New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-09
.r.. New City,-uampden, Mass.

.heY arc bADLLi ALLa, "neic me CONNECTICUT
.b.s and foams down descent % some forty
-, oyer bed Of rugged rocks in the course OF
.. Around these falls on the vest side Canal
as constructed by company Of English emf
-ssts some forty years ago and has remained in
q s,r boating rafting timber, &c 10 this time. A
,,ory was constructed on or near tie canal and
.opelled By water diverted from the channel by
!, low. rude dam required 70 M the canal ana
let It's lockagcs There vas no village IN sign''
q the AL acent land generally sandy ana poor
4,re not rendered intractsbe By rocks o. prcci.
.,,s was divided into thinly scattered and not
,y thrifty farms Not many portions Of the Con
..t;oat River Valley wore less inviting Or pros
,.ro1s aspect.
Three or four years sgo a company oi capitalists
ohsd turned the Chicopee River some tea miles
law. into Manufacturing Canal, and built up
!. village Of Cabotyille thereon. making good
.,s.tlnent thereof pitched upon Had.ey Falls for
!. ,heater Of far more gigantic enterprise. Say
., ,o,hing 10 nobody, they commenced buying up
d, lsnds necessary 10 command q the Falls
,.b good deal more On the West side, amount
~ % some twelve hundred acres Ia all, OF nearly
,a,sIleOgam Of TWO miles by one. with incou
,1srsble exceptions. One, Loco / Oco who owns
s4y scrcs IL the very heart Of The New City re
.,s 30 sell 1t because as he says he il " hostile
s,orpora,ions This Corporation has made ms
,1 woth $40 900 when but for its operations.
1900 would have been high prioe ior 1t Still
s,sa free country, ADD man Is not obliged -
nsrcse common sense unless he has u We PIE
oue. however, whenever the Corporation or any
Az else viii give him 100000 he will sell out
,,l 20 on cursing Corporations as badly as ever.
Having thus secured n good foundation for their
,<srprise. the Company proceeded in lsis to dam
a. Connecticut at a cost Of over 100000, bat the
esisy river disdained 10 be mpeded ia its course
:, such q pitiiul rate as that The dam being
,,npleted and closed, the filling commenced but
men the water had reached within two feet Of
ne TOP the structure gave wsy, was utterly dc
poi.hed and in good part coated of. Nothing
S,unted, the Company at once began again, and
iis time with proper idea OF the magnitude Of
bsjr undertaking Covering the ground and its vci
s,y all last summer with about many workmen
q could stand on it. they turned the current hher
nd ,hther throughout the dry season by tcmpore
r. dams. drilled md blasted out wide and deep
bandaton for Their great permanent dam in the Solid
nck 9, the bottom OF the channel. Here the founda
ton was laid. the tmbers being bolted down into
he imnovable rock beneath and their nersticos, as
,he work progressed, fllod in with pebbles Thus
he dam was rapidly but ondarncy constructed.
ver thousand feet in length and to hight Of
thirty feet above the surface below, with immense
tone sbutments and a heavy wall protecting the
new manufacturing canal on the west side Of the
iver $40 feet wide and twelve TO twenty deep
trough which the whole water OF the river, except
he leakage of the dam. will be conducted for
pace Of three and half miles, being ali used
.wce ever in propeling machinery, and then re
AIMED into the present river bed hardly halt a
nile from the point OF departure. The cost of the
resent dam alone is over $4,000 the basin above
eng graveled nearly up 10 its top at very Sigh,
,asle, end the leakage inconsidorable. The whole
lolume Of the river now Pours over 1t IN besuti
d sheet 1000 feet long. foot deep, and thirty
eet from the surface above to that below
The Company has already completed one great
ANillNt GDhp dhH ~ - w WV ""'N"N' " WV
$50 built two mammoth Cotton Mils, into which
bales Of Cotton will DO hoisted to come out bales
Of finished Cloth These Mills arc each sin stories
high, three hundred feet long, and will each lind
work Tor fully 1000 persons in the various depart
meats Of Carding, Spinning and Weaving They
are admirably warmed throughout 10y steam from
An engine house in basement between the two.
The rooms are all some thirteento fifteen feet high
aaltlessy lighted by windows on every side, and
row fitting up with the most improved machinery
We presume there are no better mills anywhere
They are radically vicious in one respect-that OF
Ventilation. There is mere show OF provision
cr this, but no, hundredth part OF what is need
u Who will frame an act Compelling factory
'sners to do their duty in this respect TO the
'aying Of health aud life
The Company mean 10 sell these mills as soOn
Is possible and build more, and SO on until the
immense capacity of their water power is exhaust
Cd They are also selling lots tor stores offices,
dwellings,. sc and would prefer to sell or rent their
water power to others who will improve it where
they can II they can set all their power into use
even At moderate rates they can sell their lands
Tor enough to pay them Iborslly fer thor invest
aeui which is already Two Millions of Dollars
they have been compelled to pay for Flowage'
Fishing Rights, long unused. and good for moth
ne else but to bleed Corporations upon Canal
Stock &c &C at the highest prices But they
began with full chest and viii so through trium
phan;y when other enterprises as inviting but mol
20 well backed have failed OF must fail
Here, then is great river set to work Tor man
Flaming Boards, Forging and Boring Iron, Card
ING Wool, Spinning Yarn. Weaving Cloth, &c
lew years will witness the collection OF Twenty TO
Thirty Thousand People on this spot, and they
vii be able to accomplish more for human susie
aahee and comfort than thrice as many unaidcd 10y
external force could do This IS great work, aud
essentially good one but 1t might have been bet
Ter Capital has done II well but looking only to
ne interest Of Capital. the benefit to Labor VII
Neoasidershle. but Incidental aud rightly enough
n' Labor has here planned nothing invested moth
as rsked nothing Yet the time must come when
LaAH too. will dam rivers and build factories Ger
iseli, or at least hire and use works already con
stsCted Ii should be So now
hs sad to note how reluctantly men embrace
a tdes. II half one will just serve their turn.
hey will insist On stopping at that. Here are
cser machine shops. factories, ON the proper
which ensures the largest economy--
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