April 14,1854 HTBumpur to John Benjamin

Fabius, April 14, 1854

Mr. Benjamin,

Dear Sir, your __ directed to me has come to hand and I will answer your questions.  The size of my ware room is ___.   My workshop is 22 x 30 attached to my ware room.  I have neither steam nor water power.  It is not encumbered.  It can be bought for one half down, the other half can be paid in yearly payments.  The establishment can be had with lumber store but he cost on one for seven hundred dollars.  Buy my mahogany & __ __ cherry worth from 19 to 25 dollars; maple from $9 to $20.  We use no white wood but use basswood in its stead; can buy it from $5 to $10; birch $8 to $15 without labour.

20 miles south of Syracuse.  Can come to Syracuse from New York by railroad and then to Fabius by stage.  There is railroad building from Syracuse to Binghamton come within three miles and abought [sic] the same distance from Fabius.  The cabinet and chair business is worth about $2,000 dollars.  I am now carrying on the business. If I sell I will bind myself not to interfere with it.  The kind of work I manufacture is for the farming community which is so far as card tables, bureaus, table stands, bedsteads of various kinds & chairs I buy in Troy.  There is abought [sic] five hundred of a thousand inhabitants in Fabius.

Yours,

HT Bumpur