History of northern Wisconsin, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources; an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories; biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; views of county seats, etc., Part 234

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052

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The Sheboygan Telephone Exchange was put in opera- tion in June, 1881, by C. II. Haskins & Co., of Milwaukee, and has thirty-nine subscribers. J. L. Mallory is the local manager.

A large business is done at the Sheboygan agency of the American Express Company. The shipments consist of general merchandise, and products of the manufactories. J. L. Mallory is the agent of the company.

An average business of $2,000 per quarter is done at the Sheboygan Post Office. J. L. Marsh is Postmaster.

A military company was organized in Sheboygan, No- vember 4, 1874, and re-organized as a part of the State militia in March, 1877, under the name of the Evergreen City Guards. Ninety-two names are now on the muster- roll. The officers are Captain, Charles A. Born ; First Lieutenant, II. W. Trester; Second Lieutenant, Robert Sym. Capt. Born is also Major commanding the Second Battalion Wisconsin Militia, so that when on duty the com-

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mand of the Guards falls to Lieut. Trester. The company have a fine armory, and are proficient in drill.

The Beekman House, D. W. Halsted proprietor, is located near the business center, and is the largest hotel in the city. It is a favorite stopping-place for summer visit- ors and commercial traveling men.

The Park Hotel, E. G. Fosgate, proprietor, located op- posite the public park, with its mineral well, also entertains summer visitors, as well as the general public.

The Pape House, Hotel Abrahams, Washington House, Wisconsin House and one or two others furnish accommoda- tions for local trade and the traveling public.

FISHING.

Since an early day, the catching of white fish, which are found in the waters of the neighborhood, has been an im- portant industry at Sheboygan. As early as 1845, four extensive fisheries were in operation at Sheboygan and vicinity. Immense quantities of fish are caught in pound- nets, between the point south of the city and Amsterdam, in the same county. At Sheboygan, F. Koehn, Sr., is the oldest fisherman who has regularly followed the business, beginning in a small way, with hooks, in 1853. Now he employs the tug lloffnung and half-a-dozen hands in gill- net fishing. He places his annual catch at 200,000 pounds. Most of the fish are shipped to Chicago fresh, though Mr. Koehn also smokes and cures some.

Feagan & Fairchild also do a large business in fishing. They use the tug Maggie Lutz, just newly refitted. Their average shipment amounts to 9,000 pounds per month.

E. Sonnemann & Co. prosecute gill-net fishing with the yacht Smuggler, and their monthly average is placed at from 8,000 to 9,000 pounds this season. They ship the fish while fresh to Chicago.

Adam Schraut has been in the business twelve years. He uses the yacht Alberdin, and ships 4,000 pounds per month.

Ole M. Ellison uses hooks exclusively, keeping 1,000 in the water during the season, and catches 3,000 pounds per month.

A few others, some using pound-nets, swell the above produet to a very large total yield for this point.

MANUFACTURING.

The motto of the first newspaper ever issued in Sheboy- gan, the Sheboygan Gazette, a few numbers of which were sent out to inform the world of the abundant promise for the future held out by Sheboygan to induce settlement here, was "Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce-united they stand." In few localities in the West can the three great industries of the world be so appropriately linked to- gether as right here. The interests of agriculture and com- merce are treated elsewhere, and, as we take up manufact- ures, a large field opens before us, for the productions of Sheboygan factories are known in the leading markets of the world. In the production of bent chair stock, in par- ticular, Sheboygan leads the world.

The Sheboygan Manufacturing Company commeneed business in 1868, and was incorporated March 10, 1869. The corporators were S. M. Barrett, John Bertschy, S. B. Lyman, J. B. Corson, Henry Ocorr, William Elwell and John Sondrak. The authorized capital of the company is $200.000, but it began business with $19,000, paid up, and now has $100,000 paid up. Work was begun with twenty-

five hands ; now employment is given to about four hundred hands, with a pay roll of $8,000 monthly. The company also own mills located at Pine Lake, Mich., where fifty men are employed, and where the principal part of the material used in the manufacture of their chairs is cut. The business is confined exclusively to the making of bent stock chairs, of which they manufacture 450 styles, from toy chairs to the finest office chairs They also manufact- ure seating material for public buildings. The sales amount to $200,000 per annum, extending all over the United States, and to some extent to foreign countries. The sales are almost exclusively made to jobbers, the retail trade not being sought. No traveling salesmen are employed. Mr. S. M. Barrett, of Cincinnati, a large manufacturer, is Pres- ident of the company, and it was largely due to his sug- gestions and energy that the business was started. Ile retains a large interest in the business. although residing in Cincinnati. G. L. Holmes, is Vice President and Superin- tendent, F. R. Townsend. Treasurer, and H. A. Barrett, Secretary. E. R. Holmes, with the officers named, form the Board of Directors. All are residents of Sheboygan except S. M. Barrett. The factory uses about four million feet of lumber per annum, and turns out about twelve hun- dred chairs per day, which is about the number they made per month when the business was commenced. The com- pany is unable to fill all its orders, and expects soon to about double the present facilities in order to be able to meet the demand.

The Phoenix Chair Company was incorporated May 3, 1875. The first Board of Directors chosen consisted of Thomas M. Blackstock, James H. Mead, Francis Geele, John H. Plath and Fred Koehn. J. H. Mead was chosen President and T. M. Blackstock, Secretary. A year later, T. M. Blackstock was elected President and Gen eral Manager; J. H. Mead, Secretary. The capital stock of the company is $50,000, all paid np when the bus- iness commenced. At first, 75 men were employed, now 370 are on the pay-roll, which amounts to from $7,000 to $8,000 per month. The business is exclusively the manu- facture of bent stock chairs, of which over 400 varieties are made, the product averaging about 1,200 daily. About 3,000,000 feet of lumber are used annually. The sales amounted, in 1876, to $70,000; now they foot up about $200,000 per annum. The present Board of Directors con- sists of T. M. Blackstock, J. H. Mead, F. Geele, J. H. Plath, Christian Neumeister. Large additions to the fac- tory are being made, to enable the company to keep up with its trade.

The Crocker Chair Company was incorporated March 31, 1880, and commeneed business under the management of a Board of Directors, consisting of J. II. Mcad, W. D. Crocker, A. D. Crocker, R. E. Crocker, W. J. Rietow. The officers elected were: J. H. Mead, President; W. D. Crocker, Superintendent; J. D. Stearns, Secretary ; W. J. Rietow, Treasurer. A. D. Crocker has charge of the fin- ishing department, and R. E. Crocker of the wood-working department. Capital, $30,000. About 50 hands were at first employed, and the number has now been increased 175. The factory turns out about 750 bent and sawed stock eane and wood seat chairs per day. The sales amount to $150 .- 000 per annum.

George B. Mattoon commenced business in his furniture factory July 5, 1881, and employs fifty hands. Ile manufact- ures principally bedsteads, tables and washstands, and turns

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out about 3,500 bedsteads per month. This is the only bed- stead factory in this region.

E. B. Garton and John Griffith employ from twenty to twenty-five hands in their planing-mill and toy manufac- tory. Their principal business, beside planing, is making toy express wagons, etc. They do a business of about 815,000 annually, their sales being made principally in the Southern and Western States.

A plaster-mill is operated by William Elwell, the ala- baster being brought from Saginaw Bay. IFis machinery is capable of turning out seventy-five tons per day, and is operated about four months in the year. Ten men are em- ployed during that time. Ilis sales amount to about $18,000 per year.

In 1853, C. T. & William Roenitz commenced the business of tanning, and continued together until the death of William Roenitz, which occurred in 1873. The business was continued by C. T. Roenitz until January 1, 1881, when he took into partnership with him his sons Frank L. and Charles H., under the firm title of C. T. Roenitz & Sons. When the brothers commeneed business, in 1853, they had but one assistant : now there are forty men em- ployed, who work up about 600 sides per week. They make harness, upper, kip and calf leather.

Christian Heyer commeneed business in 1855, with capital of $400, and employed six men. In 1859, he be- gan work in the present location with $2,000 capital, in partnership with Theodore Zsehetzsche. After fourteen years the partnership was dissolved. Mr. Heyer now em- ploys about forty men and works up 100 sides a day. Ile makes harness, upper, kip and calf leather, all finished on the premises. The sales amount to about $150.000 per annum, reaching to all parts of the country. No goods are shipped on consignment.

Theodore Zschetzsche commenced business as a tanner, in 1859, in company with Christian Heyer. After fourteen years he withdrew, and began business for himself. His son, Carl L., is now in partnership with him, and the firm is now Theodore Zsehetzsche & Son. They employ about 200 men, and have a capacity in their large and well-ap- pointed establishment of 240 sides, and from 500 to 600 skins per day. Their sales extend all over the United States, and amount to about $600,000 per annum.

About the year 1866, Adam Harsch commenced the business of tanning. He works 120 sides a week, making all kinds of leather, principally finished work. Eight hands are generally employed.

J. F. A. Heyn began tanning in 1868. From 1873 to 1875 George End was a partner in the business ; since that time, Mr. Heyn has carried on the business without a part- ner. About 300 sides per week are worked up into upper, kip and ealf leather, all finished. He also tans harness leather, but does not finish it.

In the tannery of Adam Schneider, started in 1877, ten men are employed, working from 150 to 200 sides per week. Upper, kip and calf leather is made, and most of it finished in his own establishment. Sales are made prin- eipally in Chicago, New York and Boston.

Kohler, Hayssen & Stehn, proprietors of the Sheboygan Agricultural Works, commenced business in their present location in June, 1880. The firm has been in existence since 1878. their shops being first located on the corner of Ninth and St. Clair streets, where they were burned out April 4, 1880. They manufacture straw cutters, feed mills,

horse powers, small threshing machines, lawn, cemetery and other iron fenees, general machinery and foundry work. Thirty men are employed, and a business is transacted of from 830,000 to $40,000 per year. Mr. Kohler com- meneed business with a partner, Mr. Silberzahn, in 1873, with only six workmen in the shop.

When the business of Foeste & Meyer was begun in 1861, six men, including the partners, were engaged in it. They now employ twenty-five men. They manufacture threshing machines, feed eutters, thimble skeins, mill machinery, steam engines, plows, serapers, wagon castings, kettles, etc. Their sales are principally made in the North- west.

David Jenkins commeneed the business of manufactur- ing machinery in 1876 with one man to help him. Now he employs eight men and devotes most of his attention to chair factory machinery and repairs. He also makes machines for turning wagon and buggy hubs. He has just entered a new shop, one of the most elegant and perfect in the State.

Jacob J. Vollrath commenced to make enameled hollow ware with six men to assist him. In August, 1881, he employed forty men, and, in November, 1881, when his new building is completed he expects to employ one hundred hands. The sales before the new shops went into operation amounted to 850,000 per annum, and with increased facili- ties he expects to more than double his business. He uses gas for fuel, making it himself, and is the first manufacturer in the State to use gas extensively for fuel in running machinery.

There are three briek vards in the eity, with facilities for turning out three millions of briek annually. The largest one, that of Joseph Keller, began operations in 1875. Its production is estimated at 1,500,000, and a large part of them are shipped by railroad and boat for use at other places. The grinding and pressing of the clay is done by steam. About twenty men are constantly employed.

Charles Froehlich began the manufacture of brick in 1871. He employs twelve hands, making yearly 900,000 briek, which are largely sold in the city.

The brick-yard of Fred Zurrheide has a yearly pro- duction of 500,000, and has been in operation for some years.

H. E. Roth has five kilns located about three miles northwest of the city, where an excellent quality of lime is produced. The kilns have a capacity for burning 200 bar- rels per day.

The stoneware factory of Theodore Gunther was started in 1863, employs ten men and turns out 8.000 gallons of ware per month. The clay is brought from Whitehall, Ill.

Mies & Walters commenced the manufacture of stone- ware six years ago. In April, 1881, the firm changed to Diedrich, Mies & Co. The institution is called the North- western Stoneware Manufactory. Jars, jugs, churns, milk pans, milk pitchers, tomato jugs, ete., are turned out. The product of the factory is 4,000 gallons every fourteen days.

Although the manufacture of wagons, carriages and sleighs is not enrried on in Sheboygan on an extensive seale, yet the united products of the nine or ten shops, measurably meet the local demand, and export some of their goods. The following are some of the concerns in operation.

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J. Jung began business in 1855, and has enlarged his facilities from time to time. He employs nine hands, and does a business of $10,000 annually.

John Balzar began to make wagons and carriages about twenty-five years ago. Five workmen are employed.

The firm of Alday & Duenkel began business in 1876. For men are employed, and turn out about twenty wagons yearly.

William Kruger started in business fourteen years ago, and built the present shop in 1876. His work is all ordered in advance. Three hands are employed.

A. Beutel started about three years ago, and employs three hands in the wagon-shop, and two blacksmiths.

C. B. Henschel started in the business of manufacturing fanning-mills about twenty years ago, and has made in all nearly 12,000 mills. At the beginning of the present year, he added the manufacture of cigar-box lumber to his other business. Steam machinery is used, and nine hands are employed.

W. H. & C. E. Burk started a general wood-working shop about three years ago. Steam power is used.

Konrad Schrier built his present brewery in 1854. He employs seventeen men, and produces 7,000 barrels of beer per annum. Two other concerns are also employed in brewing.

A large aggregate production of cooperage is turned out from quite a number of shops, employing from one man to six men each.

Charles Grasse has been about fifteen years in business, and employs six hands. He runs two shops, and turns out about 3,000 barrels a year.

John Kroeff started twenty-five years ago, works six hands, and turns out 1,200 pork barrels, and 2,000 tierces. Louis Grube employs five hands, and makes about 5,000 flour and pea barrels, and 1,000 pork barrels and tierces annually. He has been in business fifteen years.

Charles Oehler makes beer kegs, in which three men are employed. He started in business about twenty-five years ago.

Joseph Landgraf, John Flaig, Joseph Keller. Fred Rakow, Fred Moebius and a few others, employ one or two hands or work alone, and make pork barrels and tierces.

The repair shops of the Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Railroad have been running in Sheboygan ever since the road has been running. In 1874, they were burned and re-built. About forty men are employed. John Hickey, the present master mechanic has been here seven years.

MARINE INTERESTS.

The natural advantages existing at the mouth of the Sheboygan River for the construction of a good harbor at- tracted early attention. In 1836, Government officers pros- ecuted surveys and soundings, from which a chart was made of the mouth of the river and the bay. These results were reported to the War Department by Col. Albert in 1838. About the year 1840, a lighthouse was built on Sheboygan Point, and first kept by Mr. Wolverton. The present light- house was constructed in 1860, and is kept by Mrs. E. Pape. The first pier was built by William Farnsworth in 1841, at the foot of Center street, north of the mouth of the river. In 1845, this pier was extended to a total length of 800 feet, and doubled back to give greater capac- ity. In 1847, Kirkland's Pier, south of the river, was begun, and finished in 1848. In the spring of 1852, a

fierce gale swept away both piers. The north one was im- mediately reconstructed, and the south one was made ready for business in the spring following. These lasted until the harbor made them no longer necessary. At the session of Congress in the winter of 1844-45, an appropriation of $25,000 was carried through for the improvement of navi- gation over the bar at the mouth of Sheboygan River, but it was killed by President Tyler's withholding his signa- ture. In 1849, a committee of citizens of Sheboygan pre- pared a memorial to Congress setting forth various and im- perative reasons why a harbor should be constructed at this point. They showed, among other things, that every vessel owned at this port had been wrecked or stranded, and thus a loss of property occasioned approximating to the cost of a harbor. A list of nine schooners is given which were wrecked while lying in the bay. Several lives were lost in these disasters. As showing that the shipping business had as- sumed sufficient importance to demand better facilities, it was shown that in 1847 the arrivals and departures of steamers alone, without noting sail vessels, was 423, and in 1848 the number was 525. The arrivals of immigrants at the port of Sheboygan was 1,417 in 1845, 4,380 in 1846, 4,228 in 1847, and 6,200 in 1848. The imports of mer- chandise in 1848 amounted to 2,859 tons, estimated value $571,800. The exports included 986 barrels of fish and 5,015 bushels of wheat, besides lumber and shingles, wool, ashes, etc. On the 5th of January, 1852, a meeting of cit- izens of Sheboygan was held, to discuss what measures should be adopted to secure the construction of a harbor. W. R. Gorsline was Chairman of the meeting and Edward Gilman Secretary. It was decided to call a delegate con- vention, which was done, 131 delegates responding in a meeting held January 22, 1852, and representing the lake shore and adjacent towns, fourteen in all. Silas B. Sted- man was President of this convention, and Vice Presidents and Secretaries were chosen from the various towns. The result of the conference was that the General Government should be requested to appropriate $30,000, the county of Sheboygan $20,000, and the city $10,000, for the improve- ment of the harbor. The Congress then in session made the desired appropriation, and the Legislature also passed an act to authorize the county and city to raise and appro- priate the amounts named. A. P. Lyman, Henry Stock, Charles D. Cole, Jonathan F. Seeley, A. G. Dye, Reed C. Brazelton and John Gove were appointed Harbor Commis- sioners, and, on February 20, 1852, the contract was let for the work. These appropriations were supplemented, from time to time, by additional sums of money, until up to the present time there has been expended upon the harbor nearly $275,000, of which sum the United States has furnished 8201,000. The length of the piers is now about fourteen hundred feet, and the harbor has a width at its mouth of 270 feet. The bar at the mouth still causes so much trouble to loaded vessels that the Government has decided to extend the piers 1,000 feet further, and the work is already in progress. It is expected that it will take about four years to complete it. A lighthouse was placed upon the north pier of the harbor, and first lighted December 1, 1873. It was burned March 17, 1880, and rebuilt soon after, so that it was lighted June 20. John H. Roberts is Light Keeper ; J. L. Mallory is Deputy Collector of Customs.

The arrivals at this port for 1880 were 394 side-wheel steamers, with tonnage of 281,852 ; 268 propellers, tonnage 154,266; 371 schooners, tonnage 23,925. Clearances the

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same. Thirty-four schooners and four tugs are owned at Sheboygan. The Goodrich Transportation Company's line of steamers stop at Sheboygan daily. going both north and south. E. P. Ewer is the company's agent.

One of the most appalling disasters of early days on the lakes was the burning of the propeller Phoenix a few miles off' Sheboygan in the fall of 1847. The engineer had been warned of the danger. but he with others of the crew were carousing and paid no attention to the repeated warn- ings. Suddenly the flames broke forth, and as the boat was heavily loaded with emigrants and other passengers. the scene which ensued was one of horror. Two hundred lives were lost.

By the bursting of the boilers of the propeller Kenosha in July, 1860, while lying in this port, twenty or more people were scalded or injured, and six or eight lives were lost in consequence.

In this connection may be mentioned the raging of the cholera in 1852. The disease, complicated with ship fever. was brought to Sheboygan by emigrants, and for a few weeks the fatality was terrible. About one hundred and twenty-five persons perished, many of them with extreme suddenness.

A United States Life Saving Station, No. 16, was established at Sheboygan, and a building erected in Febru- ary, 1876. The following year a surf boat was provided and manned with a volunteer crew. July 1, 1879. a paid crew was put in charge of the station with a full equipment. The house now contains a patent life-boat, costing $4,000, capable of righting herself up if swamped, and emptying herself of water, a new surf boat, a life car, a breeches buoy, a boat cart, a beach apparatus cart, one Lyle gun, one mortar, signal flags, pump, lines, shot lines, and other appliances. The cost of the station and its equipment was about 811,000, and is maintained for eight months of the year at an expense of about $3,200. The crew consists of Capt. Ole Groh and seven men, who are required to drill regularly, keep a lookout during the day, and patrol the beach at night from point to point of the bay. They have been instrumental in rescuing a number of lives within a year, besides saving property, and resuscitating several per- sons apparently drowned.

BUSINESS INTERESTS.

Although so favorably located, Sheboygan was tardy in inaugurating the conditions of its present substantial business success. Many reasons conspired to this result. For many years, commerce was entirely confined to lake traffic, and during a portion of this time the pierage charges were equal to the freights from Buffalo. Notwithstanding its drawbacks, a large amount of business was done by way of the lake in early days. During the month of Septem- ber, in 1852, the imports at this port amounted to 401 tons. In the same month in the following year they in- creased to 683 tons, and in September, 1854, to 2,144 tons. The steamboat arrivals during the same month were 96, and of sailing vessels, 26. The number of passengers arriving, 2.687. In the list of exports for the same month are noted : Number of passengers departed, 1.187; bush- els of wheat shipped, 3.527 ; bushels of barley. 300; bushels of grass-seed. 209; bushels of potatoes, 550 ; bushels of cranberries, 50 ; barrels of flour, 655 ; lumber. 283,000 feet : lath, 368,000; shingles, 289,000 ; staves, 395,000 ; half barrels of beer, 251 : half barrels of fish,

531; empty barrels, 754; tons saleratus, 14; brick, 167,- 000 ; and other articles. During one week in October of the following year, one firm received daily an average of 10,000 bushels of wheat. The same firm shipped about 20,000 bushels of wheat, besides several hundred tons of other produce, the same week. In running through the list of exports for the year 1858, leading articles only are noted, as follows: Bundles of chair-stuff, 2,704 ; hoops, 40,000; bushels of wheat. 114.612; barley, 1,937 ; oats, 35,141 ; grass-seed, 2,564; potatoes, 1,260 ; half barrels of fish, 5,778; barrels of flour, 17,532; balf barrels of beer, 13,437 ; lumber, 663,000 feet : staves, 10,000; casks of ashes, 377; empty barrels, 25,347 ; bundles of wagon-stuff, 10,851: cords of wood. 21,542; shingles, 2,500,000 ; lath. 231,900. The arrivals and departures were each : Steamboats, 312 ; propellers, 164 : sail ves- sels, 283. Seventeen schooners were owned in Sheboygan in that time, and many were built there. A statement pre- pared abont ten years later shows that 1.114 crafts of all classes entered and cleared at Sheboygan, and also the re- markable fact that for the seven years preceding 1868, there had not been a single week without an arrival and clearance being regularly reported. During the year there was exported 430,000 bushels of wheat, 13.000 barrels of flour. 167,060 pounds of wool, 20,000 pounds of butter, and 50.000 dozens of eggs. A similar statement for the year 1870 showed less wheat shipped and more flour, and included 37,551 bushels of peas, 15,446 bundles of wagon- stuff, 28,404 packing barrels, 4,935 barrels of lime, and other articles. A more complete statement of the import, and more particularly the export, trade by lake and by railroad for the year 1880, is here given. The record of receipts is not kept by the railroad offices. The receipts by boat were: 10,000 cords of bark, 800 barrels of cement, 8,000 tons of coal, 20.000 bushels of corn. 5.600 tons of general merchandise, 250,000 hides, 200,000 lath, 40,- 000,000 feet of lumber, 1.000,000 pickets, 3,000 tons of gypsum or plaster rock, 6,000 posts, 10,000 barrels of salt, 5,500,000 shingles, 2,000 cords of slabs. 100 barrels of stucco, 2,000 cords of wood. There was shipped by lake in 1880 of Sheboygan and Sheboygan County productions 40,000 bushels of barley, 10,000 bushels of beans, 1,500,- 000 brick, 120,000 pounds of butter, 1,500 tons of cast- ings, 900 cattle, 850,000 chairs, 6.106,485 pounds cheese, 500,000 dozens eggs, 1.000 tons feed. 550,000 pounds fish, 20.000 barrels of flour. 5.300 tons general merchandise. 200 tons of grass-seed, 1.000 hogs, 800 horses, 2,500 tons land plaster. 1.600,000 pounds leather, 8.000 barrels lime, 80,000 bushels peas. 30,000 pork barrels and tierces. 7,000 bushels of potatoes, 10,000 bushels of rye, 800 sheep, 300,000 bushels of wheat. 500 tons of wooden ware, 40,000 pounds of wool. 50,000 bushels of oats, 1.000 tons of hay. The following shipments were made over the Lake Shore Railroad in 1880, the record being invariably in pounds : Wheat, 2,257,170; barley. 663,390; corn, 8,640; rye, 404.130 ; flour. 251,260 ; beef and pork in brine, 1,560 ; beans, 92,620 ; butter. 71.400 ; cheese. 4,778,470 ; dressed hogs. 15,390 : eggs, 130,760; fresh fish, 889,350; salt fish, 7.060 ; potatoes and garden roots, 186,700 ; peas, 1.605.920; salt. 105.030 ; land plaster. 913,550; agricult- ural implements, 203,680 ; barrels, tierees, casks and kegs. 3,131,980 : chairs and furniture, 2,048,510; leather, 1. 315,960 ; machinery, 141,140; wagon stock, 2,800 wooden ware, 386,050; horses, 25,000; horned cattle

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Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company Number of Pages: 1052

Author: Western historical co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Chicago, Western historical company
Number of Pages: 1052