Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-11-29
or THE EVENING POST
THE TOWN OF LOWELL.

Lo,ceIl-Hs Corporations--Sta Statistics Of its Nan
Acknowledgements Of The City Character
ofthe operatives.
| Among the many places Of interest in eastern
! Massachusetts, Lowell stands prominent. capi-
tai stock 2,460,0O0 owned by twelve corpo-
rations, Is here invested in manufacturing. The
| Merimack the largest of the corpora tons, has
capital stock of 100000. The other companies
have capital stock varying from 81 ,SOO,OOO to
S2l0, 900. These companies have about 50 mills,
which contain Sol ,29I spindles, and S,749 looms.
They employ between twelve and thirteen thousand
hands, two-tEirds Of whom are females.
The mills and factories Of Lowell consumed last
year 637 600 pounds of cotton and 46 1000 pounds
of wool per week. They used 25,4GO tons of an
thracie coal, $1,000 bushels of charcoal, 1880
cords of wood, 100000 pounds OF starch, and 765
barrels of flour
The aggregate of cotton and wooden goods mado
in Lowell per week is nearly 100000 yards, or
about 200 miles per day, which is enough TO reach
FROM Boston 10 Albany. At this rate they make
cloth enough in year to girdle the earth three
times During the last year the proportions Of
cotton and wooden goods made follows: L.
10000 yards of cotton, II ,29l yards OF wooden.
and $500 yards ofcarpe,ing The proportion made
at the present time is about the same.
The Merimack is the largest of the Lowell COT
poraiOns II runs 61 sos spudles and 800 looms.
u employs 2,245 hands, 600 females and 645
males 1. ,nukcs 345,eeo yards per week. and
consumes 10000 pounds of cotton. One OF it's fac
tories is 800 feet in length and 50 in breadth and
six stories in height. The rooms occupy the en-
Tire floor in story. In two of the rooms there
in each 800 loows and 100 girls. In another room
there are 10000 spindes and 90 girls This build
ing has been recently erected, and the machinery
in IT is Of the most perfect and improved kind.
The printing works Of this corporation well
worth visiting, and also the carpet works Of the
Lowell company.
LIN addition 10 the mills, where made the va
rious articles of broadclohs, and cassimeres, and
drillugs, the visitor should examine the extensive
works of the "Iowell machine shop" This com
pany employs 500 hands, and 600 tons Of
iron annually. They make all kinds of cotton and
wooden machinery, locomotives, steam engines, and
machinist's tools. They can furnish machinery
complete for mill Of 6,0OO spindles in three
months, which is about the time required for tho
erection ola building.
The average wages Of females per week, clear
Of board, is 81; of males per day, clear of board,
81 cents.
Lowell has three banks, two institutions for ss-
wings, an insurance company, and public library
of 600 volumes. The present population of 10
well is about $4,000. In 1890 it was only 200;
in 1880, GIT and in 1910, 20,96l.
In its general appearance Lowell is neat and
pleasing The factories and mills are built in
hollow square. The ground enclosed is generally
neatly turfed and planted with shade trees; and in
some instances adorned with shrubbery and flow
erS. Every thing abuut the mills is kept perfectly
neat, and also within them SO far possible.
The girls in the mills generally neatly clad;
and they exhibit in their cOuntenances and in their
manner intelligence and refinement than an
tcipaied finding. Great is taken by the con-
ductors of these mills not to admit any as opera
tves but moral and worthy persons; and it is tho't
by those who know most OF the operatives that they
would not suffer in comparison with an equal num-
Der of la5oreTs in any other community. g.