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 . nsaving that in ourjudgment thev r a n kwith the best CO m p a n yspumps took first pre-mium at the Ameri-can Institute York, 1870-1S71 ;at the Massachusett
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 . nsaving that in ourjudgment thev r a n kwith the best CO m p a n yspumps took first pre-mium at the Ameri-can Institute York, 1870-1S71 ;at the MassachusettsCharitable Mechan-ics Association fair,Boston, 1874; at theriiiladelphia Centen-nial Exposition, 1S76;at the Southern , Louisville,18S4, and at e V e r ysubsequent competi-tive exhibition wheieshown. They arevaried in character,also, and suited t omany ])urposes, thelist including boileifeed, low press u r e,l)rewery, fire, eleva-tor, mining, tank, tan-nery, quarry, circulat-ing, su ga r-h o u s e. ,water works, acid,ammonia, ice manu rfacturing, distillerv,and i^ower p u m p pumjis andheaters, com bine dboilers and ])umps, and combined creamery engines and pumjis. They also furnish upright tubular boilers ofthree to twenty-five horse-power for supjilying steamto run pumps at railroad water stations,mines, hotels, and for fire jiressure and other piuposes, and are manufacturers of ^Villiam. V.\LLKV IUMIV 192 INLAND MASSACHUSKTTS ILLUSTRATED. Wrights patent bucket-plunger steam pumps in nine sizes, for feeding boilers of ten to livehuntlred horse-power, and for the Acme combined steam pumps and steam engine, whichthey build, together with theValley, Duplex, AB C, and double-acting|)ower pumps. Tluse works were estab-lished in 1S6S by the Kast-hampton Iump and SteamEngine Company, who in1S70 sokl out to the \alleyMachine Company. On thefirst of January, 1S89, Mavlier became sole])roprict(>r and adoi^tcd thepresent style of the ValleyIump Comp
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