The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . unted to eightthousand barrels; in 1871 to thirty-four thousandbarrels, and in 1S75 to sixty-five riiousand buys yearly about one hundred and seventy-fivethousand bushels of barley; one hundred and fiftythousand pounds of hops, and pays a revenue offrom sixty thousand to seventy thousand dollars,and taxes on his property of over seven thousanddollars. He has added to his establishment as his businesshas increased, and now his vaults and ice-cellarshave a capacity of over t
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . unted to eightthousand barrels; in 1871 to thirty-four thousandbarrels, and in 1S75 to sixty-five riiousand buys yearly about one hundred and seventy-fivethousand bushels of barley; one hundred and fiftythousand pounds of hops, and pays a revenue offrom sixty thousand to seventy thousand dollars,and taxes on his property of over seven thousanddollars. He has added to his establishment as his businesshas increased, and now his vaults and ice-cellarshave a capacity of over twenty thousand are established in New York city, Chicago,Danville, Illinois, St. Paul, Muskegon, Michigan,and Racine, Wisconsin; while the amount of capitalemployed is six hundred thousand dollars, furnish-ing employment for one hundred and twenty-fourmen and fifty-two horses. Although Mr. Blatz hasmet with success in his enterprise, he has by nomeans been free from misfortune. The brick build-ing which he erected in 1858 he continued to en-large from year to year until 1873, wlien all his. e^ ^V^(^^
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