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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 231
found impossible to separate the figures as to these classes. It may be
said, however, that skilled workmen in Sandusky are able to command
from $3 to $5 per day, and common labor is as well paid as in the larger
cities of the neighborhood, while the wages of women workers, as a rule,
are better than in the larger cities.
THE BREWERIES
There is no man more familiar Avith the brewing business in this city
than John G. Strobel, Avith the exception that he does not remember the
building where the Phoenix Brewery of C. S. Ifiggins, as first advertised
by the Clarion, to have been located April 24, 1851, on lot 1, Water
Street.
The folloAving statement is by him:"" '' The first breAvery in the city
Avas the Phoenix brewery, which is now used by John G. Dorn as a wine
cellar. The next brewery Avas the brewery of Winson & Fox which was
established in 1849 at the foot' of Harrison street and later became
llg's brewery until 1864 when it' was conducted by Sorgel, Dorn &
Raible until 1871 when it was purchased by Strobel and Ilg, and later
by Jig & Co. AVIIO conducted it until it ceased business in the 80's."
The directory of 1873 SIIOAVS George Baier conducting a brewery on
the south side of Jefferson Street, betAveen Putnam and Harrison. This
AVIIS a small breAvery which later ceased doing business. At this time
Winson & Fox conducted the Bay City Brewery, where Frank Stang
later conducted a brewery.
Kuebeler & Co. then conducted a breAvery at the same location as at
present.
The directory of 1874 mentions Nicholas Wagner as having a brewery,
but AVIIO he was or AA'here the breAvery Avas located is not knoAvn at present.
On March 8, 1896, the Kuebeler and Stang breweries consolidated as
the Kuebeler-Stang BreAving Co. On January 1, 1898, the Kuebeler-
Stang BreAving Co. became part of the Cleveland & Sandusky BreAving
Co., and both of the breAveries are still operated by the Cleveland &
Sandusky BreAving Co. under the management of John Stang as the local
vice president.
On January 1, 1883, the Register states that there Avere at that time
321 saloons in the county and 244 in the city, AA'hich, Avith 16,000 population,
gave a saloon to every sixty-five of the population.
There has been for many years a small breAA'ery at Milan, originally
conducted by John Scholl.
In 1914 the Joseph Herb BreAving Co. was organized.
FISHING INDUSTRY
From its earliest beginnings, Sandusky has been the center of the
fresh Avater fish supply of the country. It has been the largest and
most important source of this necessity of life.
For many years fishing Avas regarded as the city's principal industry
and the product of the nets spread in every direction from this port Avas