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The Arlington mills; a historical and descriptive sketch (1891)

Arlington Mills · Boston [Press of Rockwell and Churchill] · leaf 88

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Mill No. i, on the river Spicket, and is connected with the packing-room by a bridge. Cotton j^. jg ^Q stories in height, three hundred feet long mill No. 2. by sixty-one feet wide, which gives a floor spaceof thirty-six thousand six hundred feet. Boththese mills are equipped, like the worsted… … i. THE ARLINGTON MILLS. 67 with the most improved machinery for putting up yarns for themarket. The cotton mills contain 62,000 spindles, of which 50,000are spinning spindles and 12,000 twisting and doubling spin-dles. Of the spinning spindles, 17,000 are for mule^^^ spinning and 33,000 for ring…

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