Figure 39. — View of Niles & Co. Note the locomotive works in the 

 upper right corner. (From the 1853 Cincirviati Business Directory.) 



Woodward and Franklin Streets, several squares north of the canal. 

 By 1 842 the firm had become Niles & Company and remained in its 

 original location until 1845.1^° 



At this time, 1 845-1 846, the Niles brothers bought out the sugar- 

 mill manufacturing business of William Tift, whose shop was located 

 on Third Street between Sycamore and Broadway. The manufac- 

 ture of sugar mills was to become one of their most profitable lines 

 of work, as it was for several other Cincinnati shops. In 1 847 they 

 were reported to have orders for 40 mills costing about S7,ooo 

 each,'*' in 1851 orders for 70 were on hand.'*- 



'^"^ Hanks had withdrawn from the firm shortly before to form the new partner- 

 ship of Hanks & McGraw, Bell Founders. 



'*' Cincinnati Commercial, July 5, 1847. 



'*- A handsome set of mechanical drawings for a Xiles mill can be found in 

 GusTAVUS WiESSENBORN, American Engimrring (New York, 1861) pi. 32. The Ford 

 Museum has Niles mill in its collection. 



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