The Dunleith Nail Factory-1875

VAUGHN, GRANT

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Date: 2/10/2018 at 16:57:00

Dubuque Daily Times, Thursday, June 17, 1875, Dubuque, Iowa, Page: 4

The Dunleith Nail Factory

When Dubuque failed to get the nail factory she failed to get a good thing, to ues a passing phrase. The projectors of this enterprise, having chosen Dunleith as the field of operation, are now at work putting up a building 34 x 60 feet and three stories high, and expect to get to work by the first of August. They will start out with a working force of twenty men. The largest engine, which is now in Dunleith, is of 140 horse power, and they will use two rolls of two tons each, and will turn out each week, from day shift 225 kegs, and from the night shift 175, making a total of 400 kegs power week. They will make a specialty of wrought and clinch nails. Their furnace will melt 8 tons of iron at a heat. The iron for the nails will be mostly scrap iron of which there is an abundance material in this vicinity, coming from the different railroad shops, the iron foundries, and from other sources. At least for a long time little iron will have to be shipped in from aboard. The factory will be the one of its kind in this western country, and will undoubtedly have a successful career, being near to the field of a large western demand. The capacity of such a shop will be more than taxed to its utmost trade of this city, and there is no reason, with everything in favor of the establishment, why it should not be profitable and return large profits to its enterprising projectors, Messrs. Grant, Vaughn & Co. These gentlemen seem to be business men of the right stamp, and to understand thoroughly what they are about. The establishment of such a mill in the west has long been under consideration by these gentlemen and they are fixing themselves to stay.