The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel

43 Adams manufacturing company’s, at Braytonville, and the S. Blackinton company’s, at Blackinton, together employing 725 operatives, producing each year 1,000,000 yards of goods, cassimci 5, c ic\ 10 s and worsteds, and with an aggregate annual pay-roll of $216,000; . . ... Two print-works,-the Arnold print-works w.th four cloth-mills, the North Pownal, Williamstown, Beaver and Eclipse mills, and the Freeman manu- facturing company, distributing annua y < among their 2,970 employeesanci every year wea ing and printing 100,000,000 yards of cloth; Two gingham mills,-the Johnson manufacturing company’s and the Greylock manufacturing com- pany’s, employing 725 hands at a yearly cost ot $240,000 and producing annually 6,000,000 > ai c. ginghams; Six shoe shops,- the C. T. Sampson manufactur- ing company’s, where, in 1869, Mr Sampson w>th characteristic boldness, closed the doors of hlfac tory agaiMt striking Cnspm^d pu «1 .P^,^ Chinese workmen; H. 1. Cady , • Canedy & Wilkinson's and the two shops ° — Cady & Co., employing (not inducing W. G. Cady & Co. factory) 1,400 operati -, • monthly pay-roll of S56.«» and producing 6,15° cases of shoes per month.