The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed (1912)
Walton, Perry, 1865-1941 · Boston, Mass., J. S. Lawrence · leaf 290
ucket Falls. As the in-come to the original proprietors from the canal up to 1820had hardly averaged 33>^ per cent, a year, it was easy forMessrs. Boott, Appleton, Jackson, and the others to pur-chase the six hundred shares which represented a paid incapital of sixty thousand dollars. Patrick T.… … THE STORY OF TEXTILES 203 live to see the bleak, barren place which then had less thana dozen houses have a population of twenty thousandpeople. Articles of association were drawn up under thename of the Merrimac Manufacturing Company, Dec. 1,1821, with a capital stock of six hundred shares, and…
Textile industry
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