The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-09-18
0iH MANUFACTURER.
4 Compilation OF the Number OF Manu-.
factories ia IeayeRwOTth, the
Amount of business They DO and
the Number OF Wen They Employ.

Even our home peoI are not aware o: the
| extent OF the manufacturing interests of this
| city, They know that from many furnaces
goes up the smoke which tell of the blazing
dusky diamonds beneath which are warm
| ing into life and motion ponderous machin-
cry; they meet ia the daily walks of life
| troops OF toil-dUsted workmen they occa.
: onally look in and see them at their work,
| perhaps, VIXEN business calls them TO the Vi
cinIty OF some OF the factories. still, as regards
| the extent and importance of our manufac-
| turing interests few know fully thereof II
| is with the design of giving the people of
Lezvenworth and the world st large as well
| a full knowledge Of these things that a list
has been prepared whose features are out.
lined In the caption above.
That appears below is plain, simple pre-
sentatiOa Of facts. No attempt at coloring
has been used. The figures have an eloquen.
| ,ial ring OF their own which will inspireganew
the love oar people have for our city; will
cause their blood 10 dow in fuller sympathy,
If possible, with all that pertains to lis future
prosperity.
In commencing the lis, no more appro-
pirate heacing can be found than that OF the
FoUSDIIEs AND MACHINE SHOPS
The manufacturing of Leavenworth which
lies in this direction can perhaps lay claim as
being the most prominent feature thereof,
as there are more men employed in this
way snd the value of the WORK turned
out will reach TO a greater figure. The re-
spsctiv-- establishments are as follows:
The Union Machine Works has a capacity
in the stove department at present OF ten
stoves per day, or S,l21 year. They now
run twenty i've men, mostly on engine
hfaff q "A = railroad work
will be doubted in sixty days.
The Great Western Manufacturing Com
pany, which manufactures mourning mill
machinery. steam engines, saw mills, house
castings, etc, does "A business OF $50. ucO
weary and employs one hundred and twenty
five men on IuIl time.
The Great Western Stove Works started
ont TO make 20.lvO stoves this season, and the
indications IRE that the amount will be
little above that ngnre- One hundred and
MY men md steady employment in these
works.
Newsome's Boiler Works employ six men,
and in the year do n business which reaches
in the neisbborhCod of SI0,0go. They will
average MY boilers each ear.
BRIDGE WORKS.
The Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Works
have just been re opened under the control
OF Insley, Shire & Co. There is every reason
to believe that within a very short time these
works will be running upon the old-time
capacity, when one hundred and fifty men
were employed and nifty lineal feet of bricg-
ing We're manufactured daily.
FIGURING MILLS
1t is a fact which is established and
which dealers Will bear out, that Leaven-
worth -four has an established reputation,
no. only IN this state, but in Iowa, Illinois
and Missouri. The flour is equal TO that
manufactured in the famous mills of Mime
sofa sand time will give II as lair a reputs-
ton.
The Touring mills of Leavenworth are four
in number and their capacity Ii as follows:
The Novelty Mills now have capacity OF
40 barrels daily, and the present week, with