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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
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oth these rapid streams gave goodwater-powers for nine months in the year naturally, and that of theMumford river has been increased very materially by a system of arti-ficial-storage reservoirs, as will be specified later. Between the tworivers rises Northbridge hill, a broad ridge with its highest point nearthe middle, falling somewhat towards the north ; the Whitin (pro-nounced White-in ) Shops are at the south end of the hill, andmainly on the north side of the Mumford river. The Whitin water-power was first developed by the erection of Samuel Terrys saw millin 1727 or 1728. There was iron ore at hand, as in 1700 the town ofMendon, which at that time included Northbridge and Whitinsville,voted that no person should carry any iron ore out of or from the towncommon under a penalty of 20 shillings for each load, 10 shillings togo to the informer and 10 to the town treasury, and an iron workswas established at Mumford Falls in 1727 by Samuel Terry, clerk of ii-i- ■ ui..;...il;Mll!.l
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7 2 SUCCESSFUL SHOP MANAGEMEXT. Harrington, Mass. The next year Terry sold the saw-mill and iron-works to Hugh Hall of Boston for £.2\2, gold ; there was at that daya depreciated colonial currency, so that for a long time all statementsof sale contained two numerical values, one currency and the othergold. Hall sold to Gershom Keys, trader, of Boston, in 1732, fory^2i2, gold, and in 1733 Keys sold all the land and the saw-mill andhalf the iron-works to Jonathan Bacon, gent., of Bedford, for ^^368,gold. Keys soon bought back Bacons interest in the iron-works, andsold his whole interest__^therein, this time half to Joseph Scott, brazier,of Boston, and half to Samuel Grant, upholder (promoter?), alsoof Boston, making the sales in 1735 and 1736 respectively, and re-ceiving the total sum of only ^123, gold, for the entire iron-works,(rrant and Scott made additions, and at the time of the next sale,which was of Grants half-interest, in 1736, to John Merritt, mer-chant, of Boston, for ^168,

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