History of the city of Lawrence . e durable, healthier, and ultimately cheaper, has arisento take its place, no one who prizes the happiness and pros-perity of the country will fail to greet it with most heartysatisfaction. We have before said that the consumption of combing woolin this city amounted to 500,000 pounds. This estimate isbased upon the business of 1865 and 1866. From carefulenquiries among the manufacturers of Lawrence, we find thatthe machinery already set up, or now being set up, will re-quire in the aggregate no less than 1,200,000 pounds ofcombing wool. Present appearances in
History of the city of Lawrence . e durable, healthier, and ultimately cheaper, has arisento take its place, no one who prizes the happiness and pros-perity of the country will fail to greet it with most heartysatisfaction. We have before said that the consumption of combing woolin this city amounted to 500,000 pounds. This estimate isbased upon the business of 1865 and 1866. From carefulenquiries among the manufacturers of Lawrence, we find thatthe machinery already set up, or now being set up, will re-quire in the aggregate no less than 1,200,000 pounds ofcombing wool. Present appearances indicate that the valleyof our noble river is destined to be the seat of the worstedtrade of the United States. No mills exclusively for themanufacture of cotton have been erected in this vicinity formany years. On the other hand, we have had no less thanfive mills erected for woolen and worsted fabrics exclusively. 150 ADVERTISEMENTS. American Water Wheel Company, MAmJFACTURERS OF ^7«r j^ n. rt E5 INT»js ni. Iiflii© Water Wliil. For Cotton and Woolen Factories, Grist Mills, Saw ISIills, »&c. ; ALSO, Mill G-earing, Shafting and Pulleys OF EVERY description:. i]vif»rove:d regmjl^tors, (the best in use.) GRIST MILLS AND SAW MILLS built by contract, at short notice, and in the most thorough orders promptly executed. Water Wheel Worlds, 387 Federal St. Business Office, 31 Exchange St.,BOSTON,, MASS. AIjOM-ZO WAKKEN, Agent. HISTORY OF LAWRENCE. 151 and two, the Everett and Peraberton, have each a woolen de-partment. All the most recently erected mills are run aloneon woolen or worsted fabrics. In the line of braids there is probably more doing herethan in any other location in America. The machines uponwhich these braids are manufactured are of American inven-tion, less complicated, lighter and cheaper than the machinesfor the same purpose used in England. It is also claimedthat they do more and better work, and that, as a consequence,the importation of braids from Eur
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