The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-04-04
For the Journal
Evansvills-E Commercial and Manufaeturin
''a Resources.
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Many things combine to detract from the
value of water POWER, which do not effect the
supply of coal, and its consequent efficiency
and availability Dry seasons Cor instance,
frequently limit the supply Of water power,
there being very few places where perfect
constancy Of maximum capacity can be
sustained. Floods sometimes do damage to
the factory property, and ice almost every win
ter more or less completely suspend opera
tions for a time especially in the North, or
wherever water is depended on for power.
Coal of course is not subject to any of these
hinderaAces. 1t is always procurable, under
proper management, the seasons having little
or no effect on it ssupply. With these remarks
as to the excellency of the power which we
so abundantly possess, | will submit the
following extract from the Scientific Ameri-
cnn which explains itself, and shows the great
effect of plenty of available power in building
up cities in localities destitute of almost every
other natural advantage.
Industrial Statistics.
We are indebted to S. w. Huse & Co., pub
fishers OF IoE POPNb, for the following indus
trial statistics of Lowell, Mass.
The Middlcsex Company make use, annu-
ally, Of 20O0000 teasels, 100000 lbs. fine
wool, 5o.oC0 lbs. glue, $4,000 worth of dye
stu.Is, aud $1,000 worth of soap.
In addition to the above, the Merrimack
Manufacturing Co., use 1000 900 lbs. of mad
der, $4,000 copperas, 10000 alum, $4,000
shumac, 10000 soap, and $4,000 indigo per
annum.
The lowell Bleachery uses &c, 600 lbs, ,indi-
go, and $4,000 worth of other dying materi-
as. per year.
The population Of lowell in 1928 was g..
532. In 1910 it was 20,796. In 1850 it was
$685.. Increase in ten years. 1929. Pop
ulation Of Lowell in 1855, 1868.
The Lowell Machine Shop, located among
the above mills, can furnish machinery COM
plete for mill of 600 spindles in three
months.
The several manufacturing companies have
established hospital for the convenience and
comfort Of persons employed by them res-
pectyely when sick, which is under the SUI
perin:endence Of one Of the best Of surgeons
and physicians.
In Lowell there are twelve great establish
ments, which have an aggregate capitat stock
Of l4,9oO,oOO; they have 90 mills, including
shops; run 800, ,344 spindles, and ii ,S89 looms.
They employ $500 females. and 1897 males.
They manufacture 2,374, 900 yards of cotton
per week, 1900 of woolens, and $4,000 of
carpets. They use weekly 10000 pounds
of cotton. and $1,000 Of WOOL and consume
annually 62,317 gallons Of oil, and 10000 Of
lard, 29150 tons of anthracite coal, 81, 300
bushels of char coal, and 1,649,OOO lbs Of
starch. The average product Of each loom
weaving No. IL yarn is 45 yards per day;
weaving No. 80 yarn 33 yards per day.
1t is the water power Of Lowell which with
the skill and energy Of her citizens have
made it such manufacturing city. The fac
tories although heated by steam are worked
with water, there being no less than 81 breast
wheels and 46 turbines employed-21 of these
center-yent wheels. The total water power
engaged for manufacturing purposes, we learn
from Mr.. Francis work on Hydraulics,
amounts to 1906 horse power.-Scaentifc
american.
Our proximity to so many OF the materials
used in manufactures, and our much greater
facilities for procuring cotton, especially those
at Lowell will be appreciated by every in
telligent reader. Iron, wood, copper, lead,
&C. are almost at our doors.
We have an abundant supply Of one profit
able material for manufacture, underlying
our whole country. which is especially
worthy Of mention. From seven to nine hun
dred feet below the surface, are very rich,
thick and extensive salt bearing strata of rock
that may be tapped at very small cost, which
from actual experiment, is ascertained to he
equal to those of the kanawha salt basin, ii
not superior to them: with the rest OF our re-
sources, this one is of ncalculable value. At
the depth Of from fourteen to sixteen hundred
feet, the very best of fresh water is also attain
able. Our formations are such, that all we
have to do to procure an exhaustless supply
of both salt and the purest natural water, that
is ever obtained, is to make an Artesian bore
down to them, and they will rush to any
height above the surface that can be desired.
The benefit OF a plentiful supply Of water,
derived from the pure white sandstone,
strained from all adulterations, adapted to
drinking, and any sort of manufacturing for
which the great impurities Of almost all sur
face waters unfit them, cannot be too highly
appreciated.
lt would probably not be irrelevant to state
in this place, that measures have been set on
foot, by the citizens of our city, which will
probably soon supply US with both fresh and
salt water. The manufacturing resources O
Evansville, may be better judged OF by tht
above statements Of facts, than anything ye
done in this kind of business. We hay,
hardly begun it. There are now howeve
four iron foundrieS in operation. Three o
these have Machine shops connected, and one
is for stoves exclusively. Another is being
built, and will soon be ready for use. Th
force necessary to work these can be but lit
tle short of five hundred hands. They pro
cure their iron from the Canal and Greel