History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.

92 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, AND
GRAIN AND GRAIN ELEVATOR. The elevator firm receives and ships about
Messrs. POST & EASTMAN commenced one quarter of a million bushels of wheat
building a grain elevator, near the depot annually. The five mills buy and manuof the Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, facture an average of 50,000 bushels each,
in the spring of 1865, and completed it besides one or two outside parties, who
in January, 1866. It is sixty feet wide, buy and ship on a small scale, making a
seventy feet long, and one hundred and total of about half a million bushels of
ten feet high. The first seventy-five feet wheat received at this market, annually.
from the ground is iron clad, as a protec- The quantity of corn and oats received
tion against fire. The whole building is here amounts, in the aggregate, to about
erected in the most solid and substantial half a million bushels also. About 75,000
manner, and cost $62,000. The elevator bushels of barley are used in the breweris constructed with bins capable of hold- ies in Springfield, and in addition to this
ing 120,000 bushels of grain. In addi- the grain dealers buy and ship barley
tion to this there are corn cribs belonging also. The total quantity of grain of all
to the proprietors, and on the same lots, kinds received at the Springfield market,
with capacity for about 30,000 bushels. is about one and a quarter millions of
A steam engine runs the hoisting ma- bushels annually.
chinery, and with everything in order The elevator is now owned by Eastman
they can receive and ship from eight to & Co.-Col. John Williams having taken
ten thousand bushels of grain, per day. the place of Mr. Post October 10, 1870.
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS,
All of the ten or twelve stove and tin I might go over a great many more
ware dealers in the city have more or branches of business, in detail, with the
less work done in tin, copper and sheet same result; but the best way to show
iron; but none of them are entitled to what the vacancies are and what there is
the dignity of being called a manufac- not, is to show what there is. The foltory, because there is not a stove foundery lowing firms and companies comprise all
in the place. there is in the way of manufactories in
There is a considerable number of men Springfield.
engaged in making boots and shoes, but BOILER MAKERS.
each man has his own kit of tools, which, WILSON 6; DRAKE have a boiler shop,
he could pack and march at a minute's here and at Decatur. Mr. Drake resides
notice; there is consequently nothing
notice; there is consequently nothing here, and has been running this shop for
like a manufactory in this line of busi- six years. They do repairing of all kinds
six years. They do repairing of all kinds
ness. and make boilers to order.
Of all the eight or ten furniture dealers, the principal portion of them have CARRIAGE AND WAGON MANUFACTORY.
some work made about their places of A. BOOTH, SON & Co. The senior membusiness; but as there is no machinery ber of this firm commenced business about
used, and no propelling power except seven miles north of Springfield, in the
human muscles, the only appropriate lan- year 1840. In 1854 he removed his esguage is to say, there is no furniture fac- tablishment to Springfield, where the
tory in the city. business has increased steadily to the