Ira Moore

                                      FROM WINFIELD TO BLACK HILLS.
                                        [TUNNEL MILLS. TUNNEL HILLS.]

Kansas 1875 Census, Winfield Township, Cowley County, March 1, 1875.
Name                           age sex color          Place/birth      Where from
I. E. Moore                  41    m    w       New York              Iowa
Lydia A. Moore           31     f     w            Wisconsin               Iowa
Note: The papers could not make up their minds what Ira Moore’s middle name or initial was. I left newspaper articles alone, although it appears that Ira E. Moore is the correct spelling. MAW
Winfield Courier, December 10, 1874.
Ira F. Moore, who owns the beautiful bluff immediately south of town, and across the Walnut, intends to lay it off in burial lots for a cemetery. It is a very delightful location, and will be very popular with our people.
Winfield Courier, December 17, 1874.
                                                   THE NEW CEMETERY.
In company with Mr. Ira C. Moore, we yesterday paid a visit to the new cemetery, situated just south of the Tunnel Mills. There we found our able county surveyor, W. W. Walton, busily engaged laying off the ground into lots. The plat contains about twelve acres, and is certainly one of the most beautiful spots, for a public burying ground, to be found in Cowley County. The plat is a beautiful design.
Winfield Courier, December 24, 1874.
Ira Moore offers to give a lot in his new cemetery to the first person who shall be buried therein. Now is your chance to get something gratis. You can only die once, remember, and you might just as well make something while you’re at it.
Winfield Courier, February 11, 1875.
Mr. Ira Moore, the owner of the Valley View Cemetery, has donated the city of Winfield a portion of said cemetery, to be used as a potters field.
[CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS: FEBRUARY 1, 1875.]
Winfield Courier, February 18, 1875..
                         [Note: Most of this item was illegible. Got only part of it.]

The cemetery committee made the following report, which on motion was adopted, and the committee disbanded. . . .  leave to submit the following report: During the past week we visited the cemetery north of the city, in company with a commit­tee from the cemetery association, and found two blocks well located and suited for the use of the city, which were offered by the committee from the cemetery association for the sum of $125 in city warrants and your committee was inclined to report favorably for purchasing the same for the use of the city. Since that time, however, the committee have been offered by Mr. Ira F. Moore, having charge of the cemetery grounds south of the city, the same amount of grounds in that cemetery, free of charge, and as a donation to the city; we would, therefore, in making this report as between the location of the two grounds, favor the one north of the city, but as regards the difference in the estimated value of the two grounds, would favor accepting the proposition offered the city from the cemetery south of the city.
                                  H. S. Silver, S. Darrah, R. B. Saffold, Committee.

On motion, a committee consisting of R. B. Saffold, H. S. Silver, and S. Darrah, was appointed to wait on Mr. Ira E. Moore and accept the donation to the city, of the cemetery grounds offered by him, and procure a deed to the city of Winfield, of the same.
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[CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS: FEBRUARY 15, 1875.]
Winfield Courier, March 11, 1875.
The committee on Cemetery reported that they had accepted the donation of Mr. I. E.  Moore of a lot in Valley View Cemetery, and presented the deed for the same. On motion the committee was discharged.
It was moved and carried that a committee of three be appointed to wait upon the Winfield Cemetery committee in regard to any proposition they may make with reference to their Cemetery. Saffold, Cochran, and Darrah were appointed on said committee.
Winfield Courier, June 17, 1875.
Ira E. Moore has invested in a herd of about fifty cows, and expects to start a dairy.
Winfield Courier, June 24, 1875.
Valley View Cemetery contains six new graves. Mr. Moore has nearly surrounded the grounds with shade trees.
Winfield Courier, July 1, 1875.
C. A. Bliss and I. E. Moore, our millers, are making negoti­ations to furnish the agencies and others south of us with flour.
Winfield Courier, August 12, 1875.
Perhaps it is not so widely known as it ought to be, that Messrs. Moore & Searles are engaged in the manufacture of cheese, but such is the fact. Mr. Searles informs us that this county is superior for milk, butter, and cheese, to the far-famed dairy region of New York. Their cheese is a good article, and should be used entirely by our merchants and people.
Winfield Courier, August 12, 1875.
Mr. Ira E. Moore is now prepared to furnish the city with milk. All those who wish it delivered at their residence can leave their orders at the Post Office.
Winfield Courier, November 11, 1875.
                                                         CORN WANTED.
The highest cash price will be paid for Corn at the Winfield Tunnel Mills. Corn, wheat, and rye wanted immediately. IRA E. MOORE.
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                                               THE WINFIELD COURIER.
                                                     CENTENNIAL ISSUE.
                         WINFIELD COURIER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1876.
I. E. Moore is proprietor of the Tunnel Mill, built by Covert and Koehler in 1872 and 1873. It is a three-story, substantial frame building containing two run of burrs driven by the water of the Walnut flowing through a tunnel beneath a narrow neck of land three quarters of a mile south of town. The mill is valued $16,000.
Winfield Courier, January 6, 1876.
Mr. Ira E. Moore is now prepared to furnish the city with milk. All those who wish it delivered at their residence can leave their orders at the Post Office.
Winfield Courier, February 17, 1876.

Sampson Johnson miraculously escaped sudden death last Thurs­day by being pulled out of a well at Moore’s mill, thirty feet deep, in advance of a caving in of the whole concern. The avalanche grazed his boots as he came up and it went down.
Winfield Courier, February 17, 1876.
Mr. Ira E. Moore is now prepared to furnish the city with milk. All those who wish it delivered at their residence can leave their orders at the Post Office.
Winfield Courier, March 16, 1876.
                                                         CORN WANTED.
The highest cash price will be paid for Corn at the Winfield Tunnel Mills. Corn, wheat, and rye wanted immediately. IRA E. MOORE.
Winfield Courier, May 18, 1876.
The great rise in the Walnut lacked two feet of running over the banks of the stream at Moore’s mill, nor did the water get into the mill.
Winfield Courier, July 20, 1876.
A new style of gospel is being preached at the Holland schoolhouse and other places in this and Sumner County by two or three traveling preachers, who call themselves Christ’s disci­ples. They are reported as healing the sick and restoring the infirm to health. They wear their hair long, part it in the middle, and observe other unusual habits. Several converts have joined them, five of whom were baptized in the Walnut, near Moore’s mill, last Sabbath.
Winfield Courier, November 30, 1876.
A PLAT of Valley View Cemetery, situated on Moore’s Hill, immediately south of town, is hanging in the post office. Parties desiring to purchase lots therein can obtain information concerning location, prices, etc., by applying at this office. The lots will be sold very low and “on time” that will suit purchasers.
Winfield Courier, November 30, 1876.
A PLAT of Valley View Cemetery, situated on Moore’s Hill, immediately south of town, is hanging in the post office. Parties desiring to purchase lots therein can obtain information concerning location, prices, etc., by applying at this office. The lots will be sold very low and “on time” that will suit purchasers.
Winfield Courier, December 21, 1876.
A team belonging to one of the Snow brothers ran away last Tuesday, starting from Moore’s Mill, south of town, and closing their mad career by running over a sulky plow, upsetting the wagon and running against the fence of Maris’ lumber yard. The romance of the event was represented by Miss Laura Snow, a young lady of sixteen years, who was in the wagon holding to the lines and guiding the team, not being able to stop them. Forty men tried to stop the team as it rushed through Main Street, but their efforts resulted in more harm than good for it prevented the brave young lady from keeping the centre of the road and resulted in an upset. The scene closed with some bruises, but nothing serious.
[AD: TUNNEL MILLS.]
Winfield Courier, December 28, 1876.
       TUNNEL MILLS. P. STUMP & CO., Proprietors. (Successor to I. E. Moore.)
                                                     WINFIELD, KANSAS.
The above named firm are now proprietors of the Tunnel Mills, and will guarantee satisfaction in all their work.
Orders, for the City, left at the Post Office will be promptly filled.

Moore’s Mill...
[FROM THE DEMOCRAT.]
Arkansas City Traveler, June 7, 1876.
The ford across the Walnut near Moore’s Mill is in a very bad condition, and should be attended to immediately. It is unsafe for loaded teams to cross, and quite a number of buggies have already been upset and the occupants thrown into the river by attempting to cross.
Winfield Courier, February 22, 1877. Editorial Page.
The taxpayers and farmers of Winfield Township are grievously disappointed at the action of Saturday’s meeting. They are no more so than the same class of men all over the county. It is a common cause. That our readers may see that our conclusions are justified, we give the names of the following heaviest taxpayers in town, who were in favor of a change of the law, and who have so expressed themselves: C. A. Bliss, C. C. Black, Dr. W. R. Davis, Col. J. M. Alexander, J. C. Fuller, J. B. Lynn, Dr. W. Q. Mansfield, B. F. Baldwin, D. A. Millington, Rev. J. E. Platter, J. P. Short, S. H. Myton, E. C. Manning, R. Hudson, W. L. Mullen, Wm. Rodgers, Max Shoeb, Ira Moore, J. P. McMillen, J. M. Bair, J. S. Hunt.
Besides these gentlemen there is a large class of smaller taxpayers in town of the same mind. Outside of the city limits four-fifths of the farmers are in favor of a change in the law.
Winfield Courier, April 5, 1877.
The following named gentlemen, citizens of Cowley County, started for the Black Hills last Monday: S. N. Beal, A. Hightower, I. E. Moore, G. Gates, G. Graham, H. Mullin, B. N. Wright, J. Bayard, W. and J. Brunnels, C. Hammel, and Mr. Culp, of Grouse Creek, and S. M. Gardner, B. M. Saunders, and P. King, of Tisdale.
Winfield Courier, April 19, 1877.
Ira E. Moore and family have gone to the Black Hills.
Winfield Courier, July 12, 1877.
                                            County Commissioners’ Proceedings.
                                                      I. E. Moore, fuel, $8.00
Winfield Courier, July 19, 1877.
False Bottom, Black Hills, is the present post office address of Ira E. Moore.
Winfield Courier, February 28, 1884.
Mr. Thos. Parker informs us that Ira Moore, whom many of our old citizens will remember as being the second proprietor of the Tunnel Mills, died in the Black Hills a few weeks ago.