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 . t is a large five-storybuilding, fitted up with machinery ofthe latest designs for the manufacture oftrunks. The goods turned out b
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 . t is a large five-storybuilding, fitted up with machinery ofthe latest designs for the manufacture oftrunks. The goods turned out by thisfirm are first-class in every respect and,havmg many valuable patents on trunkbottoms, cross strips, bolt and cornerhinges, their goods are much sought alterby the trade. A branch office has beenestablished at No. 240 East Madisonstreet, Chicago. able iron castings for plows, harvestingmachinery, wagons and railroad their castings are made exclusively bythe air-furnace process, which is greatlysuperior to the old method. The plantof this company is located in the Me-nomonee valley—on Park street, be-tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth large factory is represented in thecut below, and covers an area of 150x350feet. All the latest machinery is in useand is run by a large Corliss engine of 50horse-power. They employ upwards of150 men. Their facilities for supplyingthe trade are surpassed by none. Aspur of the Chicago, Milwaukee &. NORTHWESTERN MALLE-ABLE IRON CO., Manufacturers of Malleable IronCastings, Park Street, between 13th. and14th Avenues. AMONG the active and flourishingenterprises of our city there arenone whose prospects are more flatteringthan those of the Northwestern Malle-able Iron Company. They begun busi-ness in 1882, and so rapidly has it in-creased that to-day their trade extendsthroughout the States of Michigan, Wis-consin, Minnesota, Iowa, IlHnois, Indi-ana, Ohio, Missouri and Oregon. Theyare manufacturers of all forms of malle- St. P
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