Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-11-29
Lowell As 1T WAS, AND AsIrI Is.

above title, by the Rev. Henry A. Miles, we
snake the following extracts, which may prove |
Interesting to those connected with manufac- !
lures in this city. PhlsdeIphia is soon destn-
ed to becsme the Manchester and Birmingham
Of the Union.
Statistics Of Low eri--rsken In 1s45.
Population 10000
Employed in ard about mills, OF connec-
ted with mechanical employment
Females $3.50
Males 29l5-o22j
S'hn-chcs, ~
Mills, I9l
Houses baloncipc IN fhe Corrorgfion go
Capital stock invested, SIZE, 1000
Weekly make of cloth, 1859. 100 vds,
(Which is prr annum, 75;s6sl800 vds. |
This is nearly enough to belt the globe twice
around.
Yearly consumption Of cotton, 6I1ho bales.
Printed calico annually made. / 1000 OOU yds
CoYsrMrIloN ANNUALLY.
Coal, 10 500 tons
Wool, 327a cords.
fAr, a. 900 gals.
N'harroal, COO, 900 bush.
starch 500 goo Tbs
Paid out for labor per annum, $1,000, 600
By arrangements now making aud made
which will brob1biy be soon completed the busi-
ness Of lowell will be eStendedto the amount
OF 20 per cent.
great nmonnt and variety Of other business
is done in Lowell, besides that of the incorpo-
rated companies. Mechanical skill and inge-
uuity here naturally concentrate, and the best
nj artisans and Of workmanship, in almost all
branches Of mechanical industry, may be here
found The extensive powder works of Oliver
NJ. Whipple, ure still in successfui operation,
making ~~50O0 lhs Of powder per annum.
The Lowell blcachcry, with a capital of $50.
900, carries on large business for an establish
r,en, Of that kind. Resides these, Lowell has
flannel mill blanket mill, paper mill plan
ing machines, n card factory, a whip factory,
reed machines, foundry, grst and saw mills,
sash and door mandatory, lock manufactures,
tarriage manutactory, and loom harness shops
all these together employing about five hund-
sod hands, and capital of SS600000.
a LOWELL wooLLEN Mill
Brt one establishment in this city is appro-
rra,ed to the manufacture of woocn cloth.
This is the Middescx Company Their wool
comes from the States of Vermont, New Hamp-
shire, New York, OIno, Pennsylvauis, Illinois,
Missouri, aud some, recently, from the Terri
sory Of Wisconsin. The quantity which is here
annually manufactured equals the produce Of
four hundred thousand sheep Received into the
rompsny's s'ore-room, it is first assorted into
eleven iifereni kinds. according to degressoi
fueness. The wool is rhcn dyed; after which
It passes thToHgh the picker. From the picker
It is taken succesevely to the carding, spinning
dressing and weaving rooms. The cloth is ther
''hurled, as it is called, by which is meant
careful removal ofal imperfect threads ant
the next processes are those of securing and iul
ding. At this stage Of the manufacture, th,
cloth lsupsEed to the gig" or mapping ma
chime, by which the mop is raised after whici
at is shorn, passing through the shearing ma
chine from ten to sixteen times. The fine glos
of the cloth is then put upon 1t 6y steam; ant
after another caseiSl examination by the "lin
,crs," it is marked, pressed, measured, done u
in papers, boxed and sent 10 Boston.
The large mill Of this company is seven stc
res high, one hundred and fity.eisht long, nm
forty y.six feet wide. Another, Of nearly tn
same sizc is soon 10 be erected The quantit
OF broadcoth GnG'csesimeres annually made,
about one hundred und fourteen thousand yart
Of the former, and six hundred and twen
thOusand yards Of the latter. Some af the yea
~ expenses attending this are Us follows lo
wood, six Thousand dollars; indigo, twenty-tv
Thousand ds!ars; glue, five thousand dollars
SOAP eight thousand dollars packing boxe
one lhoassnd six hundred dollars; wrapplr
paper, one thousand dollars. Sales of clio
have amounted 10 eight hundred thousand dt
lars per year. The whole importation Of cas-
neycs from England TO the United Stites,
lSii, was seven Thousand pieces; while I'll
complny SloRe manufactured, an that yet
more than twenty thousand pieces.
European Steam Navigation.