New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . and carry- l62 NEW BEDFORD. ing on the business of the New Bedford Manufacturing Company,and the demand for liner grades of yarn, suggested a wider idea of additional mills had been constantly discussed by thedirectors of the old company and it began to appear that the businesswas capable of much greater development than was at first thoughtpossible. These andother considerationsled Messrs. How-land, Rotch, Plum-mer, and ClifixDrd,with some others notidentified wnth theNew Bedford Manu-facturing Compa
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . and carry- l62 NEW BEDFORD. ing on the business of the New Bedford Manufacturing Company,and the demand for liner grades of yarn, suggested a wider idea of additional mills had been constantly discussed by thedirectors of the old company and it began to appear that the businesswas capable of much greater development than was at first thoughtpossible. These andother considerationsled Messrs. How-land, Rotch, Plum-mer, and ClifixDrd,with some others notidentified wnth theNew Bedford Manu-facturing Company,to purchase a largetract of land as thefirst step toward theestablishment of themost extensive andbest equipped cottonyarn manufacturingenterprise in thecountry. Negotiations for ^*^^>n?;^jjthe purchase of alarge tract of land inthe southwest partof the city were com-menced, but inas-much as the ownerswere widely scat-tered over the globe,they were in progressnearly a year and ahalf before the mat-ter was first broachedto the public. Atlength the title toabout one hundred.
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