Three cities and their industrial interests, with an historical and descriptive sketch of the national armory and arsenal, the location, manufacturing facilities, and business advantages of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline, and Milan, Illinois--their commerce, population, schools, churches, and present condition . The name means superiority of workmanship and design; it signifies merit, and isaccepted as such everywhere. ITS INTERESTS AND INDUSTRIES. 69 BARNARD & LEAS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. From an insignificant beginning in 1860, in a amall two-story frame building, theBarnard & Leas
Three cities and their industrial interests, with an historical and descriptive sketch of the national armory and arsenal, the location, manufacturing facilities, and business advantages of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline, and Milan, Illinois--their commerce, population, schools, churches, and present condition . The name means superiority of workmanship and design; it signifies merit, and isaccepted as such everywhere. ITS INTERESTS AND INDUSTRIES. 69 BARNARD & LEAS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. From an insignificant beginning in 1860, in a amall two-story frame building, theBarnard & Leas Manufacturing Company has developed into the largest manufac-turing house of its kind in the country. They have followed enlargements withadditions until the shops now cover nearly a block and a half, and furnish about twoacres of lioor-room. On visiting these shops the stranger is suddenly convinced thathe is inside a vast bee-hive of industry. Machine departments, foundries, paint-shops, and wood-working floors all unite to tell the story of well-directed hundred employes, mostly skilled mechanics, have tbeir places. At the start,only one machine was made — a smutter and separator. To-day the Barnard & LeasManufacturing Company are prepared to furnish throughout the largest llouring-mill. THE BARNARD i MANUFACTURING COMPANYS SHOPS. with their famous separators, smutt^rs, scourers, corn-shellers, cleaners, packers,purifiers, reels, and rollers. Mr. Barnard is the inventor of several of these machines— the bestof their kind—and they are made exclusively by his firm. As one item ofthe past years business, it may be said that this house has built and equipped overone hundred flouring mills and elevators. Their agents in London, England, RioJaneiro, South America, and other foreign countries annually call for carloads oftheir machines. The business of 1887 amounted to nearly half a million dollars. MOLINE PIPE-ORGAN COMPANY. The observing reader has by this
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