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STOUT, MILLS & TEMPLE, DAYTON, O.
THE Globe Iron Works, whose proprietors are A. L. Stout, Wm. M. Mills, and J. Temple, under the firm style of Stout, Mills & Temple, is a continuation of the second foundry in this State, dating back its origin as early as 1828. They now manufacture the American Turbine Water-wheel, flour mill and paper-mill machinery, gearing and shafting of every description, French burr mill-stones, and general mill furnishings. The American Turbine Water-wheel has not only gained a national reputation, but is used extensively in foreign countries. The long experience of this company, and their practi- cal knowledge of the manufacturing interests of the country, enable them to keep pace with all new and useful improvements. They are the acknowledged leaders as the inventors and manufacturers of turbine water-wheels, having made them a specialty for the past twenty-two years. The present turbine wheel, made by them, has been the result of over sixteen years of perseverance toward perfection, and in the present high state of usefulness and practicability stands without an equal, both in design, work- manship, and the percentage of the power of water utilized. A very serious defect has long been experienced in adapting turbine wheels to small variable streams of water, in consequence of a wheel of a given capacity not having any mechanical device by which a greater or less amount of water could be applied and used without a very large per- centage of loss in the useful effect of water employed. Of the many attempts to remedy this defect in the application of turbine water-wheels, none has, before the invention of the American turbine, patented by themselves, practically succeeded in producing a turbine water-wheel that would produce as high a percentage with partial or with full gates. Many thousands of dollars have been expended in endeavoring to accomplish this much-desired result; and it has been said by many scientific and practical men of acknowledged ability that it never could be attained. The American turbine has demon- strated, beyond the possibility of successful contradiction, that this has been accomplished to the entire satisfaction of hundreds who have had many years' experience in the use of water as a motive power.
The works of this company are on a mammoth scale, and are furnished with the most improved machinery and appliances for the manufacture of every thing in their. line. Large illustrated catalogue sent free on application to Stout, Mills & Temple, Dayton, Ohio.
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BUCKEYE AGRICULTURAL WORKS, P. P. MAST & CO., SPRINGFIELD, O.
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P. P. MAST & CO., SPRINGFIELD, O.
THE above company, who are engaged in the manufacture of grain drills, broadcast seeders, cultivators, cider-mills, plow sulkies, hay-rakes, Anderson steamers, etc., was incorporated in December, 1871. under the State laws of Ohio, with a capital of $500,- ooo, though the history of the organization dates back as far as 1856, when the busi- ness was started by Thomas & Mast; and out of this firm, who started the business with $15,000, grew the present company. Few companies, conducting a business of as large proportions as this, make less display in its transactions, or move so quietly forward. The gentlemen at the head of it are progressive and enterprising. They did not con- sider the achievements of one year a criterion for the future, but looked upon it as an encouragement to try for greater results. They have also shown the same enterprise for improving the working and usefulness of the goods they make, and to this peculiarity of their management is due the prosperity of their business. Each year some new device has been introduced, or a change made in the working of their machinery, which, after tests of nineteen years, have given them their present perfection. Among the well- known products of this establishment is the famous Buckeye Grain-drill; the Buckeye Force-feed Broadcast Seeder, which consists of a positive force-feed, so constructed that you can regulate the quantity anywhere between one-half bushel of wheat and three bushels of oats in an instant, without any extra gears or any change of gears ; the latest improved Buckeye Cider-mill. and Press; Improved Riding or Walking Cultivator, with four and five shovels ; Champion Self-dumping Rake ; Buckeye Plow Sulky, which can be attached to any common plow ; "Anderson" Agricultural Steamer, for steaming food for stock; Anderson High-pressure Boiler, for running engines, and are of indispensable worth to farmers, printing establishments, warehousemen, cheese factories-in fact, for any purpose where from two to ten horse-power is needed; also Kipp's patent steam- engines, which are the most simple in the market-powerful, direct in action, made of as few parts as possible, and all accessible. The business annually transacted is enor- mous, and comprises the sale of 4,500 drills, 3,000 broadcast seeders, 3,000 riding or walking cultivators, 2.000 hay-rakes, 1,000 plow sulkies, and 250 portable boilers, which, to manufacture, gives constant employment to 325 hands. The works, a fine view of which we present, have floor-space of about three acres, and two acres of roof. They have just finished another factory for the sole purpose of manufacturing boilers and engines. The buildings front on the railroad, and cover an area of three hundred by sixty feet, with an ell two hundred feet, three stories high, besides engine-room and other buildings. The organization is conducted under the name of Mast, Foos & Co .; and, with the energies of its personel, the prospect of Mast, Foos & Co., for a success- ful and long career, stands on a par with P. P. Mast & Co.
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CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL COMPANY, CLEVELAND.
THE above Company was organized in 1864, with a capital of $500,000, though they originally started as a private firm, in 1857, with the same principals. In addition to the original works, new and complete works of enlarged capacity have been erected from time to time, till the ground and works owned and operated by them cover an area of twenty acres, and their capital stock has been increased to $2,000,000, with a surplus of half that amount. They now manufacture, on a very large scale, Bessemer steel rails, iron rails, forgings, bar, spring, tire, steel wire, iron and steel boiler plate, galvanized and black sheet-iron, etc., and their works, which are located principally in the eighteenth Ward, comprise two blast furnaces, each having a capacity of 45 tons daily, one plate mill, situated adjoining other buildings, one steel and one iron rail mill; the former has a capacity for 40,000 tons of steel rails annually, and the latter, which is located on the lake shore, has a capacity of 100 tons of rails daily, double turn, and is furnished withi two fine 200-horse power engines, and employs 230 hands; bar, rod, and wire mills, forging hammer and machine shop; the whole consuming 150 tons of coke and 400 tons of coal daily, and give constant employment to 2,700 hands, they producing. annually $6,000,000, which is sold principally to railroads and iron and steel merchants all over the Western States. In the completeness, extent, and adaptation of all the tools and appointments required for, the production of iron and steel in its different shapes as made by this Company these works are without a rival, while at the same time they possess every facility requisite for the production of every thing from the raw material, saving all the intermediate profits necessarily charged by others.
'Sixteen miles from Marquette and sixty-nine from Escanaba are located their large iron ore mines, the products of which yield, from analysis, 667% metallic iron. These mines employ 400 miners and laborers, exclusive of those enumerated as belonging to the works at Cleveland, who mine 50,000 tons of ore annually, all of which is consumed by the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company. Their ores are considered the finest brought from the Superior Region, and from which they make the best grades of Bessemer metal. Their Bessemer cast spring steel is being largely used for the manufacture of carriage, car, and seat springs, they selling annually 2,000 tons. The better grades of their wire is also sold for spring purposes and for the manufacture of steel screws. The Company attends strictly to quality in all of its productions, and by this perfect system goods are always found to be as expected, and to perform what ought to be required of them.
The officers of the above Company are-A. B. Stone, President; H. Chisholm, Vice- President and General Manager; S. C. Baldwin, Treasurer and General Agent; E. S. Page, Secretary ; and the warehouse, offices, and counting-room are located at Nos. 99 and roi Water Street, Cleveland, where all the business is transacted. 'The clock-work regularity of this establishment secures the packing and shipping of all goods ordered within the shortest space of time possible. May we witness the growth of hundreds of such establishments, for they bring wealth and reputation to our State.
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STANDARD OIL WORKS, CLEVELAND, O.
To give even a faint idea of the immensity of the Standard Oil Works is a difficult task, for the reason that it is almost impossible for the visitor to obtain any very definite idea on the ground. . There are shops, and covered ways, and tanks, and paint houses, and cooper shops, and more covered ways, and more shops, and stills, and tanks, and car-tracks, and more covered ways, and more tanks, etc., until the mind of the visitor is fairly confused, and it seems a perfect labyrinth.
The ground covered is twenty acres, and the buildings and tanks appear to be with- out number. It is an immense institution, employing nearly 2,500 men and boys; 1,5co are required to furnish barrels alone, and the number of barrels of oil refined daily averages 10,000-nearly one-half the entire oil product of Pennsylvania-the remainder being refined principally at Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and New York. Think of it, 10, 000 barrels, or 420,000 gallons, of oil turned out daily from this one establishment-enough to furnish a light for twelve hours for every family in the United States.
. In the barrel department every thing is done by machinery-the staves and heading are cut by machinery, a machine puts the hoops on, one cuts the beveled edge, another prepares the head, while still another carries the finished barrel to the top story, where it is painted.
In another building were the paraffine vats, filled with the white, fatty substance which, in. a little while, would become the hard, opaque paraffine of commerce, and a. little later on would return, after a trip to New York, in the shape of candles. Here . were still-houses, where no lights were admitted, giant reflectors being set up at a dis- tance to throw light through the glass fronts of the still-houses. Here a huge tank bub- bled and boiled, and fumed and heaved, and rose and fell. This was an agitator, where the oil is mixed with sulphuric acid by pneumatic power, causing the heavy oil to sink with the acid to the bottom, leaving the clear, bluish oil on top. As it rises and falls, foaming and frothing under the influence of the blast, it almost seems to threaten us with a fate similar to Jonah's-only, I believe that it was sperm oil that Jonah got him- self into, and not rock oil, although he was "rocked in the cradle of the deep."
The Company have a paid-up capital of $3,500,000, and are governed by a pair of able business men-Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, President, and the General Superintendent, Mr. S. N. Andrews. Three-fourths of the production ordinarily goes to Europe, but at this season as much as 4,000 barrels are daily shipped to the West-a portion as far as San Francisco-while 60,000 barrels are annually shipped to Cincinnati. The oil is brought from the Butler Region of Pennsylvania, and costs about ten cents per gallon at the wells. Although the oil used is brought from Pennsylvania, it may be classified among the mineral interests of the State, in view of the immense industry to which its distillation and preparation have given rise. It is the principal among the industries of a city which claims to have 1, 149 manufacturing establishments in its vicinity, employing 10,000 men.
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MERIAM & MORGAN PARAFFINE CO., CLEVELAND, O.
THE above company was incorporated June 1, 1874, with an authorized capital of $600,000, of which $300,000 has already been paid in. The officers are E. P. Mor- gan, President ; J. B. Meriam, Vice-President and Treasurer ; and Win. Morgan, Super- intendent. The company was formed for the purpose of manufacturing cold-pressed paraffine oil, 25° gravity, refined paraffine wax, railroad and machinery oils, and axle grease. The firm, out of which the present company grew, was started in 1863 by More- house & Meriam, which, in 1865, changed to Morehouse, Meriam & Co., afterward Mer- iam & Morgan-the latter since 1869. The principal works and offices of the company are located at Nos. SI to 87 Central Way, corner of Ohio Street, the building being three stories-one hundred feet front and two hundred feet deep. They have also branch works on River Street, occupying sixty by two hundred feet, and two refineries, one occupying seven acres, on Kingsbury Run, and the other on the Heights. They use about two hundred and fifty barrels of 25° gravity distillate daily, which is the product of about 15,000 barrels of crude petroleum, and which they buy from the refiners of illuminating oil. At the principal works the oil is received through a pipe-line from the refinery one and a half miles distant into large tanks, and from which the oil is drawn directly into the freezing-cans, 770 in number, where, by a patent process, which con- suming eighteen tons of ice and ten barrels of salt daily, it is brought to a temperature of 10º Fahrenheit. The material is then put into patent presses, of which Mr. Mer- iam is the inventor and patentee, and the present corporation the sole proprietor. The works are furnished with one hundred and thirty of these presses, through which all the oil passes. They have eighty other presses, part lever and part hydraulic, by which the crude paraffine-wax receives a second pressing before going to the refinery, where it is converted into pure white candle-stock at the rate of 5,000 pounds daily. Oil made by this patent process stands a greater degree of cold, without thickening, than by any other mode. They have adopted all the best modern appliances, many of which are their own peculiar inventions, and adapted particularly to their works. They will shortly add to their works a barrel-house, seventy-five by one hundred feet, three stories high; also a building eighty by eighty, and three stories high, for storage and the manufacture of paraffine candles. " The Valley Railroad, which is now in process of con- struction, will pass through the grounds of this company, where their products are fin- ished, and will give them direct rail communication with all the roads centering in Cleveland. The Meriam and Morgan Paraffine Company will spare no pains to merit a continuance and extension of the confidence reposed in past years in its several members. · Their efforts will always be directed to the production of goods which will compete with any others in the market in the. three great essentials of quality, reliability, and price-a result which can only be achieved by those who have ample capital to take advantage of every saving item. They are among the heaviest capitalists in the business, giving constant employment to about one hundred men ; and their sales have reached $750, 000 annually.
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FOREST CITY VARNISH, OIL, AND NAPHTHA CO., CLEVELAND, O.
AMONG the many firms and companies, and one of the most prominent who transact the mammoth oil, varnish, and naphtha trade of Cleveland, is the Forest City Varnish, Oil, and Naphtha Company, who have now been established since 1862, then as a firm, though in 1867 it was incorporated under the State laws of Ohio. The officers are G. H. Stone, President; S. H. Shannon, Vice-President; M. P. Stone, Secretary and Treasurer ; and the works of the company are located on Commercial and Canal Streets, where they manufacture varnishes, Japans, naphtha, gasoline, and carbon oil. The offices are located at No. 26 (old No.) Euclid Avenue, where the business of the company is transacted. The company and the firm, out of which it grew, have now been established in Cleveland for thirteen years past, and have done their part toward multiplying the oil sales of the city. The extent of their business averages 700,000 to 800,000 dollars annually, and they employ in production thirty hands, exclusive of barrel-making-they buying them already manufactured. The varnishes and Japans made by them range in price from fifty cents to eight dollars per gallon. . They make a specialty of 63º naphtha; street-lamp gasoline, 75° gravity; and gasoline for machines from 80° to 90°. The varnish-house is on the hill, where is made all kinds of varnishes by various processes and ingredients, also in this building are fire-proof store-rooms for varnishes. In the upper room are thirty tanks, holding one thousand gallons each, and below are thirty-four tanks, varying in size from one hundred and twenty to one thousand gallons, for fine varnishes exclu- sively. This company runs ten stills, with a total capacity of five hundred barrels, for making all grades of light oils. The works are supplied with five iron condensing- boxes, two thousand seven hundred feet of coil in each, and have a full supply of spring-water for all their tanks. For fuel they use naphtha, which, besides being a great saving in labor and outlay, is, in case of fire, a safety, as the supply can be shut off immediately. They have twenty-two underground tanks; also a crude naphtha tank -- the latter holding 10,000 barrels. Then comes the agitating and barreling room, which is large and spacious. The barrels are received, finished with the exception of being glued; this is done in the establishment-they taking great care to have them properly glued, using glue manufactured by Peter Cooper, of New York. Their storage capacity is 100,000 barrels; also canning department, where oils are canned for the Southern trade-it taking.just seven hundred five-gallon cans to make a car-load. We need scarcely refer to the standing of the company-that speaks for itself. The long course of years, in which they have transacted an ever-increasing business, without a single instance of having failed to live up to the spirit as well as the mere letter of their con- tracts, is the basis of a business confidence which is as wide-spread as their extensive business relations.
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MIX & COOKE, OIL REFINERS, CLEVELAND, O.
THE firm of Mix & Cooke is composed of L. D. Mix and W. P. Cooke, and is a continuation of Mix & Arter, who started the business as early as 1865. In 1867 Mr. Mix became sole proprietor, and so continued till 1872, when Mr. Cooke became a partner and the present firm style was adopted. They have now in operation the Atlantic Carbon Oil Works, located on the A. &. G. W. R. R., on Central Way, the Eagle Lubricating Oil Works and Cleveland Naphtha Works, on Commercial, near Canal. They furnish constant employment to twenty inen, and do an annual business of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The lubricating and naphtha works are furnished with four stills, each having a capacity of thirty-five barrels, and the works are furnished with every improvement known that cheapens labor and gives security to the product, including agitators, bleachers, barreling room, etc., and the different gravities made by them range from 62° to 87º. The Atlantic Works, on Central Way and the A. & G. W. R. R., receive the oil from tank cars to their own tanks at the works, and the works being on the railroad, the oil is pumped from the storage tanks to tank cars when ready for shipment. The works are supplied with stills, including all the necessary attach- ments, the capacity of which are one hundred and thirty-five barrels.
This house is immediately connected with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Tank Line Co., which was incorporated for the express purpose of transporting refined oil in bulk, the company having numerous stations on their route at which they have ample facilities for barreling the oil directly from the tank cars, thus avoiding breakage and leakage, which of necessity must take place when the oil is shipped in barrels; besides, it does away with all litigation, and the trouble and expense of settling claims with the railroad companies in regard to losses made when oil is barreled here and shipped on the cars in packages. The officers of this company are, W. P. Cooke, President; L. D. Mix, Secretary; and A. A. Bailey, General Manager. They were incorporated, with an authorized capital of $500,000, over $200,000 of .which is paid up. Their present capacity for shipping is one million gallons of refined oil annually.
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C. L. MOREHOUSE & SON, OILS, CLEVELAND, O.
THE above firm is composed of C. L. and C. F. Morehouse, whose office is at 26 Merwin Street, and the senior partner is one of the oldest oil men among us, having been in the business here for fifteen years past. He commenced when oil commenced to be taken from terra firma, and has grown with its growth and strengthened with its strength. In 1860 Mr. C. L. Morehouse commenced refining, compounding, and preparing lubricating oils, and continued in the business until 1862, when a copartner- ship was formed, and the firm became Morehouse & Meriam. This, in 1864 or 1865, gave way to Morehouse, Meriam & Co., who continued business till 1869, when More- house, Freeman & Crumbs became their successors. Soon after their works were destroyed by fire, when Mr. Crumb retired, leaving Morehouse & Freeman to conduct the business till 1872, at which date Morehouse, Rockefeller & Co. became their
successors. After this followed the Morehouse Oil & Wax Company. Now the firm is C. L. Morehouse & Son, Mr. Morehouse having lately given his son, C. F., an interest, who has been regularly educated to the business under the supervision and instruction of his father, and has been connected with the manufacturing department for some time past. Mr. C. L. Morehouse is well versed in all the various manipulations of crude, animal, and carbon oils to the finished article, and has brought seventeen distinct products out of earth oil. His reputation is as wide as our vast country; for he has been at the head of each enterprise he was ever connected with, and been eminently successful, practically and financially, and has associated himself with others merely to increase capital and production. He has now arrangements completed for the erection of a large manufacturing department in New York-the building to be 340x110 feet, three stories high-for the manufacture of paraffine lubricating oils, wax, and grease ; and, with his reputation and ability, we predict for the new 'enterprise unparalleled success, even in this age of marvelous prosperity, as his goods are always recognized as standard. and his sales have always averaged $300,000 to $400,000 annually. Yes, by enterprise, diligence, and industry the firm have established a wide-spread reputation, and their lubricating productions are far superior to any paraffine lubricants in the country. They are of a rich, golden color, perfectly free from wax, gum, or acids, and particularly adapted to general machinery, compounding, and factory uses. Their terms will always compare favorably with those obtainable elsewhere, while the quality of the goods supplied can not do otherwise than please; and all orders are not only filled punctually, but with due attention to the wishes of the buyer in other respects. The aim of Mr. Morehouse has always been to so serve his patrons that they should buy none other's goods; and in this policy has laid the foundation of a vast and ever- increasing business.
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W. H. DOAN, OILS AND NAPHTHA, CLEVELAND, O.
THE manufacture, refining, distilling. and redistilling of oils, naphtha, etc., has now assumed an importance that is scarcely less than that of the great iron and lumber inter- est, which has made Cleveland one of the principal markets of the world. Among the largest manufacturers, and one of the heavy capitalists engaged in this branch, is W. H. Doan, whose large works are located on the A. and G. W. Railroad, Kingsbury Run, Sixth Ward, with offices for the transaction of all business connected with the works, at rooms 11 and 12, Standard Block; and his connection with the oil business dates back as far as 1865. The works produce gasoline, No. 1, 85°, 87º, SSº, and 90º, redis- tilled for gas-machines; No. 2, 74°, redistilled for petroleum, stores, street-lamps, and vapor-burners; No. 3, 74°, redistilled and deodorized for petroleum, stores, street-lamps, and vapor-burners ; No. 4, naphthas, 68° to 70°, redistilled and deodorized; No. 5, naphtha, 63º, redistilled and deodorized for paints, varnishes. etc. ; No. 6, painters' fluid; also all kinds of burning oils, making a specialty of water-white oil, being almost void of odor, and of high gravity and high test. As many of the above productions are transported in cans, Mr. Doan has taken advantage of a patent can-faucet, lately invented, of which he, with one other party, have the entire ownership, and by which means oil can be drawn off at option, and closed immediately-the can being perfectly air-tight- making a saving from evaporation ard leakage, which must necessarily occur when in barrels. The goods packed in these cans are intended principally for the Southern and Western markets. The oil is received, without pumping, from tank cars into the receptacle for the crude liquid, the capacity of which is 10,000 barrels; the material is also distributed from the receptacle to the different stills without pumping. The works are furnished with eight of these stills, aggregating a capacity of four hundred and forty barrels. The water-box contains 5.500 feet of iron pipe. used in condensing. There are also eight stills for gasoline, with a capacity, for distilling, of seven hundred and forty barrels daily, and three tar stills, having a capacity of one hundred barrels, making a total of nineteen stills, with a combined capacity of over eight hundred bar- rels, and; in all, thirty-five tanks, holding fifty thousand barrels, used for storage, most of which are underground, exclusive of two agitators, four hundred barrels capacity, and six bleachers, over five hundred barrels capacity. Naphtha is used at these works for fuel, being less expensive, labor-saving, and, in case of fire, the supply can be shut off at a moment's notice. The store-rooms, for empty barrels, hold six thousand pack- ages, besides filling-rooms, cellars for storing oils, two boiler-rooms, situated in different parts of the grounds, which supply steam for ten pumps, and for pumping oil, air, and water-the latter in case of fire-the works having hose and fire attachments. The drying-house, just completed, is forty by sixty feet, with kettle-house detached, which contains four kettles; capacity, one hundred and six gallons each. Mr. Wilbur, who has charge of the works, is eminently practical in all the various branches.
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