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 . g city, and hastened to improve it. The principal industries ofTurners Falls are described further along. INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. TURNERS FALLS PAPER COMPANY. 203 B.
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 . g city, and hastened to improve it. The principal industries ofTurners Falls are described further along. INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. TURNERS FALLS PAPER COMPANY. 203 Farren, President; Willard E. Everett, Treasurer—Manufacturers of News Papers—Turners Falls. The reporter traveling from city to city and village to village in Western Massachusetts,visiting a greater or smaller number of paper mills at each of his stopping places, is apt towonder what becomes of the vast aggregate product, and upon inquiry is told that it is allconsumed as fast as made ; that the demand is fully equal to the suppiv, and that the print-ers, being constantly pressed for material with which to gratify the popular appetite for booksand newspapers, are themselves living embodiments of Oliver Twist in their cry for more. A conspicuous representative of the news printing paper industry is the iurners FallsPaper Company, incorporated in 1879, capital §120,000. The mill property is eligibly situ-. ated, with a side-track from the Fitchburg, New Haven & Northam]3ton railroad entering the]3remises, affording excellent shipping facilities. The buildings are of brick, one of twostories, 65 .\ 150 feet, the other of one story, 65 x 100 feet, a fire-proof tower standing outfit is first-class and includes, besides all other requisite accessories, two 1,200-poundwashers, and two 500-pound beating engines, two Gould engines and one Jordan engine, bothof great capacity, and several Fourdrinier paper machines, the whole driven by 200-horsewater-power. From s
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