Litchfield enquirer., 1869-08-26

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 .4zo s For the Litchfeld Enquirer.
 In your weekly notices of what concerns the several towns and parishes of the County, perhaps you may be disposed to include the following in regard to 5 yhs
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 This, as you are aware, is an old settle ment. and was once much more populous and had more business activity than at present. The forges, the fulling. shearing and pressing works, the scissors factory, and the cabinet, chair and basket.making of former days have departed, but the place is by no means destitute of business life, notwithstanding. Carriage.making has been carried on here for many years, once, quite extensively by Smith & Broth Ter, and at present, more moderately by Smith & Whiting. At one period it is said, carriages from this establishment found a ready market at the South. and it is not improbable that when that region. again becomes settled and prosperous, or ders for good Yankee vehicles may return from thence, unless, indeed, the people there, shall, in the mean time, have learn ed to manufacture for themselves. ,a-r.-
 MT. Hutchinson, into whose hands the old grist and saw mills have fallen, has changed their relative positions, and so improved them as to secure greater eff ciency. s'' l:t'..o5 .i'@ .'aa'"1s..5 s17. j Passing by several manufacturing opera tions in which water power is used, such as the repair of wagons, the making of cart bodies, wheel-barrows. agricultural imple- ments, and various other handicrafts-the tanning establishment and the we'll filled ! merchants store-we desire more particu- larly to mention the establishment of a SIeigb Mamufactory, in which two or three industrious and enterprising young mon (Messrs. Bissells & Griswold- we know not the style of the House) are interested. Suitable buildings have been erected and the necessary and complete machinery sup piled. They have from seventy to eighty sleighs already in the various stages .o1 construction, and all, doubtless, of the most approved pattern. It is presumed they will receive satisfactory finish in time to take advantage of the first snow fall. They who are fond of favorite win ter pastime had better make their selec. | tions in good season.
 There are few villages that are favored with largersnumber of water privileges, either occupied, partially occupied, or not occupied at all, than Milton. The She paug, in it's whole course through the vii
 lage limits, is calling upon man to come ! and proftably use it's constantly descend. ing and now comparatively neglected wa ters. Even in some instances, where building and machinery already exist, the water poweris either totally idle or but oc casionally employed. Such at least might doubtless be availed of on reasonable terms. 7.t ..> qars # -.......a.,o
 It is true there is no railroad nearer than eight or nine miles to render heavy trans portation convenient. But there are seye- ral light manufactures of which wood and other raw materials obtainable in the vi 1 cinity would form the staple, that might readily be put in the way to market by the usual country conveyances z.s
 Land, building materials, and living are cheaper here than in. mostvother places having equal advantages, and to enterpri- sing business men with moderate, capital, probably no place offers more inviting opening than Milton. ~ A VISITOR.