Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-02
SPOTLIGHT ON
 COUNTY INDUSTRIES
Some Of the Feature Points of New london and Windham County Mills and Factories.

Enough bed comfortables are made in New London. Uncasville, and Fitchville to give one to every man in 3,10O regiments of thousand men each.
 Norwich has the only factory in Connecticut and one of the six or eight in the United States devoted entirely to the manufacture of win dow display fixtures. It's product is found wherever civilization goes.
 Willimantic boasts the largest in- dividual wage distributor of New Lon don and Windham county mills. It's payroll exceeds all other manufactur- ing plants of the town put together, significant reason for the title of the Thread City.
 Monograph pins and similar arti- cles are products that were added to Putnam's list in the last year.
 Among the unusual things in the va riety of New London products are siz- ing and paste. brooms, tooth prepara- tions, and curtains.
 The largest shipper in the two coun- ties is credited to Norwich. This plant would require about 1000 cars per year to ship out it's thousands of tons of paper.
 Textile mills in Putnam and inn mediate vicinity produce over 100 million yards of cotton and woolen goods. A large part of the cotton cloth is sent to China.
 In 1910 when Norwich cotton manu- lecturers reported only about three quarters time and sixty per cent. of machinery running, they yet produced grand total of 51,200,0 900 yards of cotton cloth of all varieties.
 New London manufactures auto mobiles. Norwich makes auto horns and other fixtures in large variety.
 On the roster of Norwich industries is bleaching. dying and finishing plant whose reputation for yards of cotton goods produced puts it among the leaders of the country Its pro- duction approaches 70 million yards
 The city of New London beats both counties in manufacture of machinery. This includes printing presses, cotton gins, ice machines, and motors.
 New London has the only firm in Eastern Connecticut that makes seam less grass and copper tubes, tubing and pipes.
 The only plant in Connecticut for the manufacture of files is located in Norwich. From their product last year they could have put a fringe of files on a picket fence over 225 miles long, placing them i foot apart.
 Over 1-2 million yards of worsteds and woolen cloth were turned out by the Norwich mills in 1910
 silk and velvet that totalled 3,1eo, 900 yards were the product of Nor wich mills in the last year.
 Shipbuilding and other marine work disDurses something over S125,- 900 in the New London payrolls.
 Shingle stains that sell where merit counts as far as Australia and New Zealand not to mention Vancouver and the Pacific coast, are among the Nor Wich products.
 Three manufactures with annual payrolls of over $500.G00 and eight with payrolls of over $250.000 are among the industries of the two counties.
 The immense total Of 147 million ys'ds of cotton goods of various kinds is annually bleached finished, dyed and printed in four plants in Wind ham and New London counties. This is equal to S3,525 miles. enough to wrap around the earth at the eauater and then from pole to pole. with enough over tO leave a tail of 90, 900 nales floating in space.
 Jewelry. mangles paper machinery. silk braided fish line. dry batteries and