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 . s 50 x 120 feet in area, s fitted up in the best possible man-ner, contains seventy-six nail and staple machines of three tons daily capacity, and emjiloysone hundred operativ
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 . s 50 x 120 feet in area, s fitted up in the best possible man-ner, contains seventy-six nail and staple machines of three tons daily capacity, and emjiloysone hundred operatives. It should be observed here that the numerous mechanical devicesused are uuiqu.; and original, constructed expressly for this company (which controls the pat-ents) from designs furnished by the ingenious agent and superintendent, Mr. G. W. liond. The specialties include every description of finishing, chair, basket, cigar-box, Hungarian,shoe, trunk, clout, and common nails ; tacks for every conceivable jnu pose from steel, .Swedes,Norway, .American charcoal, and common iron, brass, cop]ier, and zinc. During the ])astfour years a su]3erior line of novelties has been added, embracing among other items double-pointed tacks, shade, basket, barrel, keg, clinch, and electricians staples, etc. The goods made here are handled by the trade everywhere, and a steady increase ofdemand and sales marks each succeeding INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. 185 LEEDS. NORTHAMPTON EMERY WHEEL COMPANY. Ira Dimock, President; J. L. Otis, Secretary and Treasurer—Manufacturers ofEmery and Corundum Wheels and Emery Wheel Machinery—Works, Leeds,Mass.; W^estern Office, No. 20 S. Canal St., Chicago, 111. This important re]3reseiitati\e concern was founded by Otis (\; Williams, who, beginningoperations on a small scale in 1867, •itcceeded so well that in the ensuing year a joint stockcompany was formed, capital $40,000, increased later to $50,000, and finally, on the incorpo-ration of the
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