Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-22
Manuracture. of Worcester North.

ond to Milford in its number of inhabitants,
Fitchburg stands first, out of Worcester city,
in the towns of this county, in the extent of its
enterprise in the various branches of manufac-
turing industry.
The manufacture Of paper constitutes the
most prominent branch of Fitchburg industry.
The well known firm of Crocker, Burbank, &
Co., are the most extensively engaged, by far,
in this business. They employ in all eight
hundred hands. They run four mills on book
and news paper, which constitutes the most
successful part of their enterprise. They run
two mills on book-cover and envelop paper, and
blue paper, and one on the coarser kinds, made
of the lower stock from the other mills. They
run seventeen engines, two on the Foudrinier
principle, and two on the cylinder principle.
They manufacture in all about three tons of
paper per day, consuming in the same time
about five tons of stock in bleaching, alum,
lime, soda ash, sal soda, and chemicals, consti-
tuting nearly as much more.
Messrs. Croker, Burbank, & Co., are max
ing large addition to their largest mill, and
are OlIlcIMlSc ltSlllIiOo lOl
mess.
Messrs Jesse Lyon and Sons, in the manu-
facture of the same product, are running two
mills, principally on news and blue paper, and
B. Snow & CO. are running one large mill of
eight engines, chiefly on hanging paper.
The above establishments are all situated in
the westerly part of Fitchburg. Toward the
north, on the edge of Westminster, Franklin
Wymans mills, principally on news and card
paper, are in full operation.
In the west village of Fitchburg, Messrs.
Whitman & Miles, well known in this city, are
doing an extensive business in the manufac-
ture of moving and reaping machines and edge
tools, employing in all some thirty or forty
hands and R. Philps's hosiery mill employs
some fifty or sixty hands. Here is also A.
Whites mandatory of knives for paper ma
chinery, doing good business, as well as also
Abel Simonds' and a. Kimball & Sons scythe
manufactures.
In the center of the town, near the depot,
are situated Colonel Alvah Crocker's mills, in
which arc employed about three hundred
hands, in the following kinds of manufactures
Chairs, iron machinery, piano fortes, iron
castings, and brass and copper work of every
description. OF chairs, the Haywood Compa-
ny manufacture about eight hundred per day,
and the Putnam Company manufacture about
S150000 or S200,000 worth of iron machinery
per year.
II. w. Page makes for Hallet, Davis & Co.
of Boston, twenty piano fortes per week. In
this group are also the Fitchburg foundry and
machine shop, Page, Smith & Co.'s. foundry,
and Wheelock's brass foundry, and Pratt &
Davis are prospecting largely in the manufac-
ture of chairs.
Added to the above in the centre, are-the
Fitchburg Wooden Mill, the Sherwin Cotton
Factory, Gardner Farrow's palm leaf factory,
and S. A. Wheeler & Co.'S. stone cutting
works
In Newton's Lane, are operating largely, the
American Rattan Company, a very rich and
powerful corporation, of which Hon. Moses
worthy of mention, Ross & Stevens reed fac
tory, and the old stone mill cotton factory.
Near the Jail, one mile south, are situated
Blackburn's two cotton duck mills, and Ed
win Richardson's scythe factory, manufacture
ing extensively.
GARDNER.-Iu this town the manufacture of
wood being very largely engaged therein and
giving employment to a very numerous corps
of hands. His business constitutes the life of
the town.
AsHBURNHAM.-The principal element of
industry in this town is the manufacture of
chairs, pals, and tubs. Messrs. c. & G. C.
Winchester, in Ashburnham Centre, employ
one hundred and fifty men in the chair manu-
facture, and Messrs. lockwood & Walker
make from 1900 to 1900 pals, and It's nests of
tubs, per week, each nest constituting eight
tubs of all sizes.