Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-27

These ten Incorporated companies annually
tons of COAL 1910 cords of WOOD 6254s gallons of sperm
OIL and 900 gallons of olive and other oil used in the ma
nufacturing of wood.
There are also in LOWELL besides the above enumerated
coporaed companies, very making
900 pounds of powder annually the Lowell Beachery
with capital of $4,000, flannel MILL blanket MILL paper
mill, planning machines, card and whip factory reed ma
chimes, among the most curious specimens of human con-
rivance, foundry, grist and mills sash and door ma
nufaetoy lock manufactures carriage mandatory and
shops together employing capital of $780, 0OO
about 500 hands
The following is summary of the statistics:
Population nearly 80, OOO of whom g. 800 females and
2sl5 males together 1885, are employed as operatives either
in the mills connected with other mechanical employments
There 33 mills and about $50 houses belonging to the
corporations
Capital invested in manufacturing and mechanical enter
prses Sl2, 0O0, OO0
Made in Lowell every week l45s 100 yards of CLOTH or
600 yards per year. much as would nearly twice
surround the globe.
The cotton worked up every year is 81, 100 bales
Printed cacoes made here annually 600 of yards
Wages paid out annually than 500 0OO and the an
profit of TINS immense business has estimated at the
amount about l per The business prospects
of the city said to be very encouraging and large additions
Il
We should like to extract from Mr. Mess very interesting
little publication his description of Lowell mill and Low
ell because they develop causes of the
very satisfactory results noticed by Dr. Scoresby Miss Mar
neau, and Others in the admirable moral conduct and the
mental superiority of the female operatives of Lowell.
The operations of preparing the cotton for spinning the
spnning weavng and trimming processes, and the bleach
ing and printing of the Calico all very graphically and
scientifically described, and unfold interesting chapter
of manufacturing skill and application The manufacturing
OF woollen cloth and Of carpets is also given.
The average daily time Of running the mills twelve hours
and ten minutes Much camor has been excited by
ment similar to this in of the public prints and we
should be constrained to admit that labor for this length
time continued for month after month and year after year.
would be excessive, and too much for the tender
young women to bear be understood however
that because the wheels of the mills rum average
than twelve hours day. all the operatives either work
in attendance during that length Of time The average
number of hours in which the girls employed does
coed fen and half The faacy been assumed that every
operative duty just long the machinery in mo
ton From record kept with great in the boot mill
fact has been asceaned that the average daily abo
the females in that establishment was ten hours and eQh
minutes There think that the examination
of the books Of any other mill would lead materially dit
rent result The hahiness of Lowell the best commentar,
possible upon the charge that the nature Of the employment
and the close confinement to labor preuc may be
duced from the following comparison with other places abou
the size Of Lowell and presenting the variety Of city ant
rural population. Average mortality Of