The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-09-18

Rush's Mills, 1T their former capacity,
manufactured 80 barrels daily. The new
machinery now being added will increase
this TO 80 barrels, daily.
Dilwor;h & LysIe's capacity is about equal
to the present facilities OF the Novelty Mills
namely, 40 barrels daily.
The star Mills do more cus'om work than
for the wholesale trade, but manufacture
about IS barrels daily.
about 60 barrels, have their hands full of
business. There Is good opening for extra
capital IN the same direction
FURNITURE.
IL is not exaggeration to say that Leaven-
worth has the largest furniture houses in the
West. While the stocks they carry are not
all manufactured in Leavenworth. they are
engaged in manufacturing TO very great
extent, as the figures will show.
Robert Keith * Co. manufacture $1,000
worth of all classes of furniture and employ
forty men. They will, by force of necessity,
shortly enlarge their facilities.
Abernathy Bros manufacture $4,000 worth
OF furniture yearly, employing nifty men.
They turn out fifty beds OF one kind daily,
They. too, contemplate enlarglng their ia.
cilities.
CIGAFs.
There are twerty-one cigar factories in
Leavensorth. which pay yearly about $4,000
IN internal revenue for the stamps used upon
their goods. The tax paid per hundred cigars
is fifty cents, showing that the amount of
cigars made yearly is In round numbers four
million.
Cigar makers will average about 20) cigars
daily, CT one man will make in so working
daYs, 600. The number OF cigar hands In
this city, with these figures As n basis Of cal
culation, Is slXty-siX.
MALT IIQUoEs.
Taking the revenue figures in the same
way As above, We find that LeavenwoIth's
three breweries pay yearly $1,000 in revenue
taxes. The tax per gallon upon beer is
twelve ard one-hslf cents, VIII ch would
make the total number of gallons manufac.
iured IN the city yearly eighty thousand
gallons.
WAGONS AND CARRIAGES.
The importance OF this manufacturing in.
terest is far greater than imagined by even
our own people, add when the facts are
shown, supported by figures. the result is
simply astonishing. Old Mother Earth could
speedily be girdled by the many vehicles for
use, both for pleasure and profit, which
Leavenworth is sending out and which are
sold everywhere.
The Kansas Wagon Company manufactures
6 0OJ year OF spring, platform, freight and
SIS for each vehicle, a business OF $4,000.
w q. HesSe turns out 20 farm W agOns and
- light wagons in year. His yearly sales
Will reach $4,000, and fourteen to sixteen
men are employed
:. ID. North manufactures carriages, of
which he put up five hundred yearly.
J. Lyon makes carriages in addition 10 re-
pairing. He at the same time manufactures
yearly, fifty buggies and light wagons, out.
side of his general work.
John Cretors employs a dozen men in his
carriage and repair shop, doing about the
same In manufacturing as above.
BASKETS.
Gustav Bre,schneider manufactures sew.
ersl thousand dollars worth OF baskets
yearly.
MARBLE WORKERS.
BGrdett * Heis employ twenty-five men,
and do a monthly business of ab0u: 3, coo.
Twenty-Five men are employed on to'nb-
stones and cut stone work in manufacturing
ana selling.
the same line, amounting up IN an equal ex-
tent, keeping men at the shops and upon the
read constantly
BOOTS AND SHOES.
H. S. Burr & Co. find employment for fifty
men in making boots and shoes, and expect
TO very largely increase their facilities.
BAG MASUFACTUERs.
The Leavenwerth Bag Factory turns out
500 bags and burlaps daily, furnishing EN- q.
piOymeut in manufacturing the same TO
twenty-iour persons.
BARRIERS SUPPLIES.
II. ]. Helmers openeu a snort time ago
mandatory of BARRIERS supplies OF all kinds
The business being a new one, but whose
steady growth is tie guarantee of It's perma.
nence, IL is scarcely possible To estimate upon
the amount Of business which years work
will bring forth. He is now getting out
very handsome illustrated catalogue
PAPER AND CIGAR BOXES.
II. A. Wilkens manufactures paper boxes,
while J.Vosel * 20. manufacture cigar boxes.
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lig'.res upon the amounts are not easily OBJ
taiuable.
WOODEN MILLS.
Owen Duffy employs about fifteen persons
in the manufacture of wooden goods, which
have ready sale abroad
SOAP FACroESEs.
There are two soap factor les, both doing
large business Leavenw 1rlh soap is sold
everywhere IN the West.
GEoCERs' SUPPLIES.
Harrop's Grocer Supply Company and Spice
Mills do a business OF $1,000 yearly, and ex-
pect TO increase that business four tunes this
year.
MEDICINE.
The Brown Medicine Company employs
twenty persons. Last year their business in
creased thirty-five per cent and reached siO,-
CO... This year the per cent. OF increase Is
greater and the sales Will reach Go CoJ.
JEwELRY.
Il. V. H-Tsbfield manufactures all his gold
and silver goods, his business being from
S2iO.OOOto $3.50 600 yearly, and employment be-
ING given 10 twenty-five men. Five travel
ing men are on the road constantly.
THE COAL INTEREST.
Although not properly belonging TO the
manufacturing class, the Lsavenwerth coal
shar -an with Justice b> added. The pro-
duct uf the min. il 20, 600 bushels daily, and
over 40 EundreT men are employed.
WARN AIR FURNACES.
L. Il: Narney manufactures these very
useful contriyancnS and does an extensive
business Oy,r the state
SHIRT MAKERS.
The Old eS blisned firm of Wool Brothers
must not be rrgotien, who do business every
where III tie West.
TRUNK MAKERS.
Freeling q Co. report that their yearly
sales upon trunks, viii n they manufacture,
viii reach SO Ico
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS.
Nuuson & Burrows have forty men en-
pIoyed in manufactur' nG the above articles,
and do a business of 50 900 yearly.
OTHER INDUSTRIES.
Resides these above enumerated, Is glue
factory, an extensive cooper shop, two vine
gar factorfes, two broom makers, one cotton
batting factory, a soda water factory, and
perhaps a few others, all DOING business IN
the vast territory which nature has made
TO the metropolis OF the west.