. Lawrence yesterday and today (1845-1918) a concise history of Lawrence Massachusetts - her industries and institutions; municipal statistics and a variety of information concerning the city. lectricity enough is generated every day to run the entire streetlighting of Boston and all the other cities and towns within 10 normal product of nearly 200,000 acres of cotton (or about80,000 bales), and the wool from 2,366,383 sheep are woven everyyear. Over 330 miles of cloth are woven each day, or enough toreach from New York to Washington, D. C. (226 miles), and halfway back again. Over 5
. Lawrence yesterday and today (1845-1918) a concise history of Lawrence Massachusetts - her industries and institutions; municipal statistics and a variety of information concerning the city. lectricity enough is generated every day to run the entire streetlighting of Boston and all the other cities and towns within 10 normal product of nearly 200,000 acres of cotton (or about80,000 bales), and the wool from 2,366,383 sheep are woven everyyear. Over 330 miles of cloth are woven each day, or enough toreach from New York to Washington, D. C. (226 miles), and halfway back again. Over 500 miles of cloth are finished and packedready for shipment each day. The annual output of finished clothswould reach more than 5^ times around the world. The Pacific Mills were incorporated in 1853 with a capital of$I,COC,COG, which was increased in 1855, 1858 and 1862 to $2,500, the. present time the capital of the corporation is $15,000,000, 148 LAWRKNCE—YESTERDAY AND TODAY including the main plant in Lawrence and the mills at Dover, N. Columbia, S. C. The Pacific goods first appeared on the marketin the fall of 1854. At that time, under a low tarifif, English printed. PACIFIC MILLS—WORSTED DEPT. calicos and delaines came largely in competition with home products,causing a sharp contest for control of the trade, which was eventu-ally won by the New England mills. The original mills and print works were built under the super-vision of the Essex Company. They were remodelled in 1882, andsince then they have been enlarged and added to from time to time,until at present the local plant is one of the largest mill plants in theUnited States, with i] brick buildings, and a floor space of 135acres. The main cotton mill l)uilding is 806 feet long l)v ji feetwide, and seven stories in height. Weave sheds, varn mills, dyehouses, print works and power plants spread over an immense assessed valuation of the pro])erty of the corporation in Law-rence is $10,157,70
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