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

unesl FRENCH anu -nOLQe-mdue' CanQV. ln6y
make on an average 1000 pounds Of candy
day. They use about 100000 eggs a year
in baking and in ice-cream. 10 supply the
trade in the latter two hand machines and
one run by steam are used Messrs. Specht
& Walter also make specially OF suppers and
parties. They had the contract for the re-
ception given by the city 10 the people oil
Charleston when the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad was completed. On that occasion
$500 guests were present.
CARRIAGES.
Carriage building in all its branches is
specially in Memphis, which is gaining
reputation for the grace aud beauty of It's
vehicles and their good, honest workmsn-
ship. Woodruff, Oliver & Co, 17o Main
street, manufacture every kind OF carriage,
buggy, and spring work. They turn out 800
| vehicles a year and employ ffty-two men,
whose pay roll amounts to 500 week. line
| surrounding States, and Louisiana and Texas
| are taking carriages from this house. Busl-
| ness was quiet generally throughout the
year, but there are good grounds Tor anticI-
| pating activity during the coming season:
Bruce & Co., Monroe street, whose splendid
I mandatory building catches every passing
eye, have every requisite on hand ior me
building of vehicles. They use 5000 worm
| of material in year and turn out 200 We
| bicles of their own construction, employing
| thiriy-6ve hands.
Oven Lily. A Adams street, turns out some
very graceful vehicles. For usefnl spring
| work he has the reputation of making strong,
substantial and handsome articles. He has
thirteen men employed, and looks for good
| business the coming season.
COTTON GINS.
The Carver Gin and Machine Company
| have good brick structure on Shelby street,
opposite The Gayoso House, and are doing a
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car.leads Of lumber have been received dur
| ing the year. Seventy-fve hands are en-
ployed; the weekly payroll runs from $3.50
| TO $3.50. The usual weekly turnout is twelve
gins, with feeders and condensers. The estab-
| lishment also constructs cotton presses and
| bui Dis a large amount of oil mill machinery.
Their gins aud other products are taken in
every one of the cotton States.
W. A. Smith, 37S Front street, builds the
Avery gin, a well known and popular article;
he employs ten hands, and has turned out a
considerable list of gins, feeders and con-
| deDsers, besides seed-cottou cleaners.
The Pratt gin is manufactured at branch
| house of the main establishment at No. 100
| Poplar street, where there Is a substantial
brick building and roomy grounds. The
company puts out $50 finished gins a year
| for the Memphis district, employing fifteen
hands. The Eclipse huller is also made at
| this establishment, sfordiDg a good deal OF
| work. The company have found the business
| for the year sufficiently satisfactory to induce
| il TO prepare for an early enlargement OF the
| premises.
ELECTRIC BELLS.
Mr.. Schmidt, of 35I Main street, is en-
| ployiug the labor of three h snds in the manu-
| faclure Of his electric bells, which from their
| superiority are now used in preference of the
old style OF hotel annunciators. As building
| increases the call tor his productions ad-
vances. He principally confines his atLen-
tiUn 70 CITY orders.
FLOUR AND MEAL.
Memphis has for years paid away vast
| sums for -four and meal, but it is extending
| its grinding power, and every year is dong
more OF this work at home. The renovation
| of the mill on the bayou, at the end of Short
Third street, by the Enterprise Milling and
| Manufacturing Company, has Just brought
great addition to the home supply OF -four
Four sets Of stones, three purifiers, a. six
reel boiting chest, smut machines and
cleansers give a capacity 10 turn out $50
barrels OF flour day, consuming 1000 bush
els OF wheat. Fifteen men are employed.
Wheat is obtained principally from Dyers-
burg, Paris and Nashville. Speed & Graves's
mill, on Promenade street, grinds cornmeal,
putting out during the season, from Septem-
Der l5.h to July 1st, 10000 barrels, and en-
p!oys fifteen men. The firm also make many
of the barrels they use. The trade of the
season was better than that Of the previous
year, but as an unusually large amount of
corn has been grown this summer in the
country around US the demand in the spring
will be diminished. Orders for the meal
arrive from Helena, Vicksburg, Pine Bluff,
and even from New Orleans together
with many towns around us. Yates's
w Washington street. mills have a ca
Pscity OF $50 barrels day, and employ
ten men. All the product finds customers in
the city. Benjess mill, on Commerce street,
puts out 1000 barrels of cornmeal year,
and employs four men. Schilling & Gsskie,
No. IS Concord street, grind 5000 barrels OF
meal and 1000 barrels of -four year; eight
men employed. Expect but moderate de-
mand for cornmeal the coming season.
Hayden, No. Is Poplar street, turns out over
100 900 bushels of cornmea; the corn is OBJ
tanned from the country this side of Evans
vile, Ind. Ohio has supplied little this
year, and some was taken from St. Louis.
FOUNDRIES AND MACHINE SHOPS.
All kinds of iron work appear to find in
Memphis favorable center, for year by
year the establishments increase. They turn
gines, sa mills, elevators, columns, railroad
and steamboat work, oil works, steam pumps,
corn and wheat mills, gearing, pulleys, and
the thousand objects in metal required in
trade, in domestic life, and ON the farm OF
the various works in Memphis each has
its own specially, the ingenuity perfection of |
tools and machinery; and conscientious
sound, good home work Memphis can sup |
ply affords all that the city and country |
around it requires in iron. John E. Ran |
dies Chickasaw Iron Works, SO Second /
street, does very extensive and varied |
business, and is about TO add 10 its facilities
by building new foundry at the rear Of he
present large premises. So varied are the
productions of the popular old Chickasaw
Works that pamphlet containing the lis, of
its more important articles fills seventy
pages. For castings 500 tons of iron a year
IRE melted at this establishment, and forty
i've tons OF brass castings were turned out
There is also used 125 ions of wrought and
lar iron and twelve tons of stock a year,
giving employment TO eighty men. Business
vas quiet until two months ago. There is
now good deal OF activity, while the num-
ler OF inquiries is much greater than at this
ime last year, which indicates activity for
he coming season.
The Livermore Foundry and Machine
company, 160 Adams street, is at present
'esides it's general work, engaged in turning
ut material for the River Commission, in
ThieA much ingenuity has been shown in
dapting machinery so 10 increase the
peed of production and the perfection of the
roduct- House fronts and columns are
mong the speeialties of this foundry. which |
ses over 500 tons of iron year, employs i
sventy men, and pays annually $35, 600 10
10000 in wages. AT present trade is good
nd The promise Tor the coming season never
ppeared better.
Among the number of manufactures start
in Memphis during the past year is the
lilburn Iron Works. Scarcely five months in
peraiion, at Nos. l to Front street, it has
rders sufficient to keep day and a night
'rce at work. Seventy men are employed
nd the weekly payroll amounts to 5000.
twmill work, and all kinds of requirements
II plantations. 1t is fitted up with every
'quisite OF the most recently-Improved kind
nd claims TO be, in that respect beyond any
iher mschine-shop south of she Ohio river
his establishment is acquisition added :
, the new enterprises OF the year Just ex-
ired.
GLAZED WINDOWS.
Among our recently introduced Memphis .
Ianufsctures is that of sash for windows {
18th the glass already put in. Cole & Co, {
The corner OF Second and Union stree IS, j
axe this business specially. The estab- ,
shment employs thirty hands, and puts ont
%, 600 windows ayear. The woodwork is {
eelveu ready cut -.a 10 Pvt together, fa-i
he'd and glazed on the premises.
GALVANIZED IRON WORKS.
Two houses are engaged in the msnufac-
ire OF cornices and roofs OF galvanized iron
I'D tin, Messrs. j. 7. Long & Co., 1873 Second =
rect, and George Rubsch of 375 Main
rect Together they have used raw mate
al to the amount of $4,000 during the E
'ar, including IRON, galvanized iron, and 6
n. The material comes generally from !
ncinnati and Philadelphia, and eighteen 7
inds are employed. There has been i'm. 2
ovement in the extent of orders during !,
e year, and the prospect of increased =
Hiding snd of new depots and manu. j
etories, gives fine prospect for the next ;,
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IRON TIES.
At the head of Maiu street there is a mahu- =
tory of iron ties-the arrow tie. Appar- .
lly pretty large amount of business is | n
ne, but any information as to what is do n,
!, was courteousy but perempterily refust d. r
ICE-MAKING.