The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-30
MASSACHUSETTS.

OUR SPECIAL GREAT FALLS CORRESPONDENCE.
GREAT FALLS (soMKRswoR7H), Mass, Jan. rs, 1850.
A Nesc England Manufacturing To,cs-7hirty Niles of
Cloth Turned Ont Daily-Pit Fsssenden the Fhvorle Of
the Republicans-D for Pierce Douglass de-
This town contains one Of the largest manufacturing
corporations in New England 1t is called the Great Falls
Manufacturing Company. The town contains about 600
inhabitants, nearly 1000 Of whom employed in the
mills The corporation has mills all built Of brick,
with foundations of stone, resting solid rock They
Ave and six stories high and substantially
ed The foundation walls two and half feet thick
the top and the walls Of the upper stories sixteen and
twenty inches thick The jar vibration when the ma
chnery is in full operation slight Mill No is 1854 feet
long by a wide; No 2, 100 by so; No. 3, 1913 by 4sIx
No. 1873 by 4s; No. s. 1927 by 49, No 0, about the
proportion; No. 22o1I feet long by As wide The
beams all fastened outside the walls except those that
are self supporting The supports pillars are mostly
solid iron posts.
The number Of hands employed is: males, 492 females
1,l72, with supcrnumary help swelling the whole
Der toward 1000 OF this number eighty 70 ninety per
cent Americans. The foreigners mostly Irish
with few English. The average wages Of males is
So GO per week females, 81 25, both exclusive of
board, which, for males, averages 81 IS per week;
for females 81 e. The money for board is paid TO the
operatives addition TO their regular compensation The
corporation regulates the price OF board The board
where they please but the girls generally board in the
corporation boarding houses
The company manufacture sheetiDgs shirtngs, print
cloths and drills Eighteen millions of yards Of goods are
manufactured annually; this is thirty miles day,
$3.50 yearnore than the diameter Of the globe. The
cotton consumed to 10 900 bales or 5000 900
per The number Of looms is 2i23 spindies,
SO lS4. Capital stock 81 500 0Co shares, go whole
number Of shares TOO dividend Of three per
declared last July, and four per cent in January.
The mills driving off every yard possible and the
goods sold in advance. Tho amount manufactured
week nearly up the best times OF 1885, The average
per week then $50, 600 yards; the present year
S64 600 yardstbe difference being occasioned by the
change In help When the mills partially suspended in
1857, number OF old hands discharged, and their
lively yet unfamiliar with the work. The business OF
the mills has been gradually increasing since the fesump
ton.
There are seven churches Great Falls, and il is es
that three ourhs Of the operatives attend one or
the other-the Catholics particularly.
There In danger Of drouth affecting the operations
Of the mills for the company the Salmon Fails river
TO III sonrce and can Aowsge the proper season,
keep good supply Of water always on hand
The agent of The mills, John A. Blrleigh, Esq, has
been In service twenty years, and but fatal
accident occurred In the mills during that long period
and the result Of careeesnsss. Mr.. Burleigh
has literally become blind In the service OF the corpora
ton but he well aided In bis duties by bis son. Geo W.
BuYleigh, EGG
Every body In Great Falls, except few "nobev sous
are black republicans majority Of the leading men
prefer Pitt Fesscndeo for the Presidency TO either nka
Seward but they do not indulge in very strong hopes
that the candidate win come from New England. The
democrats are for Pierce or Dougaas-mosty Douglas
The republicans IN this part Of the country denounce
John Brown BY Wholesale