Satinets,
Cassimeres,

Table showing the Quantity and Classification of Woolen Machinery in New York and New England.

Cot'n warp cloths & carp.
Stocking yarn & hosiery,
Worsted and woolen yarn,
Blankets and flannels,
Delaine,.

Carpets,.

Cashmeretts,

Shawls,

Feltings,

Negro cloths and jeans,
Linsays and Dometts,
Sundries,*

Total No. of sets,

No. of establishments,

40

12

10

81

58

22

165 112

33

44

285

95

82

6

30

74

76

11

20 103

31

33

33

74

26

18

9

148

The above classification is not strictly accurate, as it is impossible in some

mills to say how many sets are on each description.

*Those classed sundries are very small.

IRON MANUFACTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Compiled from the "Iron Manufacturer's Guide, by J. P. LESLEY, Secretary of the American Iron Association, and published by authority of the same.”

CHARCOAL FURNACES.-The North Adams Iron Company's Charcoal Hot-blast Furnace, on the Hoosic river, J. E. Marshall agent, North Adams, P. O., Berkshire county Massachusetts, was built in 1845, is 8 by 31 inside, and made in forty-five weeks of 1856, 1,916 tons of iron for the Albany Iron Works, out of brown hematite from the Adams' bank 2 1-2 miles south-west, mixed with Lanesborough (14 miles south,) Richmond and Amenia ores.

The Cheshire Iron Furnace Company's Charcoal Warmblast Steam Furnace, managed by È W. Thayer, Cheshire, P. O., Berkshire county Massachusetts, was built in 1848, about 9 feet across the bosh by 40 high, and made in half of 1856, 686 tons of metal out of brown hematite ore from its own banks east and west of it within a mile.

The Briggs Iron Furnace Company's Charcoal Warmblast Steam Furnace, in Lanesborough, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, 5 miles west of Pittsfield, and 1 1-2 miles across a mountain west of the North Adams railway, Daniel Day treasurer and agent, was built by Samuel Smith of Boston, in 1847, is 11 1-1 feet wide by 42 feet high, and made in twenty-six weeks of 1857, 1,098 1-2 tons of soft iron for Worcester, Springfield, Lawrence and Boston, out of brown hematite ores from its own banks 3 1-2 miles west. It commenced making hot-blast iron

in 1848.

The Lenox Iron Works Company's Charcoal Hot-blast Furnace, W. A. Phelps treasurer and agent, Lenox, P. O., Berkshire county Massachusetts, was first built as long ago as 1765, 23 feet high with one tuyere. In 1839 it was rebuilt, 9×35 1-3, with 3 tuyeres, and made in fortytwo weeks of 1857, 1,772 3-4 tons of strong foundry metal for Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester, Boston, Staf

ford, and Troy, out of brown hematite ore from its own bank, 4 miles west. This furnace made in the good year 1851, 2,081 tons.

The Stockbridge Iron Works Company's Charcoal Furnace, No. 1 (No. 2 is anthracite,) situated three miles from Stockbridge village and one mile from the Housatonic post office, R Ray agent, (G. B. Cartwright agent in Boston,) was built in 1835, is 10 feet wide across the top of the bosh, and made until 1855, when it stopped, about 1,200 tons, in thirty-five weeks, per annum.

The Richmond Iron Company's Charcoal Warm-blast Steam and Water Furnace, on the Western railroad, five miles northeast of the State Line, and eight miles southwest of Pittsfield, John H. Coffin agent, Richmond, P. O., Berkshire county, Massachusetts, is 9 feet in the bosh by about 31 feet high, and made in forty-three weeks of 1856, 2,242 1-2 tons of hard carwheel iron, which stood a strain of 24,222 lbs. to the square inch, out of brown hematite ores from the Richmond and West Stockbridge mines owned by the Company.

The Vandusenville Charcoal Hot-blast Furnace, at the junction of the Pittsfield and the Albany branches of the Housatonic railroad, and two miles and a half from Great Barrington, owned by the same Richmond Iron Company as the last, was built in 1834 and rebuilt in 185?, is 9 feet wide across the bosh by 32 feet high, and made in fortyone weeks of 1855, 2,395 1-4 tons of mostly hard carwheel metal out of brown hematite ore from the Richmond bank ten miles, and the West Stockbridge bank seven and a half miles north of the furnace. Steam power was to have been given to it in 1857.

BLOOMERIES AND FORGES.-Westford Forge, situated at Forge Village on the Stony Brook railroad, seven miles from Lowell towards Groton, James Prescott superintendent, at Forge Village, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, Mr. Ainsworth treasurer of the company, George Stark agent, was rebuilt and enlarged in 1854 to contain 3 heating furnaces, 2 forge fires and 3 hammers driven by water, and makes anchor palms and carriage axles.