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.

ITS ADVANTAGES FOR MANUEFATURING, 95
their own vinegar from malt and high- keep about fifteen hands employed, and
wines. their annual sales amount to about $25,The machinery and apparatus they put 000, principally jobbing. Near the old
up last year was thought, at the time, to depot of the T., W. & W. Railway.
be sufficient for the next five years, but PLOW MANUFACTURING.
they are now increasing it to ten times JOHN URLER has been in Springfield
the capacity. They have twenty men since 1839. Being a blacksmith, he has
employed on the farm now, and when the done general jobbing and manufactured
time comes for gathering and manufac- some plows almost every year. Mr.
turing, it will give employment to a Uhlerhas not made more than three or
much larger number. four hundred plows annually at any time,
This business is in its infancy, but, and is not now making more than two
without doubt, it will grow to much or three hundred per year.
larger proportions. I have been thus
ROPE AND CORDAGE MIANUFACTORIES.
particular in describing it because there
JACOB SCHILLING has been manufactuare hundreds of other industries out of
ring rope in this city for over twentywhich large and lucrative establishments
Z5 --- UUILLLIV three years, at his manufactory, in the
might be built up; and there is no place. H
west part of the city. He makes cordwhere it can be done to better advanage, rope and sash cord, and manufactage than in Springfield, where water
Ctage than in Springfield, where'water tures about 30,000 pounds per year. Mr.
and fuel abound, railroad facilities are
Schilling uses New Zealand, Sicilian and
so abundant and increasing, and in so
rich a farming country from which to from Spain, in the manufacture of rope
from Spain, in the manufacture of rope
draw supplies and find a market for and cordage.
many of the articles manufactured.
many of the articles manufactured. Another small manufactory is carried
ORNAIMENTAL CARVING. on near Messrs. Starne & Shutt's coal
WILLIAM HELMLE is an ornamental shaft, northwest of the city.
carver in wood. He does the carving of SICKLE BEaTIONS.
caps for columns and pilasters, for cor- JOHN SHAW, is the inventor and mannices and all other work in his line of ufacturer of a new kind of Sickle Sec.
business, for both public and private tion. These sections are serrated, that
buildings. is, they are cut similar to an old fashPLANING MILLS, On DOOB, SASH AND BLIND ioned sickle, or reap hook. They are
MANUFACTORIES. warranted to cut equally well in grain
HOPPING & RIDGELY erected. a large, or grass.
well arranged building, during the sum- Farmers who have used them, say they
mer of 1866. and fitted it up with pla- will run four or five times as long withners and all other machinery pertaining out grinding, as those most generally in
to a first class planing mill, at a total use. All can appreciate the value of
cost, for building and machinery, of time thus saved.
$40,000. The work turned out from this MR. SHAW will be recognized, by
factory is equal to that from any similar many as the file cutter, who has hisshop
establishment in the State. They em- near Hopping & Ridgely's planing mill,
ploy from forty to fifty hands, and the but for the benefit of those at a distance,
monthly pay roll is about $1,500. Their I would say that' his address is John
annual sales amount to about $60,000. Shaw, P. O. Box 1226, Springfield Ill.
Near Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. SOAP AND CANDLE FACTORY.
THOMPSON & NEWMAN put their plan- G. A. VANDUYN & CO., erected a facing mill in operation in 1866, also. They tory in 1860, for making soap and can