THE REPUBLICAN

July 13, 1888

 

THE OLD EAGLE PLANING MILL

Many Improvements Being Made by the New Firm

 

            Messrs. Shearer & Jeffers have been making about $3,000 worth of improvements at their planing mill this season; when all completed they will have a mill and lumber yard as good as the best.  Last week they placed a new water wheel in their wheel pit which drives the planers and matchers with all the power necessary to do the best kind of work.  Another wheel has been put in that drives all the smaller machinery.  The planers are now supplied with hoods and fans to draw all the shavings and dust from the machine, which are conveyed through a long spout to a building several rods away.  New flumes, new foundations, and new line shafling have been put in.  All the buildings have been sided with new drop siding and painted with two coats of paint.  A new addition will soon be finished on the north of the main building, for work shop and drafting room.  The dwelling house is to be moved out to the east side of Mr. Shearer’s lots and the planning mill office will occupy a part of the foundation where the house stands. The enlargements to the lumber yards and planing mill business in this city shows that the city and surrounding towns are surely and steadily advancing to the front.