received. -. Al, 799, Os3 lbs
charges on same. ...... $49, 485.98
Freight forwarded. -. 81, 223, 722 lbs
Charges on same. ....... So, 1858
Tickets sold ........ $20,594.66
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF IOWA.
Freight going north on the Central
r. r. of Iowa, taken from the North
Missouri r. r. during the year 1877 !:
Merchandise in pounds !, 432, 100. lbs.
car loads -. -. 80
Cars of ties and piling ...... 563
Cars of apples, 145 or bushels 65, $50.
Freight received from the Central
R. R. Of Iowa going south on the
North Missouri r.. r.:
Merchandise in pounds 232,31O lbs.
Wheat, car loads 247 or SO, 100 bushels.
Oats, car loads 500, or 100000
Barley 63cars
Corn ..... ....... 46
Flax Seed. ......... SO
Sundries, 1873 cars or $4,000 lbs,
Tickets sid S,l55 amt. recvd. SIT ,34S.S 6
PORK BUSINESS.
The j. D. Ladd packing house is
now being operated by John Nor
rell e Co., of Chicago and Liverpool,
England, and they are doing quite a
large business. Notwithstanding
the few weeks Of unfavorable wealth
er, they have killed about 5000 hogs
since the middle Of November to
date. They came here with the in
tention of locating permanently, and
cutting meats not only for England
and European trade generally, but
also for the local western, southern
and eastern market. For their En-
glish trade they cut their meats diff
ferently for almost all the different
counties or shires in England, be-
sides they prepare special cuts for
Paris, Scotland and Ireland; most of
their meats are distributed from their
Liverpool house. They have a resi-
dent agent in Paris and are engaged
in putting up meats for the Exhibi-
ton next year, and do quite a large
business in American product which
goes in direct competition with the
best French production.
They are now building an immense
ice house, capable Of holding several
thousand tons of ice, and intend to
prosecute their business the year
round. If the necessary ice cannot
be had here they will get 1t elsewhere
and business will 90 on.
A capital of about $4,000 is requir-
ed to run house ofthis kind.
John Morrell, the head of the
house, is a veteran, having followed
the provision business for over 40
years.
The house in this city is presided
over by Chas. Z. L. Greyson, who at.
tends to the financial affairs of the
concern.
w. d. McCue is foreman, and un-
der this management the house is
running along smoothly. They work
q large number of hands.
THE oTTUMwA IRON WORKS AND JOHN
sTON RUFFLER Co,
during the past year did q manufac.
turing business of sixty-five thousand
dollars; paying out to hands in their
employ over twenty-seven thousand
dollars. Their business in the gem
eral manufacture of machinery, and
sewing machine attachments, taken
together, they report as improving.
DURFEE & POLLARD
manufactured buggies, wagons, the
new work $1,000; repairs 1000 total
$4,000.
WAPELLO MILL.
This mill has good run on custom
work, and makes corn meal, rye and
buckwheat -four, feed, &c. Earnings
for past year about $1,000.
CITY MILLS
have been making some repairs.
Since harvest had q good business
running principally on wheat, both
merchant and custom work. Wheat
from Northwestern Iowa, Kansas and
Nebraska.
oTTuMWA OIL MILLS.
Messrs. Daggett & Harper, of the
Ottumwa Oil Mills, have handled TO-.
600 bushels Of fax seed during the
year. and have manufactured 1900
gallons of oil since September last.
They still have large quantity of
seed on hands. Their business has
increased 80 per cent. over 1876.