History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . Pacific Mills Cocheco Department. Dover, N. H. acres of cotton (or about 70,000 bales) andwool from 2,366,400 sheep is woven eachyear or enough cloth made daily to reachfrom Boston to Philadelphia. Over 500miles of cloth are finished and packedready for shipment daily. The annualoutput of finished cloth would reach morethan six times around the world. Theprint works can finish cloth at over a milea minute. In 1913 Lawrence & Co. opened a Lon-don office, to meet a w^orld-wide market forPacific goods, so success
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . Pacific Mills Cocheco Department. Dover, N. H. acres of cotton (or about 70,000 bales) andwool from 2,366,400 sheep is woven eachyear or enough cloth made daily to reachfrom Boston to Philadelphia. Over 500miles of cloth are finished and packedready for shipment daily. The annualoutput of finished cloth would reach morethan six times around the world. Theprint works can finish cloth at over a milea minute. In 1913 Lawrence & Co. opened a Lon-don office, to meet a w^orld-wide market forPacific goods, so successful, that they haveorganized a fully equipped special exportdepartment at their New York office. They now have offices or agencies in mostof the leading cities of the vi^orld where tex-tile fabrics are sold. It is very interesting tonote that Lawrence & Co., who, under thename of Amos and Abbott Lawrence, about. Pacific Mills, Columbia, S. C. Every year except two, during the sixty-one years since dividends were inauguratedin 1859, the company has paid cash divi-dends. In 1882 and 1883 no dividendswere paid. Those years the profits wereexpended on the plants. For thirty-nine years, the house of Law-rence & Company, of Boston and New York,has acted as selling agent for the Pacific 1 00 years ago were the leading importers oftextile fabrics from European countries, aretoday the leading exporters of textiles topractically every civilized country, and thatthe Pacific Mills products are now sold byleading retail establishments literally theworld around, as they are so made and fin-ished as to exactly suit the needs of everyseason and market. 335 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. GOODALL WORSTED CO. The progress of the Goodall WorstedCompany of Sanford, Maine, shows whatcan be accompHshed by specialized creativeendeavor. This Company was one of thepioneers to realize the opportunity in de-veloping
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