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Title: New Bedford, Massachusetts : its history, industries, institutions, and attractions
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Pease, Zeph. W. (Zephaniah Walter), b. 1861 New Bedford Board of Trade Hough, George A Sayer, William L. (William Lawton), 1848-1914
Subjects: Industries -- Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: (New Bedford, Mass.) : Published by order of the Board of Trade
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s in the six great mills is almost be^ond imagination.even when aided by figures and descriptions. There is one singleupright beam Corliss engine of three hundred horse power, one pairof engines of eight hundred horse power, one pair of eleven hundred,and one monster pair of two thousand horse power. Visitors to thecentennial exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 will remember the greatengine which was among the marvels of that collection of wonders,but though they could scarcely comprehend it, at that verv time alarger engine was running in New Bedford. This enormous piece ofmachinery has a stroke of ten feet; the weight of its flv wheel isabout fifty tons, and other parts are in like proportion. The products of the Wamsutta mills are some seventy or eightyvarieties, in all grades and widths, of fine shirtings, cambrics, muslins,lawns, momie cloth, sateens, and cretonnes, and bleached and brownsheetings, plain, twilled, and double warp, in all widths up to onehundred twentv-four inches.
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INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 153 Of the quality of Wamsutta shirtings and sheetings it is hardlynecessary to speak. Beginning with a high standard, it has been theconstant aim not only to maintain it but to elevate it. During thewar, when so many manufacturers sacrificed their good reputationsby abandoning their standards and trying to make the most clothpossible with the least cotton, the Wamsutta scrupulously kept up thequalit) of its goods in every particular. These goods alone madeWamsutta a household word in almost every quarter of the globe.The mills consume weekly, when in full operation, four hundred fiftybales of cotton, making an annual consumption of over twenty thou-sand bales, out of which is manufactured twenty-four million vardsof cloth,— thousands upon thousands of miles ! Great care is exercised in the selection of cotton from which thiscloth is made, especially with regard to the staple. Everv bale under-goes a rigid inspection. Much of the cotton used by the Wamsutta

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