Fer the Enquirer Statistics of Lowell.
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Mr. Eo1roR :-Tae statistics of the Lowell Manufacturing c om oa1ies f,r ths year ending Jan. l. 1917, present mss of results which at once illustrate the magnitude of active cap- ital, the energetic inlnstry, and the enor. mors productiveness which have within 30 kyears turned barren, tenantless spot into a eity of more than 5000 souls.

 The table gives returns from l2 principal Preparations, wh ose aggregate Capital is $si0, is5),0)a. The largest capital stock is that o! the M.rrimac Co - S2)o 900. That csm pany make cotton cloth. and the we'll knewn Mer. simac Prints. At another time, an account of of their works. and of the process o: Calico manufacture may affard your readers some en- .srtainment, In B mills these companies run 253,45s spndles and 7.555 looms. The week ly product is .752 900 yds. of Cotton Clsth 20,lOoyds Woollen Cloth, 6,5oo yards of Car peting.

 3oo.0oo yard, of Calico are printed weekly The amount of Cotton consumed per week is 59l.oOO lbs, and of wool 43.00O There are annually employed in the various processes l.l I JUL IDS. or Starcn, iU0 Dols. FlouT, oF' $50 gallons Oil and 32,O0o lbs lard There were employed during the last year 1915 fs- males, and 3.34O males total Il ,255 persons : The average wages of females are, clear of bard, s2 per week, men, clear of board 80 cts per day.

 The " Lowell Machine Shop" can furnish machinery complete for mill of 5000 spind- les, and likewise erect the mill, all in the space ofthrec months.

 g The Savings Bank, had, in the year ending April go 1916, received from 4 .679 deposltors, chiefly operatives in the mills. $750,645. The amount of wages paid the operatives, annually exclusive of board is nearly one million. eight hundred thousand dollars.

 Twelve Corporations in Lowell paid for the gear 1916 all aggregars tax of $64 4,55s go. Of this amount the Merrimac Co.,, paid $1l 200 1; the Lawrence O., s,40o, and the Massa- chusetts Co.,. $6,74o

 1tis chiefly by means of the great revenue thus yielded, Lowell is enabled to support her magnificent system of free schools. A year or two since when the population was 23,ooo. the appropriation to public schools, was So5 900

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