Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-15

"iAhtNAi anu VI heilNiIils AftOGHt u bul
lington and its institutions so fla;tering,
indeed, that it would he too cruel 10 point
out the inaccuracies it contains. Nothing
except these is particularly new 10 our peo-
pie; but the account of our manufacturing
interests, with which the writer evidently
took much pains, viii be OF interest though
it must be promised that slight tendency
TO cxagscration is noticeable The letter
says:
The Central Vermont Railroad
Company has ten miles of track running like
a network to these various manufactures, and
ii keeps two engines and force Of fifty
men at WORK by lac business o,..l. isncd by
these industries. The lumber business Occu-
pies an area of sevcnty-live acres, with two
miles of wharfage. Nearly one thousand
men and a hundred horses are required
in the various branches of the bust
ness Storage capacity for one hundred
million feet Is provided here, with shed
covering for some ten million feet
Chief among the lumber dealers is the Shep-
ard & Morse Lumber Company. Their sales
during 1850 from all sources amounted to
20, OUO,O feet of lumber. They employ
nearly 800 men and have several large klns
for drying lumber. This company have
stOra &c sheds under cover for j, 600, 900 feet
of lumber. This firm have also yards and
offices at Ottawa and Boston. J. l.. Booth
of Ottawa has large lumber yard here un-
der the management of Capt. L. y. Wood
| bury Mr.. Booth has extensive mills al OF
tawa, and last year manufactured A. OOO.-
900 feet of pine. His exports To Europe IN
1850 amounted TO loco, 0c0 feet of lumber
and the lumber forwarded TO the Burlington
agency Appropriated 10000 feet. The
planning mills here under Mr.. Woodbury. 5
charge dressed some 1900, 900 feet of um-
Der last year The Burlington yard has a
storage capacity of l5O0O, 900 feet. Mr.
Booth owns a lumber region in the Ottawa
| Valley of l,2SO,000 acres. Bronson, Yves
ton, Durham Il ca, are very rx-
tensivc dealers, having lumber cstab-
lishments and mills in burlington,
| Ottawa, Albany and six other points in the
| West and Northwest In this city they have
storage capacity for 25,0o0,000 feet of
lumber. Their grounds here cover IL acres,
and their mill dresses II, DOT, 600 feet annu-
/ ally. They employ 100 men here At OIta-
wa the company cut 40, 900, 900 feet of pine
annually, the production of their various
mills aggrcgating 10000, COO feet of lumber
per annum. The firm own 1900 square
miles of timber in the Ottawa Valley. The
firm of Skillings. Whitncys & Barnes
carry siock of 120O0, 900 feet of lumber
| They dress annually here and at Ogdens-
burg, where the company have large mills
some %. 600. COO feet of lumber The sales
of the firm aggregate 5000, coo feet Of all
kinds of lumber Their Burlington office is
| il charge IL SIR. ID. W. Robinson
| Messrs. W. Il ID. G.. Crane manufacture
l rNanl-ip,- Iax.a onI ,l.al 1,nr
employ 80 men, who annually cut up 800, =
900 feet of stock for boxes Their sales ar
gregate 5000, 900 feet Of lumber Pope II
Watson orc large manufacturers of boxes
| They employ 70 men, and cut up 5000, 900
feet of lumber in their business. Their
manufactured stock requires As cars month
| for shipments. In the old Pioneer ShOpsH
). {. kimha0 manufactures doors, sash,
etc. ; smith y Wing lasts Il. NJ Clapp
! curtain fixtures and conductors and b. =
| Nichols, steam fire engines and boilers
| These firms employ about 200 men.
| Taft, Morgan Il Co. have lai;e three
| story brick building for the manufacture of
doors, sash and blinds. The firm EMPLOYS
about 125 men. Matthews & Hickok manu-
facture packing boxes, from horse nail boxes
to an organ box in size. The company make
| about all the bellows hoartl5 f3r cabinet or
gans used in the country. They employ 80
men and ship ) cars of boxes per day. Joel
| ii. Gates Il Co., proprietors of the Burling-
ton and Winooski Cotton Mills. employ 800
hands. They operate 5000 spindlrs and
go looms. The daily product of their
! mills is 3i,G0G wards of print cloth per day.
| The manufacture of thread spools and bob
bins is carried on extensively here hv Holt,
/ Barnes " Co, who employ 30 men in this
/ ,pI, fTbnir
$4,000 gross Ct spGals Ior month, and go,
GOO Robbins in the same period. Their an
nual production of spools amounts to 50.
900, 900, which are mostly sent to Rhode
| Island and New jersey. The mandatory
uses about 1000, 600 feet Of Iirch aGd rock
maple wood yearly.
One of the largest and most important in
dustries in the city is carried on by j. W.
| Goodell x Co., and the Burlington Manu-
featuring Company, which firms manutaC-
| ture and deal in every kind Of marble and
| granite work. j. W. Goodell Il Co. en-
! ploy 200 hands. The Burlington Manufac-
turing Company employ 100 hands in saw
/ ing and rough finishing marble and granite.
| They have run night and day for tho past
| year.
| l.. G.. Durham employs twenty men on
picture moulding; the Burlington Shirt
| Company keep twenty girls on shirt making
| and the Burlington Flour Mill have twenty
! five men grinding. Messrs Henry. johnson
Il Lord do a large business in speciaties in
the medicine line. The firm of Wells, Rich
! ardson X Co. was established in 1865. Their
/ business in 1874 amounted To 5000. 600, and
to-day it is over half a million dollars per
annum. Wells, Richardson 4 Co. are firm
believers in the merits of printers ink, and
last year the firm expended $500 in adj
vertising. Wells Richardson Il Co. are
also largely interested in the manufacture of
the Ferguson Bureau Creamery, which is
having an extensive sale. Some - men
are given employment in their manufacture.
To this it might be added thai Captain
Woodbury. employs in the Chas, mill !
larger force than at least dozen of some OF
the manufacturers mentioned that Brink
& Co. is pretty well known mlnufact uring
firm; That the list of our lumbcrmcn in
cludes the firm of Pierce Il Linslcy that
Mr.. Woodworth's pottery is equal in i'm
portauce TO some of the industries named
and that many more enterprises might be
mentioned which Forbes Omls-Nlr. Phelps's
granite works, Maj Blodsctt's extensive
oven and stove business, Mr. Walkers mar
BILE works etc, etc