Identifier: industriesofloui00elst (find matches)
Title: The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: (Elstner, Charles E.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Louisville, Ky., J. M. Elstner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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capacity, respectively. All grades of flour are manufactured by these mills,together with immense quantities of Graham flour, cracked wheat, feed, etc. They em-ploy a force of fourteen men and produce $165,000 worth of breadstufts and feed perannum, nearly one-half of which is disposed of in the Louisville market, heavy shipmentsbeing made to Georgia and Florida, and New Albany and vicinity consuming the re-mainder. The firm bei^an operntions in the A or Main-street mill, erected in 1854, but metwith such success that a year later they purchased, refitteil and started the B mill onState street. Their leading brand-, all of which are excellent and very popular, areManna, Patent, -Tuberose, Snxwdrop, Silver Leaf and Southern. The firm is ccMuposed of enterprising men, .Mr. .1. M. Hains being president of theNew Albanv National Bank. THE IJfDUSTRIES OF LOUISVILLE
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AND OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA. 239 OHIO FALLS IRON WORKS. W C. DePauw, President; P. R. Stoy, Vice-Presiden and Treasurer; John McCullough—Manufacturers ofMerchant, Bar and Bridje Iron, Locomotive, Car, Wagon, Plow and Other Dimension Irons. This £;reat iiidustry had its inception in 18(j7, with the same eminentbiisincssmcn whonow control it, and whose names are given above. Of them, it is onlj- necessary to say thatMr. DePauw is the same who made the American PhUe Glass Works a success in the faceof discouragements that would have crushed an ordinary man ; that Mr. P» ter E. Stoy isone of New Albanys oldest and most substantial citizens, who for forty-five years hasconducted the leading hardware house here; and that ^Ir. McCullough is a progressivefarmer and capitalist of enterprise and sagacity. The company as it now stands was incorporated in the same year noted—1867—witha paid-up capital of $200,00C. The works are among the largest in the West, covering260x400 feet of ground,

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