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Lee county gazetteer : containing a historical and descriptive sketch of the county, and sketches of the several townships, together with city directories of Keokuk and Fort Madison, and a complete business register, 1868
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111 Lawyers, 1 Marble Works, 5 Meat Markets, 6 Merchant Tailors, 2 Musical Instrument dealers, 2 Milliners, 2 Packers Pork, 2 Paint Shops, 2 Photographers, 6 Physicians, 3 Planing Mills, 2 Plow Manufacturers, 1 Rope maker, 3 Saddle and Harness Shops, 9 Saloons, 4 Sash, Door and Blind Factories, 3 Saw Mills, 3 Shingle Mills, 4 Stove and Tinware dealers, 1 Tannery, 12 Vineyards, 2 Vinegar Manufacturers, 6 Wagon makers, 2 Watch, Clock and Jewelry dealers, 4 Wine and Liquor dealers, 1 Woolen Mill.
3The future development of Fort Madison is undoubtedly vested in its manufacturing facilities. The location is good, and the area of country surrounding it affords consumers for every article of manufacture, and the cost of production is very small in comparison to that of some other cities and localities. As the wealth and progress of all cities depend in a great measure upon their manufacturers, we are pleased to find so many of the various kinds located here. It certainly shows a spirit of enterprise, and we learn that those that have been in operation have been very successful and largely remunerative, and it is believed that a paper mill and oil mill, and another woolen mill, also an iron foundry, would prove to be safe and profitable investments. We have been enabled to gather some items of the different manufacturing establishments here, but our space precludes us from noticing them at length.
5MANUFACTURERS.
7MORRISON'S STEEL PLOW WORKS.—They were built in 1864, but the size being insufficient for its demands, the proprietors, Messrs. Morrison & Sons, have just erected a large two-story building in front of the previous one, giving them a building 115 feet long by 50 feet wide, besides their two warerooms, one 60×20, three stories high, and the other 30×70. It would be useless for us to speak of the qualities or excellency of the Plows that are manufactured by this establishment, as the many premiums that have heretofore been awarded them by the different fairs throughout the country is sufficient as to their superiority. The advantages which they claim for their Plows is, that of their lightness of draft and the peculiar process of tempering of the steel, which is only known to themselves. With their increased facilities, they will be able to turn out annually five thousand Plows. These bringing them in on an average twenty dollars, would make one hundred thousand dollars in the course of the year. This speaks well for their enterprise.
9AMERICAN MILLS.—Built 1852, four stories high, brick, 60 by 60, three run of stone, capacity two hundred barrels per day, 84-horse power engine; also, a warehouse 30 by 76, two-stories high, brick.
11FORT MADISON MILLS.—Peters & Bernhard, proprietors, built in 1867, three stories high, 56 by 45, three run of stone, capacity one hundred barrels per day, cost $15,000.
13The first flour mill was built in 1844, by Walter Hawxhurst, who run it
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