Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-03-03

finding market in Staunton. Some of
their finest sole leather is made by Houck
& Wallace at Harrisonburg. and they man
ufacture at least eighty different styles of
shoes and boots of the finer sort, large
of them being hand made and
many of them the prettiest styles I ever
saw, with which they compete successfully
with manufacturers in the N orth and else
where.
The Glove Factory Of Mr.. F. A. Grachen
is one of the largest in the country and
employs 30 hands in the establishment,
while over 300 ladies and girls in the city
and county are employed to do the stitch
ing on their work. This enterprise has
been built up from a small beginning by
the worthy and energetic German proprie-
tor. There are three other glove
factories, owned by Messrs. H. R. Lupton,
D. H. Anderson and E. P. Anderson, not
as extensive as the first, but all doing a
good business.
The Bark and Sumac mill of Mr.. Ger
man Smith. is the best in the country and
no other manufacturer of the kind gets as
high price for his articles. He gives
profitable employment in the fall to many
hundreds of women and children for fifty
miles around in gathering sumac leaves,
for which he pays 81 per hundred, and gets
great deal of his bark from Augusta.
The bark which is black oak has the dark
part removed by machinery and is then
ground into fine fiber, packed into hogs.
heads and shipped to Europe for dyeing
purposes. 1t IS worth $25 ton here. The
sumac is ground into fine -four, packed
into sacks and sold in the North for tan
ming fine feathers and is worth $45 ton.
Mr.. Smith turns out car load per day of
his stuff.
The Winchester Paper Company has the
largest establishment in the United States
for manufacturing white and brown pa
per board for boxes from straw. Mr.. W.
Il. Denny is President Of the company;
Henry Kinzsl. Superintendent, and Chas.
L. Crumb, General Manager. Their bust
ness is very large and profitable and their
process very interesting. There are two
paper box and cigar box factories opera
ted by Messrs. J. I. Baker and H. S. Rich
ardson, who do good business and turn
out first-class work.
Five wooden factories in and around the
city are furnished with the most improved
machinery and turn out excellent goods.
They are owned by j. J. Jobe, Griffith &
Sons, Kern, Bare & Co. who have two,
and Baker Il Brothers, brothers of the
Mersrs. Baker of your city. another, and
two Others in the county over at Bartons-
Vile and the other owned by P. B. Will
liams & Son.
A large steam flour mill is in the city
| operated by Baker & Co., and around the
city almost in the suburbs are six other
large merchant mills-water power-own
ed by Messrs. Fosters, Hahn, Jacob Keck-
| ley, James Swartz & Son, Daniel T. Wood
| Wood & Smith and VIM. N. Eddy. all
| fiue brick establishments furnished with
improved machinery, and manufacturing
| fine grades of -four.
Mr.. U. L. Dorsey just outside of the
town has fertilizer factory and manufac-
lures large quantity of phosphate for
which he finds ready market.
There are two machine shops, Xnapp
Brothers and W. T. Gilbert who turn out
fine portable engines, mill gearing, stoves
and castings of all kinds.
MIR. George F. Glaize has large steam
planning and saw mill which does an extern
slve business.
There are also two carriage factories
Messrs. e. W. McVicar and Edward Tre-
| nary who do fine work and have good
trade; and truss factory owned and
| operated by Messrs. Crane & Son, and MI
| Fl. M. Baker has mandatory for wheat
! fans which does Il fine business.
i There are FIVE cigar factories operated
10y Messrs. H. Evans & Bros, brothers of
the Messrs John b. and David Evans of
| your city, who work ten or dozen hands;
Geo. E. jenkins and Robert Dodd, who
| each work about the same number; G. E.
March and John flaines, brother of c..
| E. Haines, of Staunton. No better cigars
can he had anywhere than those mauufac.
| tured here.
| Aud lastly there is perhaps the largest
| saddle and harness manufacturer in Vir-
| ginia here, MIR. A. L. Scherer, who has a
| splendid establishment on Main street.
running back 140 feet His fine goods go
! all over the country and his show windows
display the finest assol tment of domestic
furs-sixteen varletips-I ever saw South
of Baltimore. Messrs. w IL. Hardy and
L. G. Carper also do good business in the
saddle and harness manufacturing ousi-
ness and Maxwell u Glaize and Richard
Brown u Son in the tanning line.
| hen too Winchester now has good
hotel-the Taylor Hotel-kept by Mr..
Henry Wufert, who knows how to make
his house attractive to his guests, how to
hold them AS long as possible and how to
bring them hack again. A good town is
a failure as far as the traveller is concern
ed without good hotel.
&c. MORTON.
| A WavnesbOro Citizen in PhiIadelphia.