CHESTER, - Delaware County PA History

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The Company is also prepared to furnish complete drawings
and specifications for al1 kinds of machinery, and plants for
manufhcturers of cvery description, with estimates of cost for
same.
EDGE TOOU".
The firm of H. B. Black & Co., manufacturers of the celebrated
Beatty edge tools, is located on Sccond Street, west of
Market. and on the river front, and possesses a plant worth
$50,000. The works were established more than three-quarters
of a century ago, on a tributary of Ridley Creek, and the manfactory
is still under the supervision of descendants of the
original founder. The value of the out-put is $60,000; 44 men
are cmployed, and the annual wagc rol1 amounts to $25,000.
The old stamps of \"m. Beatty & Son arc still used, and the
goods have a world-wide reputation for reliability.
SASH AND PLANING ~1IL1_C;.
This business has been constantly increased since the days
when Lewis Thatcher commenced operation at the foot of
Concord Avenue. The rapid increase of buildings made a
demand for the ware of the mills, and the mills came to meet
the demand. Morton, Black & Son, J. H. Stroud & Co., Miller
Cox, and H. M. Hinkson supply this section with sashes, doors,
blinds, etc. Seventy-eight men are employed, $48,250 are paid
in wages, and 2,800,000 feet of lumber used. These mills turn
out a fine quality of work, much of which is hard wood. The
plants are valued at over $ 100,000.
BUlLDll'\GS WITH
POWER.
One of the wants of a growing city like ours is a large
building, so divided into rooms and supplied with power, as to
furnish opportunities tn persons of small means to start in
business. Such buildings would pay their projectors a good
interest, besides adding to the variety and number of our industries.
There are many branches of trade that might be introduced
into Chester, not only for the general good, but for the
special convenience of our trades people. Take the one branch
of file-cutting and re-cutting-this branch would 50011 find a