SHor BusINrss m NArrck.-A correspondent oil
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SHoR BUSINESS IN NATrcK.-A correspondent OF


he LosCeu Courier, writing from Natick, gives the
following account Of the shoe manufacturing in that
town. From the LIST Of April 1874 to the lst Of April


s4 there manufactured in this town 6l 200 pairs
o shoes and $50 pairs Of boots valued in all at about
$4,000. The number Of males employed, 677 number
offemales 426 making in all 1000 Of them,
however, do reside here The paid for labor
though ascertaned by the cannot be less


than Si2s 900; distributed as to make about Sios goo
to the males and about S2 900 to the females; being
sla9 average all engaged about $ls7 to each male
and $40 to each female This branch Of business second
in the State in importance amount has increa
sed with great rapdity during the last few years in this
place. In 1885, only four personswere engaged as man
uacurers; nearly fifty are so engaged then less
than 900 pairs Of boots and shoes manufactured;
now more than $40 900 pairs manufactured In 1896
and 1887 when the statistics collected, about 25O
600 pairs Of boots and shoes manufactured valued
ab-ut 5000 00 and about 400 persons were engaged
In the manufacture of them. The business was intro
duced here about 1880; and you see what has been
done in the short space Of fifteen years In 1880 our
population ess than nine hundred and in
thirteen hundred and is supposed to be more than
seventeen hundredv