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Title: Industrial history of Milwaukee, the commercial, manufacturing and railway metropolis of the North-west : its great natural resources and advantageous location as a shipping point, with a review of its general business interests, including history of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, statistical and descriptive, to which is added a series of sketches of the prominent places and people of the Cream City, the rise and progress of firms, institutions, and corporations
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: Milwaukee : E.E. Barton
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isamong the largest in the United States. About 1,000 men are employed in the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds,and the annual out-put of the Milwaukee factories is valued at a million dollars.The furniture factories employ 800 men and produce nearly $1,000,000 worth offurniture in the course of a year. Recently the demand for parlor frames andother fine furniture manufactured in this city has very largely increased, and thesegoods are now sold by Milwaukee manufacturers as far east as New York, Car-riages and wagons made in Milwaukee are sold as far south as Texas and as farwest as California. There are upward of 40 cooperage establishments in the city,and the annual products of the cooperage industry here are worth in excess ofthree quarters of a million dollars. The distilleries of Milwaukee produced 21,036 barrels of highwines in 1884,valued at $967,656—nearly a round niiUion. Vinegar distillation has also attainedimportant proportions in this city within the past few years.
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Residence of Valentin Blatz. 64 IND USTRIAL HISTOR Y OF MIL WA UKEE. There are i,ooo cigarmakers in Milwaukee, and 300 men and boys areengaged in the manufacture of chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff. Thevalue of Milwaukees tobacco products is about $2,000,000 per annum. A large factory of sewing machines was established in Milwaukee in 1881.It is doing a flourishing business. The manufacture of glass, also recently intro-duced here, has rapidly attained important proportions. Window glass and bottlesare made in large quantities, and preparations for the manufacture of art glasshave just been completed. MILWAUKEE CEMENT. On the east bank of the Milwaukee river, a short distance north of the city,are the quarry and works of the Milwaukee Cement Company. The works arethe largest under one superintendence in the United States, and the cement is of aquality as perfect as first-class machinery and business skill can make it. The nat-ural deposit of rock from which the cement is manufact

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