History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . 1,250w^orsted looms, together having sixteen acresof floor space, a new large store-house anda big power house. The company re-equip-ped the old Pacific Cotton Mill and im-proved the Cocheco Mills at Dover, N. ow^n growing mills at Lawrence sur-rounded the Atlantic Mill, and this led to itspurchase. This plant was bought for itssituation and its waterpower. An important HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. purchase made a few years later, during theWorld War, was the printing business of theMerrimack Print wo


History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . 1,250w^orsted looms, together having sixteen acresof floor space, a new large store-house anda big power house. The company re-equip-ped the old Pacific Cotton Mill and im-proved the Cocheco Mills at Dover, N. ow^n growing mills at Lawrence sur-rounded the Atlantic Mill, and this led to itspurchase. This plant was bought for itssituation and its waterpower. An important HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. purchase made a few years later, during theWorld War, was the printing business of theMerrimack Print works at Lowell. This wasacquired advantageously and with its pur-chase came machinery and dyestufls whichwere valuable, particularly at that time. Thelatest purchase consisted of four cotton m:ll3 and all-wool dress goods. In the amountof manufactures of cotton warp and all-wool dress goods they are also unrivalled. Each year the finished goods cotton, as well as cotton warp and all-wool fabrics puton the market by them—require the prod-uct of 28,500 looms, including their Pacific Mills Worsted Department, Lawrence, Ma of the Hampton Group of the Parker CottonMills in Columbia, S. C. These mills arethe Olympia, Granby, Capital City andRichland Mills. Their equipment includedabout 200,000 spindles and 5,000 looms,enabling the Pacific Mills to have availableconsiderably more grey goods, necessary forits printing industry, than previously. Be-fore the acquisition of these mills theconcern made only about fifty percent of the grey goods required for thispurpose. In 1912 the capitalization was increasedto $12,000,000; in 1917, it reached $15,-000,000, and recently $20,000,000. The the worsted and wool goods arecomplete lines of serges, panamas, challies,linings, batistes, brilliantines, crepes. In thecotton goods are organdies, voiles, taffetas,foulards, mulls, percales, poplins, galateas,cambric, shirtings, back and face nappedflannels, cretonnes, scrims, etamines, ve


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