Identifier: ohiofuturegreats00coml (find matches)
Title: Ohio, the future great state, her manufacturers, and a history of her commercial cities, Cincinnati and Cleveland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Comley, William J D'Eggville, W
Subjects: Manufactures -- Ohio Cincinnati (Ohio) -- Description and travel Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Cincinnati, Comley bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r advantages in all the great departments of agriculture,commerce, and manufactures. Its water-power is large and very important, and isimproved to the uttermost, scarcely a drop of water passing its hydraulic without payingits passage by turning some of its numerous mill-wheels. For the production of agriculturalimplements alone there are ten different establishments, five of which make hay-rakes aspecialty, turning them out by tens of thousands, and distributing them to all quartersof the globe. There are eleven flouring-mills, mostly large, some of them turning outthree hundred barrels each day of the year. There are seventeen foundries andmachine-shops, five of which manufacture Turbine wheels, that have a world-widereputation; four linseed-oil mills, and two varnish manufactories; four large paper mills,and one of the most complete and extensive straw and tar board producing mills inthe country. The principal manufacturing establishment of Dayton, however, is the car works of 399
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THE BARNEY & SMITH MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A fine view of which we give, the most extensive and best managed establishment inthe West, if not in the whole country. The ground-floors alone of the several buildingscover four acres, and with the second, third, and fourth floors of some of them, eightacres. The buildings are very extensive, substantial, and well arranged for the conven-ient handling of the very large amount of material used, amounting to over 30,000 feetof lumber and forty tons of wrought and pig iron per day. In no way can we gain so dear a conception of the rapid increase in the manu-facturing interests of the State, as by tracing the history of some one establishment, in asingle branch of industry, from its inception to its present magnitude. In 1849 E. Thresher and E. E. Barney, under the firm name of E. Thresher &Co., began the erection of shops in Dayton, Ohio, for building railroad cars, on whatwould now be deemed a small scale, and with limited capital. Fro

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