The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-12-14
Manufacturing Items.
MASSACHUSETTS,.


The masons are now finishing the towe
OF Chace Mil, Mt Fall River, and the car
Penters have laid the floor in nearly al
the stories. Sixteen Of the thirty-two pair
Of mules have arrived, and two pair hav,
already been set up. Thirty cards, tw'
slashers and four Wrappers are also in tn,
mill. The engine has not yet arrived, bu
q small one, from the Hawes Machine Co
has been set up in the carding room for tn,
purpose Of grinding the cards. The com
pany are erecting thirteen houses, Will
tfty-four tenements for their workmen.
The Thread Mill now being erected a
Fall River, by Joseph M. Davis, was raised
ON the 9th inst. It is 30 65 feet, and
will he built in thorough manner.
The new mill Of the Lowell Hosiery Com.
pany is finished, and the machinery is be-
ing pat in the carding room Of the estaL-
llshnlent.
The Taunton Car Co., has sent si1 ia,
ears to MOntevideo.
The Plunkett Moolen Co, has resumed
work in the Hinsdale Mills
The large cashmere mill in MilIbury.
owned by Nelson Walling, which ~as Iar-
italy DESTROYED by fire last July, has been
already IN operation, and the mill will soon
be running at its full capacity mplace Of
the fiat gravel upon the old mill, a new
pitch roof has been substituted.
The Williston Mills have given up the
manufacture of cotton thread, and have
substituted machinery for the man1fsc-
ture Of cotton yarns. They are now turn
ing Out s4O, 600 worth of yarn per month
The new Lyman Cotton Mill, Of Holyoke,
Ia nearly completed, the roofs being already
on, and the finishing being rapidly pushed
forward. Its 21,OOO spiIldles will, it is
supposed, lie in active operation next
spring. An addition Of one-third will thus
b. made to the present capacity Of the
mills, and the hands employed increased
from 25O, the present number to about
LOO. The two mills now i'll operation
produce the extreme grades Of cotton
goods, No. turning out daily 80, 900 yards
Of heavy drills, sheetings, and shirtings,
and No. 2 making about IL, 900 yards
day Of fine sheetings, shirtings lawns, and
organdIes, using the finest yarns in the
United States
MAINE.
Mr.. Linn, employs in the Sebasticook
Mills, at hartland, nearly 100 operatives,
who turn out about 1900 shawls and scarfs
per week His goods received the gold
medal at the State Fair.
The Norway Wooden Mill will soon be
put i'll operation again.
A MIR Esty, Of Houlton, intends to
erect four-story building in that town to
be used as factory, and there Ia talk Of
putting ia looms for wooden.
SOUTH AND WEST.
Petersburg, Va, lays clam to being one
Of the most successful manufacturing
places i'll the South. Seven Of the twelve
cotton factories Of the State are located at
Petersburgh, and most if not all Of them
are doing a lucrative business In add
tIon to these mills there are several large
Touring mills, ia and near the city, on the
Appolnattox. the entire capital invested in
oottOII and Touring mills being over 81,
lOO, 600 About =, 900 hands are employ
cd in these establishments, to say nothing
pf those engaged in the manufacture ~
tobacco. in the twenty large factories of
Petersburg.
"Ae Oregon City Woolea Manufacturing
~ He eight full setts of looms, with the
cc'"'l@hS-'v machinery in proportion,
anu give e"'l'-'vment to lao operatives,
consuming ahhuar.s am. ODO lbs. of wool.
Their building is Of brlI ..va .tor,a. b;rb
including the basement 49, r....,,,I,,
received an order from A. T. S,.-rart II
New York.
There are nov ~ stove manufactures =.
Troy, n. Y. They are nov turning out
All aggregate of AN, 90 stoves q year. con
suming q, ,00 tons Of pig iron, and 10. ODO
tons Of coal, and giving employment to
about =, OOO men in different capacities, as
moulders, mounters, filters, pattern max
ers, and laborcrs
The Tennessee Cotton Manufacturing,
Company, Of Nashville, carried off the
palm at the New Orleans Exposition, and
they have now gained a greater victory
having had awarded to them, at the Gin
cinnati Exposition, the highest premium
"a silver medal-for the best standard
shectIngs exhibited
$l4, 2j9, 900 is the amount Of capital in
vested IN the manufacture Of woolen goods
in Pennsylvania.