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 . cted with which are the dye-house, one story,50 .\ 70 feet, the beaming-room, 84 x 120 feet, and the boiler and engine house—all lightedthroughout by gas, provided with fire h
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 . cted with which are the dye-house, one story,50 .\ 70 feet, the beaming-room, 84 x 120 feet, and the boiler and engine house—all lightedthroughout by gas, provided with fire hydrants and automatic sprinklers, two steam enginesof 225 combined horse-power, and a iio-horse-power turbine wheel. Six thousand spindlesare kept going here the year round, and 100 people are emploved. Mill No. 2 on Depotstreet is also of brick, three stories, 40 x 150 feet, affords 18,000 square feet of floorage, runs4,000 spindles on cotton warps and yarns alone, and is operated by a high-speed Buckeye steam engine. In addition to their mills the firm own sixtv-five tenements occuj^ied by theirhelp. They are largely interested in and manage the (uevlock Mills in North Adams, andthe Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company. The latter corporation has just completed one of the finest cotton mills in New England, with 35,000 spindles and Soo looms. 17 250 INLAND .MASSACHIS! ! I - I! ! rslKAlI D. I Kl/yW^. \ /: 4 v3 1 ?yi INLAND MASSACHUSETTS ILLUSTRATED. 251 L. L. BROWN PAPER COMPANY. L. L. Brown, President; T. A. Mole, Treasurer—Manufacturers of First-ClassLinen Ledger and Record Papers—Adams, fame of the L L. IJiown Companys superb linen ledger and record papers is notconfined to this country but has extended all over the civilized world. For forty years this company have made a specialty ofthis class of papers, adding im- i,j^£^.«»;;;l^«*5gSjf^*.. / f ..ijg^^^**^!!!.- provements from time to lime un- %^^i^^^^^^^^«**^^j^t^,iii 1^^^^^^^^^^^^^- *
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