Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . wo storie^and a one-story equipment in all de-l)artments is first-class, amiembraces every descriptionof iron-working machinervand apjiliances ai)propriateto the w
Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . wo storie^and a one-story equipment in all de-l)artments is first-class, amiembraces every descriptionof iron-working machinervand apjiliances ai)propriateto the work done. Thirty-five carefully selected me-chanics are eniploved, everyparticle of material used is subjected to rigid scrutiny, aiu! no pump or boiler leaves the works until it has been thor-oughly tested and found perfect in all its i)arts. As a consec|uence the machinery made hereis of the highest order, and is in rapidly increasing demand not only all over the but in foreign countries. Mr. Mayher, born in Albany, X. V., has resided in Western .Massachusetts for manyyears, and is a rc])rescntative business man, president of the Kasthampton Savings Hank, adirector of twenty-four years standing of the First National IJank of Kasthampton, auditorand a director of the Kasthampton Rubber Thread Companv. and a director of the CilendaleKlastic Fabrics Company, and the Gas and Electric Light DIILKX PlMI EASTHAMPTON RUBBER THREAD CO. James B. Ford, President; E. T. Sawyer, Secretary, Treasurer, and General Man-ager—Manufacturers of Rubber Thread—Easthampton. Rubber thread is used for a variety of purjioses, but principally in the manufacture ofelastic fabrics, suspenders, garters, surgical and orthopedic bandages, suspensories, anil manyother useful articles. The Eastham])ton Rubber Thread Comjianv was incorporated in 1S64, and the plant andappurtenances represent a cash investment of 5200,000. The factory building, 50 .\ 200 feet,three stories in he
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