Litchfield enquirer., 1852-09-09
Merrimack House, Lowell, |
: Eeptember lst, 1853.

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 Friend KiLbour1se - Dear Sir r am, here in che city of spindIes, and lhinkings1 {. hat some general accon nt Qf lhemills and their products would be interesting to you and your readers, 1 have gathered few fects and statistics which here comlnu- nicate to you. E . There are in Lowell eight companies who mannfactufe cotton goods entirely, yiz.. the Merrimack, Hamilton. Appleton, Suffolk, Lawrence, Fremont, BoOtt. and Massachusetts. The Merrirnack and Ham ilton print portion of tIieir goods; the Lowell Company manufactures scottOn' cluth, carpetling and rugs the Middlesex. manufactures woolen goods, broadciotlis. cassimeres, aud ingrain carpetsi at the Lowell Machine Shop are manufactured all kinds of machinists' tools, cotton and Soolen machinery, mill woak, locomotive and stationary engines. The Lowell Blsachery bleaches, dyes and finishes cot ton cloths rnanufactured hera and at other Dlaces.a The entire capital of the works above named is about $l2, ,OO0, 900, and additions have been made to the capilal ot some of the companies by the present Le- gislature. The annual consumption ol these mills is about thirty five millions ot pounds-of wool, two millions five hundred thousand pounds of iron. six thousand tons-of hard coal, twenty-five thousand tons-of charcoal, tllirly-six thousani bush-' eis-of oil, one hundred twenty thousand gailons--and of starch, oyer one million pounds. ln the works are employed nine thousand females and four thousand males. The produet' Of this vast amount of material and labor is, in cotton cloth eighty million yards-in calicoes, twenty million yds.- in bleached and dyed goods, fifteen million y6s.--in broadcloths and cassimeres, over one million yds.--in carpets, nearly five hunIred thousand yds.-besides machinery to the amount of two million dollars. Tie value of the whole product. varying with the price of cotton and the state of the market, may be stuted in round numbers at $IO.O0e, 900.
 To give nlore distinct idea of the above amounts, OO,O00 yards of carpetlng would cover about 100 acres :: the broadcloths and :assim6res would cover 300 acres the ;alicoes and the bleached and dyed goods 1t a yard wide would extend in line about 10000 miles: the cotton cloth. same width .s above, would extend 5000 miles, or l vice around the earth. a
 The daily product is two hundred miles.
 rabout seventeen miles of cloth per hour | go that it may be said that the manu. ,acture is carried on here with almost I alroad speed.
 uousands l' as L8WItssI wa receiyed city charter
 since its first start in 1929 the increase las been rapid, the population now being ,bout 36000. The city has established md carried ou, liberal public policy. hay- Dg expended the past year $45, 1000 for sctools--of which there are ] High, 8 Grammer, and 35 Primary, all with cons senient aud spacious houses for their ac. :ommodation. There are in the city, 30 churches and 3 banks. Parks nave been enclosed and planted with trees, at each end of the city. A Cemetery, after the inannero oi Mount Auburn. has also been laid out. ~.
 Among the capitalists who have stead. fastIy assisted, with their copnsels and money, in these enterpizes, may be found the most distinguished merchants of Boston the Appletons, Perkinses, Lawttences and L0welis.
 Much, very much more of interes. ! could naine. but time will not admit.
 The storm of Saturday and Sunday was tremendous in Boston. The rain fell ip torrents without cessation from Friday evening until Monday night, accompanied by a severe gale. sas& fss
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