FALL RIVER, MASS.
Its Manufactures, Commerce, Water Supply and Fire Service.
This city, the place for holding the eighth annual meeting of the New England Water-works Association, is one of the chief manufacturing cities in Massachusetts, and has many attractive features to recommend it to the visitors. From a manual published by Earl & Bamford of Fall River, it is learned that the city has thirty-eight corporations with a capital stock of $18,543,000. It has tifty-seven mills running 1,823,472 spindles and 41,219 looms. The number of employees is 19,195; weekly pay-roll, $118,005 ; weekly production of pieces, 175,000; yards of cloth per annum, 480,500,000 ; bales of cotton used per annum, 210,550; number of water-wheels, 11 ; number of steam engines employed, 106—total horse-power, 38,460 ; tons of coal consumed per year, 159,550; gallons of oil used, 172,350; and pounds of starch, 1,981,000.
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