Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-07-28

Mai. David Page, which contained $40
spindles and Is power looms, producing
daily 800 yards of sheeting. These two
buildings are easily recognized as the
sold cotton mill'' and the Sheldon grist
mill which were destroyed by the fire of
November, 1891. OF the grist mill the
professor says:
The situation of this mill is singular.
and the plan, in part new, was formed
by an ingenious architect, Mr.. Lavlus
Fillmore, to whom | am indebted for the
following particulars relating to it. 1t
stands on a solid rock projecting into
the creek about 80 feet upstream from
the falls. After leveing the rock suf-
ficiently for the foundation of the build
ing, a vault was cut IN it 43 feet long,
% deep and Is wide, which brought it
nearly even with the surface of the
water at the foot of the cataract. Then
an inlet was formed, % feet in length,
through the solid rock from the bed of
the stream to the vault, through which
the water in sufficient quantity to carry
all the stones and other machinery flows
into flume 43 feet long wide and is deep
fortified by solid rock on all sides except
one, where the water in the ordinary man
ner is thrown on six tub-wheelS, built
on an improved construction and placed
in the bottom of the vault. The water,
after acting on the wheels, collects it
self into a single channel, and, passing
through subterraneous outlet cut for
the purpose in the rock under the bed
of the stream, discharges itself into the
creek below the falls.
On the south side of the river was
another cotton manufactory, owned by
John Warren, that produced 1000 yards
of cloth week. Under the same roof
was fulling mill that had fulled $1,000
yards of cloth annually for the preceding
20 years, and cardng machine that
each year carded from G000 to $4,000
pounds of wool. On the same side of
the stream we've also two saw mills,
two grist mills, "clothier's works,
and some other establishments of MINOR
importance, together with the marble
mandatory of DIR. f. w. judd who,
according TO the author, discovered the
stone in 1902, began working it in 1906,
and built the large mill then in opera
tion in lS0S. "The marble has, he
says, "till lately been obtained chiefly
from a quarry situated within a few
feet of the mill. During three or four
of the last years much has been procured,
at the time of low water, from the bot
tom of the creek Immediately above the
falls. The product was sent away to
points as distant as Georgia. The sales
of four years are given and average
over $1,000.
Perhaps the greatest contrast between
the town then and now is shown in the
number of industries. Prof. Hall gives
this list of the shops, etc., then in opera
ton within the limits of the the village
3 hatters shops, 6 shoemakers', tailors,
A milliners', saddlers', 2 goldsmiths'
l clothier'si works, 7 blacksmiths', l
gunsmith, glazier, wheelwrights, l
painter, 2 coopers, 2 tlnmen, ? potteries,
2 manufactures of potash, 3 tanneries,
2 bakehouses, cabinetmakers', 8 house
joiners, masons. At the paper-mill
falls there were an oil mill, paper mill,
a saw mill and clothier's works.
The remainder of the pamphlet is de-
voted to description of the face of the
country, its products, etc.