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Title: History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: L.H. Everts & Co
Subjects: Connecticut River Valley -- History Franklin County (Mass.) -- History Hampshire County (Mass.) -- History Hampden County (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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was treasurer, witha capital of $40,000. This was increased in 1871 to $80,000, and in 1872 to$150,000, its present capital. The value of the first annual product of itsbusiness was $60,000, and fifty men were employed. The present annualproduct is $500,000, and, running at full capacity, three hundred men are em-ployed. The machine-room proper is three hundred and eighty by fifty, and thefoundry one hundred and forty by sixty, feet. In addition are blacksmith-shops,store-houses, etc. This establishment makes a specialty of water-wheels and machinery for paper-mills, and in this manufacture has won a world-wide reputation. Finishing-machines have been shipped to Scotland, France, and Germany. The establishmentwas furnished in 1878 and 1879 with an entirely new outfit of the latest improvedmachinery, and it is now one of the most complete machine-shops in the State. The present officers of the company are as follows: C. H. Heywood, President;S. Holman, Treasurer; S. F. Stebbins, Agent.
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HISTORY OP HAMPDEN COUNTY. 925 spool cotton, and Mr. Grover went to Europe in the interestsof the new company. Mr. Davis having resigned the agency,Mr. Grover was appointed in his stead in May, 1867. The officers of the company now are George W. Lyman,President; Arthur T. Lyman, Treasurer; J. N. Morrill,Clerk ; Wm. Grover, Agent and Superintendent; C. L. Far-rington. Paymaster. The position of paymaster has beenheld by C. H. Heywood, George A. Heywood, F. S. Davis,L. D. Thayer, and C. L. Farrington. Mr. Farrington, thepresent paymaster, has held the position since 1809. WilliamWiddowson, assistant paymaster, was appointed in 1872. Though this is known as a thread-mill, only about one-thirdof its product is made into thread. The remaining two-thirdsare sold either for yarn, twine, or warp. The company hasquite an extensive trade in seine twines, and often in thetwisting-room are found 40 or 50 kinds and numbers of twineand yarn at one time. The entire annual product is 727,315pounds of

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  • booksubject:Hampshire_County__Mass______History
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