History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) (1922)
Boston : Frank P. Bennett · leaf 91
hase as is possible by contract, butvery often dealers take the chance of buyingup wastes for the whole year and taking achance on playing the market as regards theselling. In the cotton waste trade, rovingsand spinning waste are essentially as valu-able as the raw material. The custom hasarisen… … Old Manchester Mill, Manchester, N. H. 88 CHAPTER NINETHE MARVELOUS PRODUCTS OF THE CARPET MILLS OF AMERICA Carpet making in the United States, as abusiness proposition of any importance datesback only to the time when the first carpetfactory was established in Philadelphia in1 760. Before that…
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