State-Wide County, NC - John T. Dodson Notice to Mill Owners, 1846

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                      Important To Mill Owners

                   Hotchkiss' Vertical Water Wheel

THE subscriber having procurred the exclusive right of making and using
Hotchkiss' Vertical Water Wheel, in the counties of Orange, Caswell,
Rockingham and Guilford, takes this method of informing Mill owners that
he is at all times ready to fix their Mills on this new and improved
plan at short notice, which will so improve the power and motion of their
Mills so as to perform double the work with the same quantity of water
that is usually applied to the common flutterwheel and equally simple
in its construction and more durable than the common flutterwheels.

The advantages of this wheel are, that it is solid Cast Iron and will
last 50 years, runs without obstruction in back water to the depth of
from three to five feet, in proportion to the head of water ; free from
the effects of ice and not liable to have the Bucketts knocked out by 
chunks, &c, and doubling the quantity of Sawing. Suffice it to say that
the wheel gives entire satisfaction to all those who have it in use and
there are more than 100 in use in North Carolina.

I shall hold Mill owners or other persons who use this plan without my
written permission responsible for twice the amount of patent fee, which
is $50 per mill.
                                         John T. Dodson
Danville, Va. March 23, 1846

                               Reference

James T. Morehead                  |
Ex-Gov'r John M. Morehead          | Greensboro, NC
Dr. John A. Foulkes, Guilford, NC  |

Wm. Russell
Rich'd Yarbrough, Caswell, NC
Peter Cardwell, Rockingham

Communications may be addressed to the subscriber at Danville, Va

Source:
NC Archives
Bladen County Miscellaneous Records
1761-1958
CR.011.928.7
Folder "Mills, Advertisement"

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