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4°4 HISTORY OF AMESBURY.<br />

STATISTICS OF THE CARRIAGE BUSINESS IN AMESBURY AND<br />

Names.<br />

R. F. Briggs & Co.,<br />

James Hume,<br />

Foster Gale,<br />

A. M. Huntington,<br />

E. S. Felch,<br />

William W. Smart,<br />

A. M. Parry,<br />

T. W. Lane,<br />

D. E. Gale & Co.,<br />

A. P. Boardman,<br />

E. S. Lane,<br />

Seth Clark, jr.,<br />

Charles Rowell & Son,<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e W. Osgood,<br />

John Hume,<br />

C. A. Burlingame.<br />

C. N. Dennett,<br />

Ge<strong>org</strong>e J. Hunt,<br />

Samuel Rowell,<br />

F. D. Parry,<br />

Locke & Jewell,<br />

William G. Ellis,<br />

Charles E. Stone,<br />

SALISBURY MILLS FOR l88o.<br />

, 200,000<br />

170,000<br />

38,000<br />

45,000<br />

80,000<br />

45,000<br />

50,000<br />

30,000<br />

15,000<br />

45,000<br />

23,000<br />

80,000<br />

40,000<br />

65,000<br />

50,000<br />

15,000<br />

50,000<br />

20,000<br />

46,576<br />

50,000<br />

63,000<br />

20,000<br />

1800<br />

1200<br />

450<br />

500<br />

500<br />

420<br />

450<br />

420<br />

140<br />

500<br />

325<br />

660<br />

400<br />

*475<br />

500<br />

150<br />

300<br />

220<br />

620<br />

817<br />

600<br />

600<br />

200<br />

e s<br />

125<br />

52<br />

20<br />

19<br />

45<br />

26<br />

25<br />

20<br />

15<br />

21<br />

16<br />

'<br />

30<br />

25<br />

25<br />

30<br />

15<br />

25<br />

16<br />

32<br />

25<br />

23<br />

15<br />

1856<br />

1859<br />

1868<br />

1867<br />

1859<br />

1877<br />

1875<br />

1874<br />

1878<br />

1867<br />

1869<br />

1860<br />

1873<br />

1870<br />

1S69<br />

1871<br />

1873<br />

1876<br />

1870<br />

1859<br />

1867<br />

1875<br />

The wheel factory <strong>of</strong> Locke & Jewell at Patten's Hollow<br />

was established in 1867 and is doing a large business in manu-<br />

facturing wheels and carriage parts, and have recently added to<br />

their other branches the manufacture <strong>of</strong> carriages. The whole<br />

amount <strong>of</strong> business for 1880 was $100,000, and the number <strong>of</strong><br />

workmen employed was fifty-two. During the year they have<br />

manufactured six hundred carriages.<br />

Mr. William E. Biddle & Company, <strong>of</strong> <strong>Amesbury</strong>, commenced<br />

the manufacture <strong>of</strong> carriage parts at their planing mill in Salis-<br />

bury, and in 1880 the whole amount <strong>of</strong> their business was<br />

* Including one hundred and fifty sleighs.

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