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Clark Thread Company
| Firmenname | Clark Thread Company |
| Ortssitz | Newark (New Jersey) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Baumwollspinnerei |
| Anmerkungen | Auf Seite 542 unter Baumwollfabriken aufgeführt. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 218+542] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1865 |
Gründung |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Erected in 1865, at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars. The main factory building is three hundred and twenty feet long, one hundred and five feet wide, and five stories in height, requiring in its construction three and a half millions of brick. Adjacent thereto is the Picker and Spool Turning house, and in the immediate vicinity are the Dye and Bleach houses, with an ample supply of pure river and clear spring water. The rear of the premises is bounded by the Passaic river, having a wharf five hundred feet long, at which vessels of three hundred tons can load and discharge. The Spinning department contains twenty-five thousand spindles, with all the necessary preparation for producing the highest quality of yarns, and is separated by a thick wall and double iron doors from the Thread Mill, which has room for fifty thousand spindles, with all the requisite winding, polishing, and spooling machinery. The first story of both these departments is sixteen feet in height and the walls three feet in thickness. The machinery, of the newest construction, and part of it protected by patents held by the Company, is from the best shops of this country and England, and is propelled by two coupled condensing engines of upward of seven hundred horse-power, supplied with steam from a range of ten tubular boilers. The entire establishment, when fully equipped, will cost $750.000, and employ from one thousand to twelve hundred persons. This splendid factory, the largest and probably the most complete of the kind in the United States, is owned by a Joint Stock Company, of which the principal stockholders and officers are Peter Kerr and George A. Clark, who for many years were celebrated manufacturers of Spool Cotton in Paisley, Scotland, where their respective firms have carried on the same business for above half a century. As the machinery is of the best and newest description and the managers men of large experience in this specialty, there is no reason why the Company should not produce Thread equal to the best imported, and even better adapted to the requirements of Sewing Machines. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 218+542] |
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