Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-01

and less accessible year - year, while IN
/ demand Is steadily increasing, not onl,
here and ~hereaboutS, but all over 81
country. The FIVE sawmills located in Oh
upper part Of the city near the banks q
Wolf river, cut daily from six 10 flee
, thousand feet Of lumber each. chief,
T cypress, poplar, cottonwood, walnut oal
: and ash. Several Of the mills also hav
plsning mills attached, and make door
sash blinds, mouldings, and supply q gen
eral list Of building articles. They ais
make shingles in. large quantities. tn
latter are quoted at s43 per NJ for No Is
80 70 for No 2 cypress, and 81 % for pop
lar. Two Of themills manufacture poplar
walnut, ash, oak, cherry, sweet gum ant
Sycamore, chiefly 70. shipment. The tw,
alluded to are j II Stackhouse& Bro, anC
W Q Bell. They employ from twenty
20 thirty men and cut from hfteen 4
eighteen thousand feet per day, shipping
70 Philadelphia and New York. The
Woodruff Lumber % has It's mills busy
at present making half a million feet Of
lumber for the new machine brick making
company recently organized here, and
now preparing % commence operations,
This concern employs from afy and sixty
men, and pays out weekly $500 in wage.
in the planning and saw mill combined
The mill Of Williams q 90, next to 1t, has
capacity for turning out over 10000
shingles and 5000 feet OF lumber daily.
together with 1900 laths and 10000 fruit
boxes.
The FONT Mills turn out a liberal guam.
uty Of cypress and poplar lumber daily.
also shingles and laths and aplaning mil
Is a part Of the business. The weekly
pay roll is about six hundred dollars and
from sixty 10 eighty men are employed
The yield Of the mills is mainly 10 supply
the local market. At certain seasons,
when the demand requires, Walnut um,
Der is supplied. Not much lumber is
shipped by this firm to other points,
though recently half a dozen car loads OIL
Whereabouts have been sent away. The
demand here has been keeping the mills
busy.
The Coover Planning Mills, on Wash.
ington street east Of Fourth, employs 3.
men and consume nearly a million feet o.
cypress, pine and other lumber in making
sash, doors and blinds for this market and
for the surrounding country.
The kennesGw Manufacturing COmpa'
ny, 81 Madison street, consumes large
quantities of lumber and pump tubing in
all about 60.0O feet per week, and they
turn out 10000 pumps annually, besides
making tubs, buckets, churns and agricul-
raj implements.
There are several other mills not men,
toned in the foregoing, the people con-
nected with them being too busy TO i'm
part information, but may be stated that
at least three quarters Of a million dollars
are invested in mill property and five or
six times that amount in logs and cut
material, The business has never been
more prosperous and active than during
the past six months.
MANUFACTURES.
The Pioneer Cotton Mills, capital $780,
coo, all paid up, began operations April
9th, 1882. The mills are located "a the
southern border Of the city and cover four
and a half acres. Active operations have
continued steadily through the past year.
There are regularly employed 1870 persons,
the weekly payroll amounting TO $l700.
| Within the past summer the working
capacity of the mills has been increased
from 300 spindles and 40 looms to $500
spindles and 1872 looms. and the mills are
now making from 1900 to s500yards Of os-
naburgs per DAY, and 1000 pounds Of other
goods. During the past twelve months
the production has been 5S7, 994 yards Of
s~heetings, 1872, 445 yards of ~osnaburgs and
2S8, 472 bounds Of other goods. The cot
ton consumed amounted 10 1899 bales.
Sales Of goods are made literally to whole
sale merchants OF this city, also to Kansas
City, Louisville, St Louis, Cincinnati and
Chicago. The mills are thriving, but
profits have been light, because Of the
the uniform low prices Of manufactured
goods which ruled throughout the year,
For example, sheetings which a year age
sold freely at SIC per yard are now only
&c, a decline Of Ne.
The Memphis Cooperage Works ar,
located on Sycamore and Front streets, in
the northern part OF the city, AMI begar
operations the Middle of last November
with a capital of $4,000. They employ
from 125 TO 1870 hands, half being coopers
and 100 are now at work, the weekly pay
roll amounting 10 $500, A portion o
their force is kept in the woods cutting
timber for slaves and other purposes. TIT
company own timber forests on tn
Hatebie river, from whence it draws largI
supplies, and also get material from
the forests opposite the city, Within tn
past few days 100 car loads Of fresh timbe
have been put in their yards. Recently
two kiln driers have been added to tn
works, and they are capable Of drying o.
seasoning 100000 slaves at q time,
week being occupied in this operation
Since the start, in November, the com
pany has turned out $1,000 potato barrels
10000 oil and molasses barrels, 10000
sugar, -four and cornmeal barrels, anl
several thousand half-barrels. The pric
Of flour, meal and potato barrels rang
from soc to 85c each. The works ar
Illuminated by the United States Electri
; Light, the same as the great bridge a
Brooklyn, New York, and the only plan
Of the kind in operation in this vicin
ity.
The Livermore Foundry and Machin
Company, organized in 1881, employ
about eighty artisans and workmen, ant
pay out weekly $500 TO 5000. The com
pany has used $50 tons of iron, of which 10
tons were wrought, purchased here, ant
the remainder came from Alabama. Tn
work performed by this company is 70
plantersand citizens extending from Nortl
Alabama to Texas, and south in Missis
sippi for 200 miles, as well as north nearll
as far. Recently large contracts for manu-
features have been made with parties a
Dallas, Texas, and much work is done 70
the country west Of Little Rock, OOttol
press, plantation and mill machinery
railway castings, house fronts and simila
work, are the leading features. Tn
melting capacity of the two cupolas ]
fifteen to twenty tons Of iron per day.
A The Chickasaw Iron Works, on SeconI
r Street, opposite Market Square, estSblisheN
in 1865, employ an average Of ITO artisan
s and laborers; weekly payroll $1,000 :
. $l5c0. Consumed during the last lively
months 1860 tons Of pig iron, chief,
/, brought from Middle Tennessee and Ala
bama, and several hundred tons {
. wrought iron, the latter being purchase
T from dealers in this city. Among tn
manufactures have been forty tons
= brass castings for railway locomotiy
Q bearings, and castings of over sixteen ton
: were recently made in the works. TIL
I foundry turns out large quantities {
= work in the way Of engines, boilers pressI
Q and machinery, and their work is dil
= tributed largely in the country two hur
: bred miles around.
5 The Milburn Gin and Machine Work
located in the northern part Of the city
. will shortly remove TO new and commC
dious quarters in the southern environ
r Tho works employ l65 artisans and labol
ors, and work day and night, with tw
gangs Of men; weekly payroll Sl6(
A Cotton seed mill machinery, CO.
ton gins, ornamental house fronts, etc
S are the specialties Of this company. III
Y consumption Of pig iron, from Alabami
is about thirty tons per week, and the bill
/ for wraught iron are from 5000 to 500
per month. This company supplied mi
chinery recently for cotton seed oil mil
at Newport and Texarkana, and is no
s engaged in doing the same for a cotto
, seed mill on Mr.. Fargason's plantation
g near the head Of the Sunfower river.
Cotton Receipts by River for Ii
I Season Of 1928.
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