The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-10-27
COTTON MILL At
NO POWNAL SOLO
TO P[UNKETTS
Together With Similar Plant at
WilIiamstOWn
TWO INDUSTRIES SAVED
Factories Will Be Equipped With
New Machinery-Comblned Week.
ly Payroll of $4,000

The Williamstown and North Pow
nal mills, the two cotton manufacture
ing plants remaining to the Arnold
Print works after the sale OF the
Beaver and Eclipse mills announced
last week, will within a FIVE days pass
out Of the hands of the print works,
and become identified with the Plum
kett interests in this city
The Transcript learns today that
the sale has been closed, and it only
remains for the papers to be passed
and the parties at interest to formal
ly confirm the deal.
This completes the program finally
decided upon as the immediate solu-
ton of the Arnold print works stu
alton, absolutely diyorcing the manu-
featuring and the converting ends of
the business placing the former in
storing hands for Independent opera
ton, and by the partial liquidation
Of its assets and concentration of
it's interests, placing the print works
itself on firm foundation again
Next to the announcement of the
sale Of the two large mills in this
city, the news of the sale of the
Williamstown and North Pownal pro
perties is OF the utmost Importance
to Northern. Berkshire, especial in
view of more or less general rumors
that these mills would probably be
sacrificed to spectators. which might
well mean that they would eventually
be dismantled entirely, as 1t is said
by those who profess to know that
they could not be profitably run as
small Independent concerns.
The disposition of the property to
the Plunketts means that the mills
will be included in the property of
the Greylock Mills corporation, and
will be run under the Greylock mills
management, which insures not only
their permanence as indutrial featur-
es of the section, but If the past is
any criterion their development into
more important. features than they
have ever been in the past. The
Plunketts are conservative business
men. but extremely progressive man
ufacturers, and that the properties
now acquired by them will be placed
on a par with modern manufacturing
plants goes without saying.
While il is not many years ago thai
improvements were made at the WI
Jamestown mill, il is understood tha'
both the properties will be complete
" overhauled, and new machinery III
stalled practically throughout. .Worh
will probably begin at once, ana oy
spring both plants will be running
full.
This will mean combined payroi
of unfortunately $1,000 a week. th'
mills being of about equal capacity
each GENERATING about 10000 splndles
since the print works difficulties th'
W,lliamstown mill has been operate'
In a very limited way, while th'
North Pownal mill has been operate'
nartially in the manufacture oil yarn
II Is said that the Plunketts WI
aor,n them for a different grade o
work from that on which they nav
rrn in the past. and 1t Is reaso,n,,ap,I ~
70 suppose that the product WIN " !.
much finer and probably sini ima =
,be nroduct Of the Gerylock mills ,.,o
The mills are both supstanl.a
,hree.story and basement brick s''"s
,mres and connected with eacn
cons,derable tenement proper r,,
which is Included in the sale'-No''
Adams Transcript.