HERE
IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY IT IS A GOOD IDEA TOO TEACH OTHERS ABOUT
THINGS TO LOOK FOR. MY OLDER BROTHER WHILE FIXING MY MOTHERS FOUNDATION
RIGHT HERE IN GALWAY, CALLS ME AT WORK AND TELLS ME HE HAS HIT ASH AND A
BOTTLE. I ASKED HIM TO STOP AND THAT WEEKEND WENT UP AND HAD A LOOK
...IT WAS A PRIVY, STONE LINED RIGHT BEHIND MY MOMS HOUSE !!! SWEET. . I DUG IT AND PULLED OUT ABOUT 30
BOTTLES ALL WHOLE BUT A CLARK & WHITE "C" FROM SARATOGA. I DID TAKE
HOME A RARE G.O. BLAKES WHISKEY,GEYSER SPOUTING SPRINGS QUART,MOXIE
NERVE FOOD,T.FITZGERALD UNHEARD OF VARIANT HUTCH,ANOTHER
UNSEEN VARIANT G. JONES FONDA HUTCH WITH MATTHEWS GRAVITATING STOPPER IN
TACK,A VERY DARK HOSTETTERS BITTERS, WHITES PULY MED,SARATOGA LINCOLN
SPRINGS IN A DIFFERENT VARIANT THAN NORMAL. ALSO ABOUT 25 WHISKEYS AND
THREE PART MOLD OLIVE GREEN BEERS. THE PRIVY WAS STONED LINED AND
MEASURED 6 FT LONG BY 4 FT WIDE AND 4 FT DEEP. NOT A LARGE PRIVY BY ANY
STRETCH BUT WHAT DID COME OUT WAS PRETTY GOOD,SO NOW I WANT TO DO MORE
AND BIGGER PITS.
GEORGE O. BLAKE'S BOURBON CO. KY. WHISKY (ENGLISH SPELLING) STEWART MILLER CO.
George
O. Blake was a junior partner in the J.H. Cutter Company from 1866 to
1871, He was in charge of supervising he rectifying and quality control
operations. In 1871 he decided to establish his own brand. The new firm
would include as partners G.R. Miller, and S.G. Stewart. The
Pond-Reynold Company, established in 1868, was chosen to distribute the
new whiskey from San Francisco. The Adams-Booth Company of Boston would
handle the distribution from Boston and Louisville. The Adams-Booth
Company would buy out the partners in 1876. Edward B. Pond of the
Reynolds-Pond wholesale liquor house sold his interest to Samuel More in
1875 , who had been a junior partner. Edward Pond would become involved
in the banking business and later serve as mayor of San Francisco. ?Spirits
Bottles of the Old West.? Written by Bill and Betty Wilson, the volume
is a font of information about the early American distilling industry.
There the G.O. Blake mysteries are cleared up. According
to the Wilsons, from 1866 to 1871 George O. Blake was a junior partner
in the J. H. Cutter firm in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. His job was to
select good bourbon from distillers and oversee the ?rectifying,? or
mixing of raw spirits, to control the quality of Cutter Whiskey. As a
result of his work for Cutter, Blake became a well-known and respected
broker on Whiskey Row -- the trade hub of the American industry located
in Louisville. In 1871 Blake decided to
establish a brand in his own name. He formed a partnership with two
wholesale druggists in Louisville and the Adams, Taylor Company in
Boston to distribute the brand; the former to the Midwest and West, the
latter to the East Coast. A third firm was selected in San Francisco to
merchandise Blake?s whiskey in states bordering the Pacific. G.O.
Blake whiskey did well all over the country, possibly as a result of
advertising campaigns. In 1876, the Adams, Taylor Co. -- doubtless
sensing the profits to be made -- bought out the brand ? bottle, crate
and barrel? from the others participants, including George Blake, who
subsequently disappeared into obscurity, Adams, Taylor, never
distillers, continued to rectify Blake whiskey in Louisville,
distributing it from there and from Boston.
COPYWRITE~Jack Sullivan
