90 



iS;i)c jTavmcr's ilTontl)lij btsitor. 



one by one and are made ro follow ihcir leaders 

 down to the fool of the falls. 



Some forty men liiive hei ii engaged in wlial 

 we believe this in(i>l perilons business of log- 

 diiving. Looking npon tlietn adhering to and 

 steadying the loi;s, uitli iron rorUs in their shoe- 

 bottoms, unliistcning the janis of logs, jumping 

 from the boats to uninosc the uedges of the entan- 

 gled masses, thrown by the force of the waters- 

 jn the eddies of river ledges ; looking upon the 

 dangers whieh en\iron ihcin, we would suppose 

 that not less than one n)an a day of the company 

 wotild come to his end by drowning or other ac- 

 cident. These river men have been in this i)eril- 

 ons work now about ninety days ; and we are 

 t(dd no serious icciileiil has occurred. They live 

 in the camp, each ujan lodging in his blanket — 

 moving their loraiion from time to time as the 

 mass of lunibiT is moved down. They lose very 

 few or none of their logs, driving the river out 

 quite as clear as tiny find it. They take their 

 meals four times a day, being engaged from the 

 dawn of the morning to the dusk of the evening. 

 Their place of lodging is an open tent with the 

 hnruiug fire in the rear so as to be felt by the feet 

 — a position iu all weathers not less conducive to 

 health to the tired sleeper than a bed of down to 

 the man who encounters none of their perils. 



The owners of ilie hind in the mountains, dri- 

 vers of the first division of logs, have in uiitici- 

 jialion erected a superb steam saw ujill at Lou ell 

 for their uiamiliictuie. The bulls ami saw dust, 

 they believe, will fnriiifh fuel suflicienl for their 

 mill, enabling theju to save the slab outsides, 

 which are there worih three dollars per thousand. 

 So great and so novel an enterprise as theirs is 

 deserving of notice and conniiendation. We have 

 as yet hut begun to lastc the pecuniary prosperity 

 and value which will hereafter attach to the soli- 

 tary mountain region which takes up so much 

 room in the nonheily half of the Granite State. 



' Valuable Purciiase.— The Fall River Iron 



Works Company, which has a large establishment 

 al l''all River in this Slate, incluiling a rolling mill 

 412 feet long and 100 feet wide, a nail iuill ii'.Hi 

 feet long and 44 feet wide, and foimdry, ^4 pud- 

 dling (iinuices, au air furnace, and two I'upola fur- 

 naces, anil five steam engines, has lately purchas- 

 ed the valuable coal nfnn; near Cumherhmd, 

 knosvn as the Cliliou properly, embracing a part 

 of the ten feet coal vi'iii, to which a railroad has 

 heiMi lately opeiu.'d from the Moimt Savage Lou 

 Works, connecting it, by means of the Aloiint 

 Savagi! Railroad, willi the IJaliiuiorc ami <_)hio 

 Railroad. The Ouuilierlaiul C'i\ llian, from svhich 

 wc derive this iMtijrmaiiou, says that "the annual 

 consumplirvu of coal in the Fall River eslablish- 

 ment is 17,0.50 Ions ; and of pig ii'oii /TTjO Ions ; 

 scrap iron 5580 ions ; blooms and hilletsG"<iO ions. 

 The produce oT which is, 1750 casks of nails; 

 ].550tons of caslings ; 5'200 tons of hoop, round 

 mill srpiare irnii, iVc. &.',c. 'I'liey give employ- 

 n.iiit to ^fM bauds, and the yross valnc! of the 

 maiiiifactiiriul ;;oods lor the past year is JtHiOyH,- 

 500. Richard liurilcn, lOsip is the ai;ent and di- 

 rccior of ihis extensive eoiicern." — ft'urccsler Sjjij. 



The Fall River Company has at once entered 

 largely into the maunfactiire of railroad iron — a 

 manufaelure which until recently was introduced 

 duty free, Thi-i, wiih other establishments, will 

 soon supersede'almiist enliri ly importations from 

 ICiirope, where the price of llie article had been 

 greatly raised by the demand which the passion 

 lor railroads had there increased. 



The fiu'ililies of railroad transport is the spur 

 which gives to New lOngUmd eiiliuprise its great- 

 est impelus. Fall Itiver, without the advantage 

 of the raw material, goes into the most prolilahlc 

 iron business by pm chasing both the coal ami the 

 iron ore in the interior mountains of a distant 

 State. TIjo rough ore Is mucio ujioii tlio spot into 



iron in its crude State : and from thence both ihe 

 crude material and coal are brought by railroad 

 and water to be used and converted into all the 

 useful tools and iinpleiiienis of which this most 

 useful metal is a necessary component part. In 

 this way a business of millions is created and 

 carried Ibrward, soon earning to the owners the 

 amount of the capital invested, and giving to ar- 

 tisans and mechanics, sailors ami stevedores, ac- 

 tive and (irofitable employment. Mutual free 

 trade between Maryland and Massachusetts great- 

 ly enables both to contribute to each other's pros- 

 peritv. It is bad political economy which is afraid 

 to patroiii/e only home trade. 



The statistics of Agriculture and Manufactures, 

 collected, condensed and published by the Secre- 

 tary of Slate of Massachusetts, of the annual pro- 

 duction of the towns of that Commonwealth, 

 present many interesting facts. The town of Leo- 

 minster we have known for many years as carry- 

 rying on a profitable business of making combs. 

 The returns of 1845 shew in that litlle town a 

 business of comb making of the value of$77,- 

 400 in a year, employing 140 persons, many of 

 whom are |irobahly lemales or children. JLjst 

 of the raw material of w hich this article is made 

 is the product of our own country and neighbor- 

 IkidiI, tlie value of which is litlle when compared 

 uilli that of llic ailicle ulieii completed. Again, 

 in the same (niuiiiig town we find the manufac- 

 ture of papers principally from domestic materi- 

 als to he worth $30,000. Paper making and comb 

 making at Leominster, for more than fifty years, 

 ill all the vicissitudes of trade and manuraclmes, 

 has each been a good business pursued with in- 

 dustry. Members of Congress, judges and mag- 

 istrates have in that town been educated from the 

 proceeds of her manufacturing industry. 



The tovMi of Menilon, iii Worcester comily, if 

 we mistake not, has been deprived of her manu- 

 facturing villages upon the Blackstone, one or 

 more, incorporated into new towns. Giving up 

 the water power, the .s-iine town manufactures 

 3!),400 pairs of boots, which, with 300 pairs of 

 shoes, are valued at $58,89(), ami give employ- 

 itient to 193 tuen and boys and 33 females. 



Old Springfield, on Connecticut river, extend- 

 ing ten miles, shows a growth and prosperity 

 truly encouraging to manufacturing enterprise. 

 One of her most ingenious machinists and |irac- 

 lical operators we first knew as a blacksmith in 

 Duubarton, N. H., who probably did not see his 

 huiiilrcd dollars a year ill caidi for the hand cus- 

 tom work done by himself and father. Ingenuity 

 and perseverance have raised this mechanic to a 

 salary of $2500 and $3000 for his own personal 

 services in his profession. The old town of 

 Springfield, whose whole water power, is a small 

 mill brook ruiming into the Comieclicnt mi the 

 south side of the town, has a population of 8000; 

 Cabotville, four miles distant, has 4500, and Ulii- 

 copee, two miles further up the river of that 

 name, has .500. In this town is the United States 

 Armory, giving employment to 250 hands, and 

 making percussion muskets to the value of .'?144,- 

 000 annually. Hrass cannon cast in .Vmes' es- 

 tablishment, rifles and olhcr war implements, are 

 made, valued at $15,000. David Ames' paper 

 mills consume annually 1000 Ions of slock ami 

 make .'*100,000 worth of paper. Machinery to 

 the value of §105,000; hollow ware and castings 

 ."ylil.yOO ; ciillciy §40,000; tin and sheet iron 

 ware Sl-.'OOO; railroad cars §30,000 ; boots and 

 shoes .*28,137; and cotton and woolen goods lo 

 the value of Slj341,774, were produced by this 

 town ill tiie year 184.'). 



Wooden Ware. 



Looking over the ina[) of New England we 

 see along the southerly line of New llamjishiro 

 the interior townshi|is of Rindge, Filzvvilliain 

 and Troy against the townships of Gardner, 

 Winchendon and Royalstoii in .Massachiiselte. 

 These towns half a century ago, situated on ihe 

 rough and moimtainous region between the Mer- 

 rimack and Connecticut, were among the least 

 wealthy towns of either Slate, hi the higher 

 region including extended pine plains dividing 

 the waters, the forest grow lb was without even 

 nominal value: the largest beautiful pine timber 

 trees four or five feet in diameter, the tojis being 

 higher than musket reaching distance, were there 

 considered hut useless lumher. In all th se towns 

 there was litlle from the product of the s(-verest 

 labor that would i)roduce money. But Yankee 

 labor-saving machinery and Yankee enterprise 

 and perseverance have built up beautiful white- 

 housed villages at every walerfidl of these towns 

 in the mantiliicture of Wooden Ware. It is be- 

 lieved that the value of the wooden wares made 

 in these towns almost exclusively fioin materials 

 grown or produced in the neighborhood, on a 

 population averaging only 1000 to 15U0 souls in 

 each town, will amount to nearly half a iiiilliou 

 dollars perannum. One gentleman of Winchen- 

 don has vended ofihe.se wooden wares .$150,000, 

 and sold to a single house in the city of Ni:w 

 York .'j'40,000, in a year. — In making these wares 

 the second growth while pine, rising from the 

 seed in ihirly years, is the most valuable material 

 for tubs, pails, &c. Waste neglected lands that 

 had been sufTereil lo grow sapling pines, in some 

 instances, have yielded an unex|iected revenue 

 to their owners in the sale of the timber alone: 

 to some of these owners when Ihe timber come 

 to be used it has been matter of regret tliat thi'y 

 parted with it for comparalively a trifling con- 

 sideration. The wooden ware business of these 

 border towns has been the means of subscribing 

 for the stock ami forcing the railroad from Fiich- 

 hiirg upwards and ihroiigli the county of Chesh- 

 ire ill this Slate. The villages along its course 

 in that rough country would of them.selves nearly 

 if not quite support the railroad. To those vil- 

 lages the railroad, when completed, will give 

 such au im|ietiis, >hoW'ing that mi'aus ol' I'acili- 

 tated transport with its lessened expense are the 

 best protecfuMi to all the small mannnictnrci!, 

 as will speedily double and treble their popula- 

 tion. 



Scythes. — At the National Fair, at Washing- 

 ton, were exhibited a case of Scvtuks lioui the 

 factory of our euierprisiiiff iniglibor, R. 15. Dunn, 

 Fsip, of North Wayne. In the immediate iieigli- 

 horliood of that case, were two samples of £«§■- 

 lisli scythi'S imported the present sk'ason by a 

 house ill liallimore at a cost ol $12 38 perdnzeti 

 for the \\';ddrou corn scythes, and .'JIO 27 lor the 

 grass. The price of similar scythes upon Mr. 

 Dunn's card is ij II, and ,$8 50 per dozen. The 

 American have a higher filli^h and t^viiice better 

 wcrkmanship llian ihe Kiiglish. They were pur- 

 chased by Jacob .Albert & Co., IJaltimore. — A'e;i- 

 ncbtrl; Journal. 



aCf^ The scythes made in Wayne have been 

 extensively ordered and used by the liirmers of 

 New Hampshire in years )iast. The generous 

 manuliictiirer once furnished us asu|>ply fiir Ihe 

 year, proving that the workmen from N«w Lon- 

 don, N. M. had lost none of the skill since they 

 had embarked hi the larger establishiiient of 

 Wayne — a town which will soon become as cel- 

 ebrated for its scythes a.? irmgham was of yore 

 for its pails or Lynn for its high-heeled delicate 

 ladies' shoes. — Farnur'a .M. I'isilor. 



