The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-13


and he has just cause to be proud Of bill
sons, who have already laid the founda-
ton and are reaping the rewards of .
lucrative business.
The Atlantic brewery, owned and man
aged by George Wagner, is known al
over the west through the Quality of itt
products. Mr.. Wagner's establishment
has grown up with the city. and by max
ing improvements about his property as
his trade increased, he has now reached
a stage of completeness In his business,
when he is capable of turning out Co.,
barrels Of the hop extract in year. He
employs 40 men and his yearly income
from the sale of beer amounts to $500.
600. During the past season he put in
one of Theo. Kranchs artificial ice ma
chimes at cost of $50, 900. thereby sup
plying twelve cellars, and sending the
frigid vapors through 100000 cubic fee,
of space Mr.. Wagner has also made
many telling improvements about his Of
flee, added new steel boilers and other
conveniences. The Atlantic brewery has
run to its full capacity the past season,
and therefore has turned out 10000 bar.
rels.
There is no better beer manufactured
in this country than that produced by L.
Huber. at his City Brewery in this city
He employs 90 men. and brewed IL, 600
barrels in the year just closed. Business
Was better than the year preced-
ing, and there is every prospect of q
greater increase the coming season.
There has been great demand for MIR.
Huber's beer from Iowa of late, as in fact
there has been all over the west. Bust
ness in Mr. Hubers line has been good,
and as he makes staple article there will
always be ready market for it, and he is
in position TO readily supply any quan>
tity of the best quality of beer.
Raible & Stengel have good brewery
and they do an immense business, locally
and at distance. They manufacture the
best quality of beer and report better
trade IN 1885 than ever before. They
report 5000 barrels and will do more
next season. They built new ice house
last year, made number of improves
ments to their brewery, aud are now in a
position to supply an increasing demand
for their make of beer. Raible & Stem
gels Rock Island brewery ranks among
the city's most substantial manufactur-
ing industries They employ ten men,
BoTTLINe WORKS.
Curse & Ohlweiler own the Rock ISL
and Bottling Works. The members of
the firm are ex.Msso or Henry Carse and
Aid. John OLlweiler and they manufac>
ture champagne cider, ginger ale, birch
beer, tonic beer and soda waters, and are
operators of the celebrated Black Hawk
mineral spring They deal in ale and
porter and are general agents and bot
tiers of Joseph Schiilz's Milwaukee export
beer. Carse & Ohlweiler have no reason
to- ,rIa ~ ,,,.r', -
was altogether a good year for them.
They turned out 62,54S dozen bottles,
which is iterlzed as follows: soda water,
20, 200 dozen; ginger ale. etc, 1880;
mineral water, 3.726; beer QUARTS 90.
4Os; beer (pints) 3.l2s; sundries, 1855;
besides several car loads of cider Carse
g. Ohlweiler have one of the best and
most favorably known bottling works in
this section and orders for their goods
come from all parts of the west. They
employ IA men and the institution is one
of Rock Islands Oldest, most successful
and most reliable.
Messrs. Julius Junge and GottlIeb
Beck compose a sound and substantial
bottling firm. They do an extensive
business and produce number one
quality of goods. The past year has been
satisfactory one for them, with pros y
poets of still more successful trade the
coming season. They employ 10 men
and $35 900 represents the amount of
th cir sales in 1885.
For fifteen years s. Gilmore has been
one of the leading pork packers in this
rel ion. and each year has witnessed a
steady increase in his business, until he
now stands second to none west of Chi
cago and north of St. Louis. He is one
of the wealthiest. and most prominent
and influential business men, and it is
through unceasipg industry and thorough
of business that he has at
tanned the position he has. His pork
packing establishment has wide repu-
tation, and it has been so long associated
with the city's leading industries, that
Rock Island would feel lost without it.
Mr.. Gilmore gives employment to As men
during the buichering and packing sea-
son, and so far this season has put up A.
500 hogs. The number slaughtered in a
season usually reaches 10000. and the
present season Just fairly begun, will not
fall short of that humber. The yearly in
come of Mr.. Gilmore's slaughtering house
and packing house amounts to 800. 900.
Mr.. Gilmore has made number of i'm
about his packing house dur
ng the past year, adding new private
office and renovating the general BUSH
ness Office completely.