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Identifier: newbedfordmassac00peas (find matches)
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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the owners and builders in 1882 as a forwarding and distributing depotfor the companys coals for the local mills and to inland dealers andmanufacturers. The latter traffic is carried on through cars of theOld Colony Railroad Company to all points on its main branches andconnections. The main pocket is two hundred ten feet long and forty-five feethigh, with a capacity of seventy-two hundred tons. Vessels of theheaviest draft that can come into the harbor discharge at each side,by means of derricks, shears, and engines. The companys steamers, of seventeen hundred thirty tons, work
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INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 283 four hatches at once, and discharge, ordinarily, in ten hours, althoughthe work has been accomplished in seven and three-quarters hours. At the head of the north side of the dock is a shipping pocketone hundred feet long, where vessels of the same tonnage as theabove can discharge either into cars, the pocket, or large storagebins. There are three of these bins, of fifty-three hundred, forty-twohundred, and seventy-five hundred tons, respectively, which areintended to hold the winter supply, when the weather renders uncer-tain the arrival of cargoes from the companys shipping points atPort Richmond, on the Delaware, and Point Liberty, New Yorkharbor. The total storage capacity is twenty-six thousand tons. When unloading one of the companys large steamers, eighty-six people are engaged on the premises. Much of the coal is brought here in barges, towed by powerfultugs, and in the largest schooners. The arrivals in 1887 were as fol-lows ; Sailing vessels, 12

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