New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . and picturesquely situated on the west side of Clarks cove,and the property is extensive and valuable. The works are easily accessible. Vessels drawing sixteen feet ofwater can be handled at the docks and the dock room is ample toload or discharge two large vessels and several small vessels at thesame time. The machinery includes three tubular boilers of aboutninety horse power each, a Brown engine of one hundred seventy-five horse power, two large crushers for phosphate rock, mixers, andthree hoisting engines.
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . and picturesquely situated on the west side of Clarks cove,and the property is extensive and valuable. The works are easily accessible. Vessels drawing sixteen feet ofwater can be handled at the docks and the dock room is ample toload or discharge two large vessels and several small vessels at thesame time. The machinery includes three tubular boilers of aboutninety horse power each, a Brown engine of one hundred seventy-five horse power, two large crushers for phosphate rock, mixers, andthree hoisting engines. The works and docks are lighted by elec-tricity, furnished with a twenty light Ball machine, run by a Porterengine of twenty horse power. The buildings of the factory, outside. INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 275 of the houses, cover about one hundred thousand square feet. Thesales of guano for the past three years have averaged over twenty-five thousand tons. The Bay State fertilizer, which leads all others used in this sec-tion, is a combination of phosphate rock, large quantities of animalbone and fish treated with acid, muriate and sulphate of potash,nitrate of soda, and kainit. These articles are seen piled in hugeheaps upon the floors of the extensive storehouses. There are twovarieties of the phosphate rock, one of which is known as marshrock. It is light in color and is dredged from the beds of SouthCarolina rivers. The other variety is drab in color and is found justunder the soil on the river banks. The entire manufacture takes place in a four story building, inwhich all the machinery is located. On the first floor the rock iscrushed, and there are five runs of mill stones which grind it to apowder. Forty or fifty tons of rock can be ground here in a day
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