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I <br /> railroad by-passed the neighboring settlement of Hamilton , <br /> forcing it into obscurity . 6 <br /> By the spring of 1907 two electric lines were completed , and <br /> a station was built on Zigler St . to accomodate passengers . Both <br /> lines originated from South Bend . The Northern Indiana Interurban <br /> ran through La Porte to Michigan City .- The Chicago South Shore, apjr­� <br /> ran to Chicago and is still -operating today , The Interurban was <br /> forced out of business by 1932 . 7 <br /> Farming naturally became the area ' s leading industry because <br /> of the fertile prairie surrounding the town . Corn , wheat and grain <br /> were the staple crops , and a small flour mill was in operation by <br /> 8 <br /> 1842 . Joseph Druliner , one of the first settlers in Olive Town- <br /> ship , owned and operated the mill which could produce ten to twenty <br /> barrels of flour a da 9 <br /> Y • Because milling was so profitable , a se- <br /> cond mill was constructed by Morton and Brown on Michigan St . Its <br /> capacity and productivity were three times that of the Druliner <br /> mill . After being destroyed by fire , the site of the mill was <br /> moved to Arch St . The only remnant of the milling industry in New <br /> Carlisle is Carl Zahl ' s grain elevator and feed mill on Arch <br /> St . built in 1949 10 <br /> There were extensive forests of Oak , Pine and Basswood cover- <br /> 1.,.art <br /> ing the Terre Coupee prairie when the first settlers arrived and <br /> lumbering -a-l-s-o_ .b-e-c-arse- a thriving industry . The first recorded <br /> saw mill in New Carlisle was the Ewers Mill . It was bought in <br /> 1880 by Owen Tippy and Samuel Miller , who then added a broom <br /> 11 yR"I( <br /> handle factory . The New Carlisle Lumber Co. / now stands on the <br /> former mill site . Other enterprises spawned by arealumbering <br /> 2 <br />