Question: Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates was founded in 1889 and by 1917 the company contained over 260,000 machines used to spin cotton and other fibers whose garriage carried up to how many spindles?

Context articles: Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates
Sympathetic root of ciliary ganglion
Edward G. Chace
Scutching
Cotton gin
Setralit
Foster Spinning Co.
Spinning mule
Spindle (textiles)
Spinning (textiles)

Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates was founded in 1889 as Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company in Adams, Massachusetts.
 The first mill built by the company was Berkshire Mill No. 1 in Adams.
 By 1917 the company was capitalized at $2,500,000 and contained over 260,000 ring and mule spindles and 6,500 looms for the production of cotton textiles, making it one of the largest cotton textile companies in the world.
 In 1929, Berkshire merged with the Valley Falls Company of Rhode Island, and became known as Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates.
 Its head was Malcolm Greene Chace of the influential Chace family of New England.
 Malcolm's descendants (his son Malcolm Jr, and grandson Malcolm III) would run the company until 2007.
The sympathetic root of ciliary ganglion is one of three roots of the ciliary ganglion, a tissue mass behind the eye.
 It contains "postganglionic" sympathetic fibers whose cell bodies are located in the superior cervical ganglion.
 Their axons ascend with the "internal carotid artery" as a plexus of nerves, the carotid plexus.
 Sympathetic fibers innervating the eye separate from the carotid plexus within the cavernous sinus.
 They run forward through the superior orbital fissure and merge with the long ciliary nerves (branches of the "nasociliary nerve") and the short ciliary nerves (from the ciliary ganglion).
 Sympathetic fibers in the short ciliary nerves pass through the ciliary ganglion without forming synapses.
Edward Gould Chase (1882–1935) was an American businessman and an entrepreneur in textile manufacturing.
 Chase led the organization of the Fort Dummer Mills in Brattleboro, Vermont, a cotton mill, and he served as the founding manager.
 He also served as a vice president and the treasurer of Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates, a predecessor of Berkshire Hathaway.
Scutching is a step in the processing of cotton or the dressing of flax in preparation for spinning.
 The scutching process separates the impurities from the raw material, such as the seeds from raw cotton or the straw and woody stem from flax fibers.
 Scutching can be done by hand or by a machine known as a scutcher.
 Hand scutching of flax is done with a wooden scutching knife and a small iron scraper.
 The end products of scutching flax are the long flax fibers, short coarser fibers called tow and waste woody matter called shive.
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.
 The fibers are then processed into various cotton goods such as linens, while any undamaged cotton is used largely for textiles like clothing.
 Seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil.
Setralit is a technical natural fiber based on plant fibers whose property profile has been modified selectively in order to meet different industrial requirements.
 It was first manufactured in 1989 by Jean-Léon Spehner, an Alsatian engineer, and further developed by the German company ECCO Gleittechnik GmbH.
 The name “Setralit“ is derived from the French company Setral S.à.r.l.
 which is a subsidiary company of ECCO, where Spehner was employed at that time.
 Setralit was officially described first in 1990.
Foster Spinning Co. is an historic textile mill on Cove Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.
 The mill was built in 1916 from red brick and had a capacity of 13,312 spindles when built.
 It was the last new textile mill built in Fall River.
 Its buildings are not particularly architecturally distinctive, representing typical early-20th century mill construction, but the complex is relatively complete, including the original main mill, boiler house, smokestack, and wooden storage building.
 In 1920 the plant was enlarged, increasing its capacity to 25,000 spindles.
 The Foster Spinning Company operated on the premises until 1962.
The spinning mule is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres.
 They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere.
 Mules were worked in pairs by a minder, with the help of two boys: the little piecer and the big or side piecer.
 The carriage carried up to 1,320 spindles and could be 150 ft long, and would move forward and back a distance of 5 ft four times a minute.
A spindle is a straight spike usually made from wood used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn.
 It is often weighted at either the bottom, middle, or top, commonly by a disc or spherical object called a whorl, but many spindles exist that are not weighted by a whorl, but by thickening their shape towards the bottom, such as Orenburg and French spindles.
 The spindle may also have a hook, groove, or notch at the top to guide the yarn.
 Spindles come in many different sizes and weights depending on the thickness of the yarn one desires to spin.
Spinning is the twisting together of drawn out strands of fibers to form yarn, and is a major part of the textile industry.
 The yarn is then used to create textiles, which are then used to make clothing and many other products.
 There are several industrial processes available to spin yarn, as well as hand spinning techniques where the fiber is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin.