The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-05-21
THE RESERVOIRS.

REGARDED SUBSTANTIALLY OAob oSSSA1 OS-6 /
built by skillful engineers in most ap-
proved modern method and 3 large
amount expended last year IA putting
them in what was supposed to be perfect
order. The old dam ia at least twenty
five years of age, and is on the Goshen
branch. II was most carefully rebuilt
within the last two years. Above this was
a new dam built last year. The lam on
the Conway branch is six or seven years
old.
LIST OF MILLS, ETC, ALONG THE WAKE OF
THE LooD.
The mills on the stream, reckoning from
WiIliamsburgh down to Northampton, are
as follows:
William Thayers, tool factory, 25 men,
and two button factories, q total Of 80
hands. men and girls. The corset wooden
mill of Henry James, employs about %
hands. The large brass works OF Hayden,
Gere & Co., employ about 800 hands, and
is perhaps the largest and best appointed
factory ofthe kind in the United States.
1t was formerly the property of the late
Lieutenant Governor Hayden. The cot
ton mill of the Hayden Manufacturing
Company, 5000 spindles, employing about
80 hands. The Diamond Tobacco WORKS,
employing Is or 20 hands. The two x
tensive silk mills of the Nonotuek SIX
Company, employing 800 hands. Inc
large brick mill Of the Northampton brush
Company, employing about go or IS hands.
The cotton mill Of theGreenville Manufac-
taring Company, 5000 spindles, employ
ing rs or so hands. Northampton, for
merly the Bay State Cutlery Company,
employing probably 200 hands. The Gle
inert and Hawkes. Manufacturing Com
PAW. agricultural implements, employ
ing so hands. International Screw Nail
Company. employing rs hands, and the
large basket factory of the Williams Man
ufacturing Company, employing about lOO
hands Also, the Skinner Silk Mill, en-
n~Iovine 50 or so hands. Besides these
there are some half a dozen grist and saw
mills. som of them of considerable capac-
!, ity. which are within the range Of the de-
{ visitation.
|, The manufacturing capital invested
ALONG Mill river and affected by this disas-
> ter 69lacinE It at the lowest estimate, must
be five million dollars, and the immediate
population suffering is about nv thous'
and. The population Is almost wholly 6
l manufacturing one, which has grown up
i around the dams. The heaviest loss BY
q this disaster will fall upon the estate o
s the late ex-Gov. Hayden, who died a few
months since. One of these mills was re-
: Gently sold by the executors Of the estate,
s Sunday had been set apart by Hayden
. vile for memorial services IN memory o
I the late Lieutenant-Governor when al
r the members of the family were expected
: to be present. Reports were in circulation
in Boston to-day that Lieutenant Cover
nor Talbot and wife were in H~aydenvlll'
at the time the disaster occurred, but the.
are untrue. Governor Talbot left here o.
: Tb,r.5av for Nortbamnton ON private
business, accompanied by his wife, VIII
}. has since returned, and Governor Talbot /
supposed to be il Northampton. Henri.
IS James, owner Of the four sets of wolfe
ID mills, was to have sailed from New Yor!
le to-day with his family for Europe, but b
departure has been interrupted by atel'
t. gram from Springfield.