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Wissahickon Mills
| Firmenname | Wissahickon Mills |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Papierfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Eigentümer: Charles Magarge & Co. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 95] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1858 |
Bau einer zweiten Papierfabrik |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Are celebrated for making fine Book Paper. These consist of two mills, the original one, formerly a merchant flour mill, and another, built in 1858, at an expense of about $80.000, both of which are provided with all the appliances of first-class Foudrinier Mills. The main building of the new mill is seventy-eight feet six inches by fifty-four feet deep, two stories high and attic, with a rotary boiler house, connected as a wing, twenty-six feet by fifteen feet six inches; a machine room, one hundred and ten feet by twenty-eight, with a wing on the rear, twenty-eight by fifteen feet; an engine room, seventeen feet by forty; a boiler house, forty by twenty-five feet, and chimney, one hundred feet high, ten feet at base, and five feet at top. The Foudrinier Paper machine is seventy-two feet long and sixty-two inches wide, and supplied with three 36-inch diameter iron dryers, and ten 8-inch diameter copper dryers, and two sets of calender rods. There are three washing and five beating engines of large capacity. The machinery is propelled by a Corliss engine of eighty horse power, and the mill is supplied with pure spring water by means of costly reservoirs on the hills adjacent, from which the water is conducted into the vats by twelve hundred feet of 8-inch pipe and nine hundred feet of 6-inch pipe. Some of the reservoirs are fifty feet higher than the factory. The weekly consumption of rags in this mill is about thirty-three thousand pounds, and the production about twenty-four thousand pounds of paper. The expenses per week of these two mills for raw material and labor are about five thousand dollars. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 95] |
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