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M. C. Henry & Co.
| Firmenname | M. C. Henry & Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York (N.Y.) |
| Straße | 79th Street |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: 79th Street und Avenue A. Mit dem Zusatz "Steam Stone Works". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 380] |
| Hinweise | Stone Works |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1868 |
Gründung |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | This business was established during the year 1868 at the present location and by the same parties. The firm has the most perfect appointments in all its parts for the speedy, economical and perfect accomplishment of the purposes for which it is designed of any works that have come under observation. They are engaged in cutting, dressing and preparing every kind of stone for market, especially those for building purposes, and they constantly keep on hand for sale large quantities of Brown, Dorchester, Ohio and Wyoming Valley Blue Stone. Their appointments for this purpose are of the most perfect kind known in the whole realm of mechanics, and consist of eight buildings, in which more than one hundred skilled workmen are constantly employed in reducing stone to the shape and conditions required by the demand. Five horses and trucks are kept busy in and about the works. Steam is used for motive power and is applied through the medium of a boiler having the capacity to run a fifty-five horse-power engine, and working an engine of forty-five horse. Their further appliances consist of one diamond saw, two gang saws and one rubing bed. The gentlemen who compose this firm are both natives of Ireland, and have been many years in this country. The firm are doing a very extensive business and justly stand high in commercial circles in their immediate vicinity, and also wherever they are known. ___ |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 380] |
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