. 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 . l is imported from Spain. James M. Taft & Co. Threads. Commenced business1861, occupying one floor in Greens mills. Employ 60 per-sons, manufacturing about 500 doz. spools of thread per day. William H. Haskell & Co. occupy 8,000 square feet,in a building erected by them six years ago, for the manu-facture o


. 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 . l is imported from Spain. James M. Taft & Co. Threads. Commenced business1861, occupying one floor in Greens mills. Employ 60 per-sons, manufacturing about 500 doz. spools of thread per day. William H. Haskell & Co. occupy 8,000 square feet,in a building erected by them six years ago, for the manu-facture of coach screws, bolts and nuts. They have 12 hotpresses, 7 bolt cutters, 6 nut tappers, 2 bolt pointers, 8 ma-chines for cutting screws, 5 lurning lathes and 1 planingmachine. Their power is furnished by a 25 horse powerengine of the Corliss pattern, with cylinder boilers ; em-ploy about 50 hands and do a business amounting toSl60,000 per annum. J,iORTS:?IOUTH «ROVE,59i miles ^Fi from Boston, and 7^ from Newport. A station oni^W the Old Colony and Newport Railroad, in the town ofW^ Portsmouth. This place during the war was used asa hospital for United States soldiers. Webbs N. E. Railway and Manufacturers Statistical Gazetteer. 439 WM. H. HASKELL & CO., Manufacturers of. ©lilLIT-iPOINT


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