Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-12-26
UPHoLsTERER.
w. Hinze.
SPRING BED BOTTOM FACTORY.

worth OF Wnite leau. SZ,uoU
worth of glass, and $4,000 worth of
oil were sold. This business
is well represented by the following
J. T. Llewellyn, s. S. Craig & Co.,
Scharlach s. Hall, +. S. Kelley.
A. III. Patterson.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
There were over $40, 900 worth of
boots and shoes sold this year by the
dry goods houses and the following
firms:
Rutledga & Treloar, Geo. Hablutzel.
Boston Shoe Store, ID. 9. Knoder,
Geo. II. Runkle, FL. Frank,
d. Tomlinson.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY.
Sales in this line amounted to $685.
600, of which over one-half were of
home manufacture, employing from 10
to 10 persons.
Jas. Pasqueth, Bragg u Hiner,
A. E, Ryerson, j.. w, Ragsdale.
CLOTHING.
About $50, 900 worth of clothing is
sold here annually by the dry goods
houses and L.. Philip and I. Frank.
About $4,000 worth is made up here.
BOOK STORES.
Tie sale of books and stationery
amount to about SIS, 900 annually, and
employs about four persons.
Sallee & Brooks, S. P. Martin.
JEwELRY, WATCHES AMI CLOCKS.
This business employs 3 persons
and amounts to about SIS, 900 annual
ly.
| Marx Pitcher, l.. B. Fetter,
VIM. r. Beck.
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Joseph Murray.
CHINA AND GLASSWARE.
From $4,000 to $4,000 worth OF
china and glass ware was sold here
this year by the grocery, dry goods,
hardware and china stores. There Is
but firm deyoting exclusive attention
to this business.
j. S. IusleY.
SEWING MACHINES.
The following sewing machines are
sold here: Singer, St. John, Wilson,
Domestic, American and Elliptic.
This years sales amounted to about
Sc, 900, and were less than usual ow-
ing to the condition of finances. Three
persons find employment in this ausi-
ness.
Jas. b. Clark, 5. l.. Mexican.
GUNsMITH.
S. l.. Mexican.
NEWS DEALERS.
Sallee d Brooks. w. P. Frost.
nnilry niunI,ln+1nn Of Po,,1gIIiarY1 nnH
GlO6e-Democrd from 100 to 120 cop
les.
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
E. d. Graham, j. G.. Head.
LUMBER YARDS.
The lumber business furnishes EN-
plcyment for II persons, besides
teams. PA car loads lumber were
brought here this year, of which 2l0
came from Chicago, and IA from St.
Louis. Sales in this line amounted to
over $50, 900. There was a good de-
mand throughout the year from this
and Monroe and Galloway counties.
This important heSiness is well and
fully represented by tb1 following
firms.
Jay Coatsworth, josiah Wright,
D. n. Evans,
CARPENTERS, BUILDERS AND CONTRAC-
TORS.
This is an important industry, fur
nishing employment tor as many as 20
and often 40 mechanics. The build
ings erected IN and around Mexico
this year cost in the aggregate $780,
000. Among them vas the new Ca
tholic church and several fine residen-
ces and barns. Messrs. Robinson,
Carter and Cunningham erected the
best Of the barns, and Messrs. Brown
and French the handsomest dwellings.
There was considerably more imprOv-
ing, enlarging and repairing than usu-
al. This industry pays out over SlO,-
900 wages annually. Tie following
persons and firms represent this bust
ness in all its varieties:
ID. n. Evans, w. G. Barnes,
J. r. Bishop. Thos. Pagan,
d. q. Wright, j. G. Shepherd.
MEXICO CITY MILLS.
William Pollock & Co., prOprietors.
This is in every respect a frst-class
mill. 1t is $40 feet, four stories
and an attic in heighth, with lofty
chin ney, all built at an outlay ofover
$4,000, and furnishing employment
for II persons, besides teams. This
fine mill has steel boilers, four run OF
burrs, dumping apparatus and yenti-
latOrs attached to the dust room of its
purifiers to prevent accommodations
similar to those that produced the de-
structive explosions that occurred in
the Minneapolis mills. This estab-
lishment is connected by switches with
the G. & A, and st. L., X. G. & N.
railways, SO that the roads can load
and deliver at the mill without carriage
or handling. In short, everything
connected with this mill is of the la
test and best %cparacter, and no better
-four than its choice brand is made
any where. Last year the product of
this mill ran up to 1900 bbls flour,
Of which about 1000 were exported,
leaving 10000 for home consumption,
and being an increase of 1000 barrels
over last years demand. 45 1000 BUSH
els corn, being and increase of 10, 900
bushels over last year, were convert
ed into meal, all of which was consum~
ed in the county. OF the 65, 900 BUSH
els Of wheat ground at this mill 90
900 bushels were raised in this coun-
ty. This shows an increase of Is, 900
bushels of wheat in the 1878 crop Of
Audrain oyer that of 1877. This is
gratifying. Five or six years ago this
county produced all the wheat ground
at this mill, but after the chintz-bug
made its appearance and destroyed
several successive crops our farmers
abandoned wheat sowing. These de-
structive insects are now extirpated
and the crop of 1879 promises, from
the extra breadth sown, to exceed that
of 1878 even than hat overlap
ped that of 1877. Last years wheat
made eXcelIant -four. 1t was mainly