Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-02
LANCASTER.
Its Business Outlook,

Its Business Outlook.
Mr.. COleman's article in the Philadel-
phia Ledger on the tobacco crop, published
on our fourth page to-day, is supplement-
ed by the following account of our leading
manufactures
The business men of Lancaster city COM
mcnce the new year under very favorable
circumstances, and with every prospect OF
realizing greater profits than during any
year since the commencement of the tinan-
cial panic. A visit to the various indus
trial establishments yesterday showed that
all were in operation, some of them with
more orders than could be filled, and that
each branch of trade felt the effects of the
revival in business. The establishments
first visited were the cotton mills, and at
each it was found that every spindle was
moving and every hand that could be made
available had full employment.
AT the two COnestoga cotton mills,
owned by John Farnum & Co., there are
90 600 spindles in operation, and 12 miles
or about $4,000 yards, of ticking turned
out every day. These mills are models in
their way; always kept in the best posi-
BILE condition, and supplied with all the
modern improvements. They have never
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time to the present the daily product has
been about q, 600 yards. 1000 bales of cot
ton are used every year, and the hands
number $50, two-thirds of them being
women.
At the C"nestoga steam mills, known as
No. 1, about 300, OOO yards of fine shirt
ings and other muslins are made 1t is
the only mill, it is said, in the county that
makes nankcen goods from cotton grown
for this mill. The seed for this cotton,
which is the color of nankeen, was first
brought to this country by General
Forsyth, OF Georgia, and the first yard of
goods made from it was in the mill of the
late Joseph Ripka, of Philadelphia. The
seed of this cotton has to be obtained from
China about every four years, for, if
allowed to grow longer than this in our
soil, it becomes white like other cotton.
There are $4,000 spindles in the mill, en-
plOying $50 hands, and using up
200 bales of cotton each month. This
mill has also been run without stopping,
except for holidays, since 1873.
At the Allendale mill there are 5000
spindles and $50, 900 yards of colored duck
are made monthly, consuming in the man
ufacture 200 bales of cotton each
month. The Fulton mill. owned by the
same parties, turns out fancy ducks at the
rate of 1000, 600 yards year. In the two
mills 379 hands are employed and all find
constant work. These mills have also been
run on full time during the dull times.
The Conestoga mill known as No. has
just commenced operations again, in the
manufacture of fine yarns. There $3.50
spindleS in the mill, and about so bales of
cotton are used monthly.
Among the new enterprises in the city
is the Lancaster watch company. They
own 81 acres of land within the city limits,
and near where number of new buildings
have been erected during the past year.
On this land brick structure has been
built, which is 40 by 100 feet and three
stories high, and fitted up with all the
necessary machinery for making fine
watches, and which is run by thirty
horse power engine 40 persons are en-
plOyed, and at present the company are
making twenty-five watches or movements
a day, which sell at from $1S to 500 each.
The movements, before being sold, are
put upon ice for eight hours, and then
baked in an oven for eight hours more, so
that, when in use, the variations of TEN.
perature will not affect them.
The iron workers in the city and county
are all busy filling orders, and to do this
the mills and furnaces are kept going to
their fullest capacity.
The Penn iron company own the large
rolling mill in the city, and are now en-
plOying 225 men in the manufacture of
bolts. railroad spikes, nuts, merchant iron,
&c. The quantity made is about 175 tons
per week. At the Conestoga furnace 100
tons of pig iron is made. with the one
stack in blast. The Lancaster bolt factory
is also running on full time, filling orders
that are constantly being received
There is one large stack at the Mount
Hope charcoal furnace turning out Is tons
per week. The estate that owns this fur
mace is entitled to all the ore needed for one
stack free from the Cornwall ore bank.
Along the Susquehanna, and within the |
county of Lancaster, there are number of
furnaces in full blast. Among them can
be named the St. Charles furnace, with one |
stack, ard the Henry Clay furnace, adjoin-
ng, also one stack, the two turning out |
about $50 tons of pig-iron per week.
Cheques furnaces, Nos. and 2, each !
with one stack, are making 300 tons per