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Dubuque Manufactures-1869

ROUSE, DEAN, BOOTH, MARSHALL, MCGHIE, CUMMINGS, CLARK, COWLES, HERANCOURT, WOODWARD, STEVENS, HOOPER, HAMLIN, WAGNER, COOPER, CONNOLLY, TRUDELL, ARMSTRONG, ROBERTS, BRADLEY, BROMMENSHENKEL, BROWN, KOCH, PAILL, THIELAN, RANDOLPH, WUNDERLICH, YOUNG, BEACH, PLEINE, HEEB, SCHERR, PEASLEE, FOCKLER, KEMPF, TSCHIRGI, SCHWIND, GLABB, DUNCAN, GEIGER, ARMINGTON, MYERS, CARR, AUSTIN, PATCH, WAIT, DICKINSON, RANDALL, LUMBERT, SCOTT

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Date: 3/11/2018 at 23:04:08

Friday, January 01, 1869, Dubuque, Iowa, Page: 1

Manufactures

In our last annual report we gave full description of our various manufacturing establishments, giving their character, capacity, etc. although we should like to repeat those descriptions at this time, our space will only admit of a reference to them in this respect-describing their quality in brief.

Engine Builders & Founders
Rouse & Dean’s extensive engine and machine shops and foundry are situated on the corner of Washington and Ninth Streets. Their work is not supervised by any builders, and their orders come from all parts of the country. Capital over $75,000 and employs a force of fifty workmen. Their manufactures for the year amounted to over then $200,000.

D. Booths foundry and machine shop, corner of 9th and Clay streets has increased in capacity during the last season. Capital invested $10,000. Employment is given to five hands. Manufactures for the year about $10,000.

Boiler Works
Wm. Marshall has a large establishment for the manufacture of boilers, tanks, stacks, and all kinds of heavy sheet iron and metal work opposite Messrs. Rouse & Dean’s shops Capital of $5,000 invested in the business and has manufactured during the year between $10,000 and $12,000 worth of work.

Brass Founders
McGhie Bros. foundry and shop corner of Clay and 9th. Capital investment $5,000, value of manufactures for the year, about $10,000. Their establishment has scarcely been in operation one year.

Dubuque manufacturing Company
Situated on Washington and Tenth Streets, was formerly owned by D. S. Cummings. A little over a year ago the stock company bought out the establishment. The specialty of the company is manufacturing of threshing machines and other agricultural machine implements. The manufactures this year consisted in part of fifty threshing machines and the total amount value of their work amounted to $50,000. The company offered employment to 35 hands. The paid up capital of the company is $12,000.

Pail and Tub Factory
Clark & Cowles, manufactures of lumber and wooden ware on Seventh Street extension. The value of their manufactures for the year amounted to $40,000.

Cabinet Manufactures
There are four principal manufactures in this line and represent an aggregate capital of $92,000 and employ 77 men: Herancourt & Woodward, Dubuque Cabinet Makers Association, Stevens & Hooper and Hamlin & Wagner. Their aggregate manufactures for the year were $150,000.

Wagon Manufactures
There are fifteen carriage and wagon establishments in the city, four of them very extensive, viz: A. Cooper, North Western Carriage and Wagon Manufactory, Thos. Connolly, J. Trudell, T. Armstrong, A. Roberts, Bradley Bros., Brommenshenkel & Co., M. Brown, G. Koch, E. Paill, A. Thielan, W. Randolph, J. G. Wunderlich and H. Young. These manufactures give employment to 300 men. The aggregate capital employed in the establishments named is $204,000.

Soap and Candle Factory
Messrs. Plaine & Beach. They employ some six to eight men, have a capital invested of $40,000.

Breweries
There are nine breweries in the city, several of them of immense capacity. They are those of A. Heeb, C. Scherr, Northern Brewery, Peaslee & Co., H. Fockler, Tschirgi & Schwind, Glabb & Co., F. Kempf, and Brewers Association. The aggregate capital is $560,000 and value of manufactures $850,000.

Northwestern Metal Stamping Company
This company’s works were burned on Christmas morning, but already they are preparing to go to work again. The paid in capital of the company is $30,000; the authorized capital is $50,000. The capacity of the Company’s factory is to manufacture $200,000 per annum.

Woolen Mill
Enterprise of Duncan, Geiger & Co., situated on Main, between First and Jones Streets. Capital invested, $15,000. Manufacture for the year $10,000, employs 15 hands.

Flouring Mills
There are three flour mills, Clay Mills, Rockdale Mills and Home Mills. Aggregate capital $90,000. Manufacture for the year is valued at $160,000.

Window Shades
Duncan & Co., factory on Fourth Street. Capital invested $3,000. Value of manufactures is $6,500. Employs six hands.

Tobacco Factory
Armington, Myers & Co., their factory is located on White Street. Capital invested is $15,000. Value of manufactures is $28,000.

Planing & Saw Mills
There are eight different mills of this character-Carr & Austin’s, Patch & Wait’s, (J. L. Dickinson), Clark & Cowles’, Pelan & Randall’s, E. R. Lumbert’s, Dubuque Lumber Co’s., Clark & Scott, H. Lembeck’s, E. R. Lumbert’s, and Peterson & Co. (burned). The capital invested in these mills amounts $190,000, and the manufactures for the year is $231,000. They give employment to 145 men.

Cooperage
Extensive branch of business in Dubuque, some twenty or thirty different shops being engaged in making barrels. Most of them are small, and confess to keeping no records and are fearful of the U. S. Collectors or County Assessor. The most extensive shops are those of M. J. Drasda, Pringle & Atherton, J. Plapp and Henry Loutiff. Capital invested $40,000, value of manufactures of the year $53,000. Number of men employed twenty-five.

Marble Yards
James & Brother and Oliver & Craggin are the proprietors of the only marble yards in the city, located on 8th Streets and Locust and on Iowa and 9th Street. The aggregate invested is $15,000, and the totals manufactures for the year is $28,000. They employ eighteen me.

Brick Manufactory’s
There are eight yards in the city that manufacture 6,500,000 bricks at a total value of over $50,000

Lead
There has been more success in the mines this year then has been met with for some time. There are several good prospects just discovered and the prospects for raising mineral during the winter indicates that a large amount will be secured.

The amount smelted this year by the smelters, J. Brunskill, Coates & Waters and Fern & Simpson, amounts to 55,000 pigs, worth $357,000.


 

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