. Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown. tion charges. Pail making by machinery was begun in Swan-zey about 1830, this town being one of the pioneers in this important branch of industry. Althoughi REPRE8ENTATINE BUSINESS MEN OF WEST 8WANZET. lOd more prominent as a manufacturing than as a farming town, Swanzey contaius some excellent farms,and many residents give exclusive attention to agriculture. The surface of the township is veryuneven, there being many hills, the f
. Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown. tion charges. Pail making by machinery was begun in Swan-zey about 1830, this town being one of the pioneers in this important branch of industry. Althoughi REPRE8ENTATINE BUSINESS MEN OF WEST 8WANZET. lOd more prominent as a manufacturing than as a farming town, Swanzey contaius some excellent farms,and many residents give exclusive attention to agriculture. The surface of the township is veryuneven, there being many hills, the five most prominent of which are called mountains, but thereare also plains, having a total area of hundreds of acres and a large amount of intervale and meadowland. The soil of the plains is rather light, but profitable crops of rye, corn, oats and buckwheat havebeen raised on them, and as much of the soil in the intervales and upon the uplands is excellent,the aggregate value of the farm product reaches a high figure, and agriculture deserves a good share•of the credit for Swanzeys present wealth and prosperity. Representative Business Men of West S. W. SNOW & CO., Manuf. of Locked-CornerWooden Packing Boxes, West Swanzey, N. H,—If we wereto print a list of the uses to wliich locked corner woodenpacking boxes have been put it would exhaust all ouravailable space and more besides, for these boxes are ofsuch varied utility that they are equallj adapted for theuse of watch nianufacturers and confectioners, blackingmakers and chalk manufacturers, spice manufacturers,extract manufacturers, and toy -manufacturers, etc.,etc. They are strong, light, and neat in appearance,low in cost and popular among dealers anil consumersalike, so it is not to be wondered at that the demandfor them has reached immense proportions. The firmof S. W. Snow & Co., are very extensively engaged intheir manufacture and have been for a full score nfyears,they having succeeded Messrs. Snow & Mun
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