The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-03

immense, and their cultivation never fails 10 nav
well. Worcester is, Also q great fruit country, It's
orchards being among the best in New England, and
famous at once for the varieties and the qualities of
their products well for the quantity Of the Weld
Apples Of every kind known to climate peaches,
pears, ounces cherries and 30 FORTH Are here 10 b
had in vast quantity, with each succeeding year.
Great attention has of late years been paid 70 the
raising of fruit and with the accustomed result,
such delicate attentions being never paid in vain
the orchard being no coquette. =
The amount Of moving lands, Of all kinds, "A
1860 was l64 $50 acres of pasturage of every kind
1886; of wood land, all kinds included 1853 792
Of unimproved land, l29 $685. of land used for roads,
Il ,54S; Of land covered by water, n 263; Of unim
provable land, 81 $40; and of tlage land, Al ITO.
The entire amount OF money at interest, in 1850
was $5 ,6l5 500; the value of bank and insurance
stock 81 424 $50: OF money invested in national and
State securities, s. 475 OF investments in railroads.
bridges canals, &c. $685. $40. The amount Of every
persons stock in trade, was but little short Of
50 900 900. The number of dwelling houses was
1858; Of barns 1879; Of all other works. buildings
and edfces, Of the value Of $40 and upwards, S249
The number Of horses, above one year old, IL 040;
of oxen, four years old and upwards, 1885, Of
cows, three years old and upwards 033; Of steers
and heifers, one year old and upwards, AS; Of
sheep, above six months, $685. OF swine, same age,
1876.
The manufacturing industry of Worcester county
is scarcely less remarkable than her agricultural
condition. Although she has no Lowell, where the
aggregate wealth OF few rich men can almost work
Mddlesex Essex in her contributions to the wealth
of the State, in that way which arises from the inge
nuity OF man in placing new value on the works Of
nature OF cotton factories she had eighty seven in
the year 1850, ami the number is not less at the
present moment. The largest number Of these
(seven) was at Blackstone, place which has risen
to great Importance of late years as manufacturing
place. Grafton also had seven, but while her act0
ries had but "a 800 spindles, and were valued at
$2lS, $50, with price per spindle of only %, Black
stones factories were of the value of $540,sl6 and
the number Of spindles was As ,06S, the price per
spindle being $l2 The new town Of Clinton, made
but few years since from part of Lancaster, had
three factories, valued at $429000 with Il 450 spin
dies. Mhury ranks fourth, with five factories,
valued at $2l3 ,l60. Sutton Sturbridge and Web
ster the next highest towns in the cotton manu-
facture, all the rest OF the towns having less than
one hundred thousand dollars cash invested in that
way. This refers especially to the state Of things in
1850, since which tine have nothing official 10 go
upon. The city of Worcester does comparatively
but little in the way of manufacturing cotton. There
are thirty towns which more or less interested in
the business directly. The total value OF the iac-
tories was 81 $50 1882, and the number OF spindles
was 270703
county, three years ago, was ftty-one. Hero again
Blackstone takes the lead and in q manner ever
more decisiyey THAN in the cotton manufacture. Shit
had five factories of the value of $4,000, and wia
thirty sets of cards, worth 81 900 each. The nex
town in this business is UXbridge, which had 6vt
factories, valued ut $lsO,O00. The third town il
S0uthbridge, which had two factories OF the value
$l50000 including printworks for muslin de Lame
Leicester had seven factories. worth $lO2 900; ami
the factories Of Worcester CITY, eight in number,
put down at $ll4,OOO No other place had above
$4,000 so invested. The new town Of Clinton had
$75 600, and one factory There is carpet factory
at Charlton, but the value is not given. The whole
amount of capital thus invested was 81 1892 500 being
about quarter of million less than that of Middle
sex, and about the same amount ahead Of Essex. No
other county comes near to Worcester In this res
pect though in the cotton business two or three
dine
her by more than two millions Of capital and by
seventy thousand spindles.
Worcester county is largely interested in the man
ufacture of paper. There were fifteen paper mills
there in 1850 with reported capital OF $l47 500,
which is probably much below the real amount.
Fitchburg takes the lead in this business, the num-
Der of her mills being then four, and the capital
therein invested s64000 It has been considerably
increased since 1850. Leominster comes next, With
two mills, and $27 Coo capital; then Westminster,
with three mills and $25 600 capital. The other pa
per manufacturing towns are Athol, Hardwisk, Har-
ward, Millbury, and Worcester. may here men
ton, that the greatest paper manufacturing town in
Massachusetts, is Lee, in Berkshire, where there
nineteen mills. with a capital of sl9l 900.
There fifteen card factories in Leicester four
in Upton, and one in Uxbridge. Amount of capital
$4,000. There is linen factory in Dudley, with Q
capital of 100000.
These great manufactures, however, afford but an
inadequate idea of the manufacturing industry OF
the county. We should look to what are considered
is really enormous. Among these things are hollow
ware and castings anchors, chain cables, boots and
shoes of every sort and kind. bricks, straw braid,
stoves, prepared lumber, chairs Of various descrp
tons, cabinet ware, straw hats and bonnets, palm
leaf hats straw cutters tools railroad cars carriages,
wagons, leather, shoe pegs, saddles, harnesses,
trunks mats shingles scythes axes, caps, tin ware,
fire arms, ploughs, soap candles, baskets, blocks
saws and saw frames, bellows, axhelves, quarried
stone, brooms gold and silver ware, pencils marble,
pals whips, charcoal shovels, spades hoes, match.
es combs, forks, copper pumps, bobbins, buttons,
boot and shoe boxes, seighs lasts, timber, rakss,
brushes cutlery powder, toys, wire, earthen ware,
machinery, locks and keys, brass ware, card wire,
various kinds of presses umbrellas, segars and mu
paper hangings, casks kegs, barrels raw silk &C.,
&c. &C. have jotted these articles down without
regard to regularity their resemblance to one an
other but simply to show the various character OF
the industry and productions Of Worcester. The
palm leaf hats manufactured in l845 the last year
Of which I have been able to obtain OH.
| cial accounts, were OF the value OF about
100000 The same year III ,796 chairs were made
in the town of Gardner alone.
OF agricultural articles not already specified there
raised in this county beans, potatoes eeets tur
nps Of different kinds, parsnips, carrots tomatoes,
pumpkins and squashes, cucumbers, melons, garden
seeds peas, sweet corn cabbages, herbs, buckwheat
various kinds Of straw, cider, cranberres, currants
wood peat, wool, and, in short, about every thing
| that can be grown or otherwise obtained from the
best farming region of Massachusetts,, taken "a q
| whole The water of the county, in the form Of
rivers. ponds, brooks and springs is both abundant
and good Ice is easily procured, and is extensively
housed. The forests are beautiful and Of
wealth. Nor are the ornamental works Of NATURE
wanting. Flowers, those smiling infants IF ths
prodigal EARTH" thrive luxurianty and the purpls
rose and white lily of the lake, can he secn in all
the perfection Of their bloom. Shrubs and ornanen.
tai trees surround the residences of the people, and
gardens and orchards ill the air with perfume
From the quantity of hay raised in Worcester the
extent Of its pasturage and the amount Of exculents
produced, it Is easy to understand that il il great
milk country. In 1885, the amount of cheese
made was q little over 1900 900 pounds; Of but
ter, 100000 pounds. 1t is now found 20 pro-
fitable to sell milk for consumption in Boston
nufacture Of butter and cheese having increased
much during the last eight years. This is one Of the
changes that the extension Of railroads over the
greater part Of the State has brought about. The
Westborough Milk Company at one time had formed
the project Of having a great depot for the sale Of
the article in Boston, at retail for four cents quartz