History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . lding was 300 by 72 feetand six to eight stories high. Here 1000looms were run and enough auxiliary ma-chines to supply yarn and finish it off whenwoven. The second building w^as the printworks, which has since become justly fa-mous. The shop was 1000 feet long andthree stories high. growth. In 1862 it was $2,500,000, and re-mained at that figure for almost forty 1867 the aggregate sales were approxi-mately $8,000,000. At that time about 3,-600 were employed. The corporation did not acquire newpropert
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . lding was 300 by 72 feetand six to eight stories high. Here 1000looms were run and enough auxiliary ma-chines to supply yarn and finish it off whenwoven. The second building w^as the printworks, which has since become justly fa-mous. The shop was 1000 feet long andthree stories high. growth. In 1862 it was $2,500,000, and re-mained at that figure for almost forty 1867 the aggregate sales were approxi-mately $8,000,000. At that time about 3,-600 were employed. The corporation did not acquire newproperty to any extent until 1 909, when theplant of the Cocheco Manufacturing Com-pany was purchased in Dover, N. H. Thiswas the initial step in expansion externallyand was of considerable material gain andadvantage to the Company. TTie Pa-cific continued to operate the mills atDover, N. H., but transferred the printingmachinery to Lawrence. It was at this timethat the Pacific Mills became the vanguardof the American print industry. Previousto its acquisition by the Pacific the Cocheco. Pacific Mills Cotton Department, Lawrence, Mass. The immense size of the plant nearlyoverwhelmed the Company during the firstdecade or so. The low tariff was also anobstacle to its success. The financial depres-sion of 185 7 caused serious difficulties. Ab-bott Lawrence, the president, came to therescue, how^ever, and from his personal fi-nancial resources, supplied several hundredthousand dollars. The temporary disruptionof the textile industry in this country by theCivil War in 1864 again brought anxiousdays. The Company weathered all thestorms and distracting crises, however, grad-ually increasing in strength, until it is nowa thoroughly successful concern. At theclose of the Civil War, 3,500 looms werein operation and 1 00,000 cotton and I 6,000worsted spindles, besides eighteen printingmachines. Today the plant covers 1 82 acresin floor space alone and operates 15,933looms with 660,1 12 auxiliary
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