. History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . y three men now engaged in that business on the line ofthe Wabash railway who were in business when he commenced. TheGlobe mill is 40x80, and stands near the North Fork in the west-ern part of town. It was built by G. W. Knight in 1870. Smith & J)ANVILLE TOWNSHIP. 315 Giddings run it on custom and merchant work. It lias four run ofstone, and has the patent
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. History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . y three men now engaged in that business on the line ofthe Wabash railway who were in business when he commenced. TheGlobe mill is 40x80, and stands near the North Fork in the west-ern part of town. It was built by G. W. Knight in 1870. Smith & J)ANVILLE TOWNSHIP. 315 Giddings run it on custom and merchant work. It lias four run ofstone, and has the patent process machinery. The City mill, onVermilion street, opposite the jail, was built by Samuel Bowers in1875; frame; is sixty feet front on Vermilion street and fifty-five onSouth ; cost $20, 000. It has four run, and is supplied with all the ap-pliances for a first-class merchant mill. It has a working capacityof five barrels per hour. The old Bushong distillery, in the east-ern part of town, began operations in 1859. With the coming ofarmed rebellion, the stern necessities of the government called fora tax on whisky, commencing at fifty cents per gallon and increas-ing till it reached two dollars. This last tax made and destroyed. AM HE IS MHJi. vast fortunes. The men who were in the secret of the proposedadvance made large sums by laying in large stocks, for it was decidednot to increase the tax on that which was on hand ; others evaded thetax, so that while the tax was $2, whisky was selling on the market forfrom $1.90 down to $1.75 per gallon. Mr. Bushong was running fromeighty to one hundred barrels per day, and had about one hundredhead of cattle feeding, and all the hogs he could get. When the taxwas raised to the highest point he discontinued business. The ma-chinery was taken to Chicago, where they had a process of making $2whisky and selling at $1.75, and the building was made into a millwith two run of stones. As now standing, the business amountsto twenty-two runs, a