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EdaoFl q SPira off jefferson and Free Press:

EdaoSs Or SPiril Of Jefferson and Free Press:
MEssBs. sEDnoRs-At your Request havc
Tor your columns, and for the informa-
ton Of the inhabitants Ofyour Valley, brief abb
stract from the circular Of the statistics Of Lowell
. Compiled from authentic sources, January, Al"
The principal Manufacturing capital there EN-.
ployed, is gil 10000, distributed in la Manu-
featuring Companies; and aeapiial of Sslo,75o,
employed b, private individuals. The Cotton
and Wooden Mills run 25a. 456s pindles and 1915
looms, and manufacture %, 6s4 COO yards Of Cot
ton. ,0l5, 400 yards Of Wooden goods, and s25,-
900 yards ofCarpeting, annually.
The Manufactures employ 1918 females and
1910 males-tctal, IL ass hands; averaging g.
$50 yards each, per year, or about "a yards per
day.
The important fact is before the country that the
Lowell Company about 20 years ago, expended a.
vast attount of.mohey in bringing the waters OF
the Meftimsck River, "a stream very considera-
bly inferior 10 the SHENANDOAH tributary to the
Manufacturing interest, and that they derived
about $4,000 900 therefor But il is not SO gene
rally known that their water power being oil en-
ployed, lhey last year engaged in an importan;
undertaking. to increase their water power, the
building Of the nep canal, destined to give TO most
ofihe mills on the lower Level, a more regular sup
INNER level It's 10 be Of an average w'ata ol,loe
sse, and depth OLD feet. Il will require 10 us
construction, I rock excavation Of loo GOO yasds'
: ,,h excavation Of llo, 900, and mass Of ma
,onry Of So, 900 yards, the whole estimated at an
expense a 100000.
IT, sda;,ional Cotton Mills have since been
.,sS ruuninr, together l040 looms, or equal to
~ a ne Victory. on the Nirginus Island =
80 - - which running 400 looms is driven BY
s.s.n Twenty years ago, 1928, the population
- Iouell was 3, 632--ip l846 i was ~ land
/ no,v nrobahy exceeds 100000
SarL Messre. Editors, 10 the result Of eastern
..,s,cr;se availing itself Of natufai advantages
~. =, go, - those on your own beautiful Sben
..nao.h, which your liberal citizens permitted
shod time since 10 be almost given away tior I'M
s.te 81 inducing improvements among yQn,-
per,,, me gentlemen in return, for the kind 10
citation % occupy . space In your columns !
4 s,reafing these details before me community
md for the interest manifested oy generous puu
lie 10 our suecess; to sssure you ma. wei%nl 9
Oh ~ active eompesitpQ 49, -, ~. =.
v Nher Companies !. in rendefif ~ the ns
IN, .essntaees we have purchase !, ~ condu
eve a yowth and Improvement q tbs sec
ton :, >, SSse ;Sptry-as the Merrcmack tlser ne
been 500 ~ ssstweld- -ana gsilRe fFee,ly y
creased ana Wing community, why shpn
we moi accom- no - wishia q short pefic
Iof time, as he now important city Of LoSeil n
lbeen in progress Aud permit me the honor
naming this EmArvo City, in conjunction w.
Harpers-F Ferry, BoSsar and Buena Vista, Y
whole forming greas important outlet TO y
valley. SEEnAEDoAH Cry For this favor
subseribe myself yours truly
HIRAM ELLIS.
p. s.. In the course ola few:Weeks Ihopo 20
able 70 give 70 the public the esiiuate Of C..
Fisk, Esq., Civil Engineer, Of the cost Of CO
STRUGGLING the works for commanding he who
lpoweroi the Shenandoah at the Gulf Mi ;uieu
ed TO be constructed By the Strideresp Msnat,
turing Company. H. z.