Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-03-17
THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER.
[From the New York Tribune. !

Messrs Persse & Brooks, Of No. 81 Nassau
ST., have recently finished and pu, in operation
at Windsor Locks, Conn, new paper mill
Cihe Pacihc) 300 feet long, AZ wide, two stories
high besides the basement, built in eighteen
months at cost Of about 100000. In this
and their old mill, (ihe Anchor,) which is Of
about half the capacity Of the new, they con-
siantly employ 1870 men and boys, TO whom
they pay about s., 500 monthly, and will pro-
duce, when all their machinery is in, about sew
en- and half tons Of paper daily. worth some
81 800, OF al the Iate of over $500 900 year.
This is presumed to be the most extensive man
ufactory Of paper in America, or perhaps in
the world, The produc, is almost exclusively
printing paper, mainly news. The location on
the Connecticut fiesr, with the irain inland
route by railroad from New York to Boston d.
rectly in front, and steamboat navigation on the
Connecticut Immediately in the rear, would
seem to be well chosen, while the workmen en-
joy the pure ait Of the broad, free country, and
exemption from the baneful influences of city
life. Mcssrs Persse & Brooks have been part
ners in the paper business for some twelve
years past, aud their business has gradually
grown TO its present magnitude.
Some two weeks since, being in Lee, Mass,
VIC accepted an invitation to visit some Of the
numerous paper mills Of that town, which have
been greatly extended within few years past.
Here every variety Of paper is fabricated, fiom
the broad sheets SO extensively devoured by the
daily and weekly press TO the finest article re-
CURED for bank notes. A small but constant
mill-stream, which flows from little lakelet
some five miles southeast of the main village,
and falls some three hundred feet in the course
of two or three miles, is frequently damned
for power, and thickly studded with mills and
their adjuncts. We judge that the business has
been profitable from the fact that it has been so
rapidly extended. Yet, in looking through the
mills devoted TO the production Of note, letter,
cap and other writing We found that
much if not most of it was stamped with Bri-
fish and French marks, and put up in flaming
envelopes printed in ihis city yet purporting 10
be English and to enfoId British fabrics
Are we never to be done with this wretched,
cowardly, swindling selfdisparagement The
manufacturers, in answer to our remonstrances,
pleaded their dependence on the dealers in this
and other cities, who sent up the envelopes
ready printed and would not buy the paper I'M
less inclosed therein The dealers, we have
no doubt, would little rather be honest than
not, but will say that they cannot sell fine pa
pers unless they are stamped ''I3aih Post, OF
some other lie, and emblazoued with the arms
of Queen Victoria. The general result is, that
our people, who never see sheet of English
made paper, suppose they buy none other, and
that no really fine paper is produced in this
country. Hence, thousands OF articles really
foreign are bought and used when better could
be made here at less cost IL our people did moi
mistakenly suppose that every tasteful and ele-
giant fabric must necessarily come from Europe
Is there no way out Of this balefu labyrinth Of
lies