The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . ident; J. Dun-can Upham of Claremont, treasurer;Thomas Fry and Albert Ball, both ofClaremont, are, respectively, secretaryand mechanical engineer. All told,there are on the corporations payrolls about 1,200 people, and themajor portion of these are em-ployed in the Claremont plant. Thegeneral offices are in Chicago and inthe plant in that city from 250 to 300people are employed. Since 1892 thedevelopment of the Claremont planthas proceeded with astonishing rapid-ity. Improvement has followed im-
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . ident; J. Dun-can Upham of Claremont, treasurer;Thomas Fry and Albert Ball, both ofClaremont, are, respectively, secretaryand mechanical engineer. All told,there are on the corporations payrolls about 1,200 people, and themajor portion of these are em-ployed in the Claremont plant. Thegeneral offices are in Chicago and inthe plant in that city from 250 to 300people are employed. Since 1892 thedevelopment of the Claremont planthas proceeded with astonishing rapid-ity. Improvement has followed im-provement, and all new construction has been of the most complete andthorough nature. The most recent ofits new expansions is a mammoth ? ^^BPP^ ^ ^^HpHHI WHKjt < . ?nl/f \ r E ^^ , ?^Bjl -^^jmLI^ All Alone foundry, not yet completed. Natur-ally the works have brought to Clare-mont a small army of skilled me-chanics and labor of the highest gradeof intelligence. In addition to theplants that skirt, for many a hundredfeet, both the north and south banks 142 Nen^ Hampshires L/argest Town. Looking Up Sugar Riv^jr of Sugar River, there belongs to theClaremont plant a single blacksmithshop that is 250 feet long and of pro-portionate width, and room for fortyblacksmiths. J. Duncan Uphara, the corpora-tions treasurer, is at present a mem-l)er of the executive council of the
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