. Webb's New England railway and manufacturers' statistical gazetteer; containing an interesting sketch of every station, village and city on each railroad in New England, together with a statistical, historical and biographical account of their representative manufacturing establishments . umber-land, Smithfield, Blackstone and Bellingham, has 17cotton mills, employing 3,500 hands, running 207,000 spin-dles, 4,030 looms, using ,000 pounds of cotton andmaking 40,000,000 yards of cloth per annum ; 8 woolenmills, employing 2,050 hands, ruuning 114 sets of cardsand 450 looms, using ,00
. Webb's New England railway and manufacturers' statistical gazetteer; containing an interesting sketch of every station, village and city on each railroad in New England, together with a statistical, historical and biographical account of their representative manufacturing establishments . umber-land, Smithfield, Blackstone and Bellingham, has 17cotton mills, employing 3,500 hands, running 207,000 spin-dles, 4,030 looms, using ,000 pounds of cotton andmaking 40,000,000 yards of cloth per annum ; 8 woolenmills, employing 2,050 hands, ruuning 114 sets of cardsand 450 looms, using ,000 pounds of wool, and mak-ing 2,9000,000 yards of fancy cassimere per annum. Othercotton mills, which will have spindles, are in pro-cess of construction. Just beyond the limit of three milesfrom Woonsocket are 2 more cotton mills with 30,000 spin-dles, and a woolen mill with 19 sets. Other branches ofmanufacturing are represented in this region by a rubber fac-tory, which employs 15 hands, and produces $500,000worth of goods annually, machine shops, foundries, 1 boil-er shop,1 scythe shop, 2 manufactories of agricuhural imple-ments, 1 glue factory, 2 roof factories, 1 bobbin, 1 shuttle,1 worsted mill, 1 tape mill, 4 or 5 sash and blind shops,contractors aud builders, & CONIS^ECTICUT. C^l IVDOVER, 67J mUes from Providence, /^. 22i from Han ford. A eouatry statiou on the Prov-(^ ideace, Hartford & FislikiU Railroad. I Day Bros, occupy a mill at Marlboro, 9 miles from theabove depot, for the manufacture of cotton warps and building is 3 stories, -50 x , wood, with basement ofstone. They run about 600 spindles and use about 300 cotton per day. The mill is run by an overshot wheel,the fall being about 22 feet, the wheel being 20 feet. Theproduction of this mill is about 1,.jOO pounds per week. Theoffice of the company is at 210 State street, Hartford. Colchester, New London County, is an inland town,situated 15 miles from Norwich, 12 from the above de
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