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Union Mills
| Firmenname | Union Mills |
| Ortssitz | New York (N.Y.) |
| Straße | Cherry Street 454 |
| Anmerkungen | Eigentümer: John Backus |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 265] |
| Hinweise | Importer, Manufacturer and Dealer in Mineral Goods; Minerals of all kinds ground to order |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1866 |
Gründung |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The Union Mills in Cherry Street, of which Mr. John Backus is the esteemed proprietor, are of those beneficial institutions which indicate that no matter what branch of trade and commerce is referred to, New York is well rep- resented in its particular line. Mr. Backus is the leading importer, manufacturer and dealer in mineral goods in the metropolis, and has developed a large and permanent trade with the leading consumers throughout the country. He founded the business eighteen years ago, and has since carried it on in a thoroughly energetic and successful manner. His mills comprise a fine four-story building, No. 454 Cherry Street, twenty-five feet by two hundred in dimensions, and which possesses the finest and most powerful of pulverizing and grinding machinery, driven by an eighty horse-power engine; and he also utilizes an adjoining twenty-five foot lot for storage purposes. The establishment possesses every facility and all modern appliances for the satisfactory preparation of mineral goods, and for the shipping of the same. Mr. Backus imports, manufactures and deals in a complete line of these goods, as follows: marble dust, manganese, carbonate of lime, fluor spar, feld spar, emery, crocus, tripoli, silex, brick dust, blue grit (polish), oxalic acid, putty, powder, grit, scotch hone, ground glass, soap stone, white talc, mineral white, terra alba, asbestos, fibre white, barytes, black lead, plaster paris, flint for sand-paper, pumice stone, both in selected lump and ground and bolted, rotten stone in selected lump, ground and bolted, and burnt and bolted, etc., etc. Minerals of all kinds are promptly ground to order, and drugs, roots, herbs, etc., crushed and pulverized. Everything appertaining to this important branch of business is thoroughly understood by Mr. Backus, who has well earned the highest of reputations throughout the trade. He gives steady employment to an average force of from fifteen to twenty hands, and in addition to his extensive city trade ships largely to all parts of the United States, also exporting various specialties to Canada and Australia. Personally, Mr. Backus is one of the most popular and respected members of the mercantile community, and well merits the large measure of success which has rewarded his intelligent enterprise in this important channel of industry and trade. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 265] |
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