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 . , but burns readilv. It is a perfect substitute forivorv, shell, bone, etc., and capable of being emploved for anv of the ]>urposes to which thosesubstances are app
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 . , but burns readilv. It is a perfect substitute forivorv, shell, bone, etc., and capable of being emploved for anv of the ]>urposes to which thosesubstances are applied. luiglishman, Daniel Spill of the British Zylonite Com]iany,wasthe inventor, and sold his .Vmerican and Canadian j^atents to the American Zylonite Com-pany, capital $750,000, incorporated under the laws of New York September ii, iSSo. The plant of the companv at Zvlonite, near Adams, Mass., comprises some fourteen or fif-teen one and two story brick buildings of varying design and dimensions, fitted up with 254 INLAND MASSACHUSKTTS ILLUSTRATED. special reference to the work to be ])erf()rinccl. A description of the premises would conveybiit an inadequate notion of their extent and the vast amount of intricate and laborious oper-ati(jns carried on, and we shall not attempt it. Sutike it to say that in addition to amplesteam i)oweri25 people are employed— the company providing twenty-three tenements for. their sh(.ltcr. Eight hundred pounds of p,.|.v. ,,,?,,, ilic L. I,. 15rown \a\».i ^ i- > daily, and the output varies from six to nine tons per week, being shipped to all pointsin this country, Canada, and Continental ICurope. President I^mil Kijijier is a resident of Adams, as is aho Treasurer Ingalls. The latter isalso vice-president of the United Zylonite Company, described below. THE UNITED ZYLONITE COMPANY. W. L. Brown, President ; S. W. Ingalls, Vice-President; Frank S. Richardson,Treasurer—Manufacturers of Zylonite Collars and Cuffs, C
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