Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-01

TO The value of 500, 900, employing iorty-fve
men. About half the products are taken at
home: the rest goes TO the States INN ediately
around us and to Texas. The prospects for
the coming years trade are the best since
1877.
Plain q Co, No. 354 Second street, do a
large amount of work in sash, blinds,
mouldings, manfels and planning work, using
200 900 feet OF lumber year and employing
thirty hands The years business was quiet,
but there has been great improvement IN
August and the prospect Is coed.
Cochran & Co, Main, street corner Union,
has 100 men employed 10 manufacturing lum-
Der into all the varities mentioned above. They
receive most of their material from Tennes-
see, Arkansas and Kentucky, and have this
year put out II, 000,0 900 feet Of finished pro-
duct.
Coover & Co., No. 157 Washington street,
have large factory, producing all the varie-
ties of articles in the worked lumber and plan
ing mill line. I hey have finished this year
100 900 feet of white pine, 200 900 feet OF
cypress, ard 300,0 900 feet of poplar. employ
ing thirty five hands. The concern has
| $4,000 invested and turns over $4,000 a
| month.
MATTRESSES.
John Clavin (Second, below UnioD,) is de-
ing an active business in mattress mauufsc-
| turing, mostly to fill city orders, He en-
pIoys four hands and uses $4,000 yards Of
ticking in year, with proporiionate guam
tity Of siuffiDg material.
NICKEL PLATING.
John TYLER & Co, of No. % Main street,
are ccompliehed nickel platsrs. They have,
unfortunately, been burnt out" but will, in
| a while, be at work again. Our people are
probably not all aware OF the advantages
this art puts within their reach; implements
of brass, steel, iron or copper, swords, forceps,
| anything in metals from a rusty key is N ade
by Mr.. Tyler as beautiful as silver, and can
not rust or tarnish. 1t is an art preseryative
OIL MILLS.
The subject of cotlon-seed oil and its mills
is enough 10 fill treatise. but our sketch
must be of the briefest. We have in Mem
phis seyen mills, in which 81 100000 are in
vested They have used IS 900 tons ofseed
the past season, and they employ an army of
$50 men. The season the past year was
short, scarcely enduring four months, three
months shorter than last year; with a late
| frost the prospect Tor the next season is
good. Two new mills are in course of erec-
ton; also refining mill, the largest in the
| United States, at cost of 100000. The
Hope Company and the Gayoso have refine
ries, and the Globe intends 10 have. All
cetton-seed oil made in Memphis for the fu-
| ture will be refined. unless wanted in the
| crude s!ate. This will add largely TO the re-
| ceipts from the crushed seed. The cotton
seed meal and cake are products that are in
increasing demand from their value as feed
| and fertilizers. The Hope mill manufactures
| laundry soap equal TO CASTLE, but latheriDg
better; that mill also turned out 5000 bales
of cotton batting. The same enterPrising
| company is -PreP1rfpg to manufacture
cotton-oil butter, beefsuet being used in con-
nection with the oil. Cotton-oil lard is an
other product the Hope will manufacture.
| on a recently-issued patent The use of
| purified cotton-seed oil for cooking purposes
| is Increasing amazingly; $4,000 barrels of it
have been made during the year. The purity
of this article, as compared with the COM
pound known as lard, winning for it
high reputa tiop, while the manufacture of
lard and butter from il, added 10 the brisk
foreign demand, all increase the call for it.
OF cotton-seed meal over 10000 tons have
been made this year. 1t is not now sent
abroad altogether, formerly. Many farm
ers have learned lis value, especially in New
Eugland, which is now the best customer
for it.
PIONEER COTTON MILLS.
The Pioneer Mill commenced operations
May 1st, of this year. Since that time ii has
consumed 2l3, $50 of pounds cotton and turned
out 40, $40 OF pounds manufactured goods.
The company employs 103 operatives and
has paid out S8l4l 10 for wages. Cost OF
buildings, cottages anu macnlneTy, SlZf ,OoU,
$50, 900 of which was expended in Memphis.
There is 10 operation 1912 spindles and forty
looms. The mill is doing good and paying
business, with an excellent demand for its
produces Sales beyond the city are princi-
pally in Baltimore, Louisville, Cincinnati,
Chicago and 81. Louis. The machinery at
present manufacture cotton ropes, twines,
carpet wsrps, trot lines, sheetiDgs and osna-
burgs. The company began building the
mill about the ION of last September, less
Than one year ago, in which time it has COM
pleted it and gotten it into full and success
full operation. The mill now stands where
there was cottonield this time last year,
the cotton having been picked and sold be-
fore work WAS commenced.
PUMPS.
The manufacture of pumps is quite large
one, as Memphis supplies an extensive dis
5T1e6 NTH IN thsss aTss Com
pany Kinney & Co. No. $50 Main street, en-
ploys several hands in the business, their
trade extending TO Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas. There are also two or three other
pump makers in the city.
PAPER BOXES.
Paper boxes are used in stores to a large
extent for the preservation of goods, and
there is a steady demand for them from the
city and from the towns over a large extent
HUM & Co., of No. u Jefferson street, are
the only extensive makers of them in Mem
Phis, and, except in Atlanta, Nashville and
New Orleans, there are no other man,Ifsc-
turers of them on large scale IN the South
Jones, HUM & Co. used during the past |
year ten tons of straw board, and CORE
spending amount of glazed colored papers |
in filling their orders, doing bushes OF |
$4,000 in these slight articles alone. Four |
hands, three OF whom are women, are stead |
lily employed in box-making. Owing TO the |
way the drouth has affected the country |
stores less business was done on this than |
during the preceding year, but the prospects
Tor the coming year are very bright, and
orders are extending.
PORK PACKING, LARD, SAUSAGE.
Seessel, Achner & Co, at the extensive
premises, No. 5 Howard's Row, recently
occupied by the cornmeal mill, have fitted
up machinery, kettles, tanks, cutters, mixers,
icehouse, elevator, ana steam
hog killing, pork-salting, ham and breakfast
'acon curing, lard-rendering, sausage man
lfaeturiDg, and corning of beef. Hogs will
We brought in from the alley, stuck, then
lrawn forward TO hot-water tank, where
hey are scalded; pulling a lever raises the
'arcass from the tank and places it on
able. where the bristes are scraped off;
look is then advanced, which takes the
srcass off suspended. The hook has a wheel
INNING on sipgle-rail railway overhead, by
which the hog is pushed where it is to hang
Ind cool. 1t is then cut up, rendering ket-
les at hand receive the Fat and render it
INTO lsrd. The parts appropriate Tor sausage
Ire cut by two large choppers, spice mill
ear supplies the necessary Ingredients ,
which are mixed in by mixing machine;
so pounds can be chopped into fine sausage ,
neat IN twenty minutes; finally the sausage,
mostly OF the Bologna kind, is forced into its
asiug by sausage machines. These work BY |
land, the choppers and mixer by steam. All
he bits left In cutting, and The bones and
he remnants are cast into 500-gallon tank
nd made into grease. A smokehouse and
large ice. chamber give facilities for pre-
CRYING and preparing for market. An eight
nch iron pipe and free supply of water
nil carry off all dirt and refuse to the sewer
nd the river; open ventilators in the roof {
lear away steam and smell. The Board of
4eeltA has approved of the excellent arrange !
lents.
SYPHON VENTILATION.
The Scientific Americas, two weeks ago, con- :
lined cut and description of a syphon :
enillator, within which vacuum is created
y the wind it admits. This causes an up
ard movement of the air in a vertical pipe
xtending to the apartments of a house, thus
reating current up the pipe which venti- !
ties the rooms. The inventor is Mr.. ]. NJ.
ennerty. of this city, and the Fenneriy
yphon Ventilator Company is now manu-
eturing the new article at 394
lain street. The manufacture has only
st now been commenced, but 1
ready number of citizens have had n
lem applied for ventilating cellars and Of a
,es. They also carry off sewer gas, remedy u
nokipg chimneys, which they clear OF SCOT, !:
I'd boats and cars find them admirable I
ntilators. As the article becomes known L
e manufacture is likely TO become an i'm l
,rtant one. q
STAINED GLASS.
The only stained glass works in the South
e in Memphis. John Hughes, of No. 236
lird street, is working on splendid sp :ci-
ems of church windows, side, parlor and Z
'amboat lights, embossed and ground glass.
le splendid windows of our own Calvary
uroh are from the hand of this artist, who
now at work on memorial window for