New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions . es and one thousand sixlooms. Potomska mill No. 2 was built in 1877, when the capital stockwas increased to $1,200,000. The main building is three hundredforty-eight by ninety-tw^o feet in area, four stories high, with an ell onehundred eighty-four by ninety-two feet, two stories high, a w^eavingshed one hundred eighty-four by ninety-two feet, one story high, anda picker house seventy-one by forty-seven feet, two stories high, allof brick. This mill has fifty-eight thousand three hundred twenty-eight spindles
New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions . es and one thousand sixlooms. Potomska mill No. 2 was built in 1877, when the capital stockwas increased to $1,200,000. The main building is three hundredforty-eight by ninety-tw^o feet in area, four stories high, with an ell onehundred eighty-four by ninety-two feet, two stories high, a w^eavingshed one hundred eighty-four by ninety-two feet, one story high, anda picker house seventy-one by forty-seven feet, two stories high, allof brick. This mill has fifty-eight thousand three hundred twenty-eight spindles and one thousand four hundred twenty-eight total number of spindles in both mills is therefore one hundredsix thousand three hundred twenty-eight and the total number oflooms two thousand four hundred twenty-four. Both mills are drivenby Corliss double twenty-eight inch cylinder, five-foot stroke engines,of eight hundred horse powder each. The two mills employ abouteleven hundred operatives. The company owns twenty-six four-tenement houses, which are rented to the
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