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62 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. manufacturing establishments — the Amoskeag Company, at Man chester, New Hampshire—to try the new fabric. A mill owned by thjs company at Hookset, in New Hampshire, was devoted to an experimental trial, and Mr. Marland received an interest for conduct ing the manufacture, which was commenced with about 200 looms. The goods were printed at Greenwich, in Rhode Island. The fabrica tion was continued at Hookset for six or seven years, with a product of about 38,000 yards per week. The goods sold in the gray at about 14 cents per yard; wool sorts, which now cost 60 cents, costing but 36 cents, and cotton about 10 cents, per pound. About 1845, certain of the stockholders of the Amoskeag Company organized the company now known as the Manchester Mills, situated in the town of that name, purchased a site and power from the Amoskeag Company, and built an extensive factory expressly for the purpose of making delaines. The cotton warps were originally made at Hookset. The first delaines were made at Manchester by carding, the wool-combers not being introduced until 1855, the Noble comber finally taking the place of the inferior combers of American invention first used. This company continued to improve its machinery and enlarge its production, which now reaches 250,000 pieces annually, of fifty yards each, the products having a reputation equal to that of any in the market. The Hamilton Woolen Company, at Southbridge, Massachusetts, was originally established for the manufacture of cloths. About 1845 the leading stockholders of this company, who had been selling agents of the Amoskeag Company, seeing the success at Hookset, resolved upon converting the mill at Southbridge into a worsted- factory. It met at first with little success, until its management was undertaken by Mr. Ballard, in 1846, who is still the treasurer of the company. The products of this mill, in printed delaines and reps, received deserved commendation at the Exhibition. The line of descent in our worsted-manufacture, which we have traced from the establishment at Ballardvale, was continued in the Pacific Mills, its first treasurer and the constructor of its works being Mr. Young, before referred to, a brother-in-law of Mr. Marland, who had gained his practical experience at Ballardvale. As this establish ment is the largest in this country, and, as it is believed, in the world, where all the branches of the worsted fabrication are carried on within the walls of a single proprietorship, its exceptional importance will justify a somewhat extended notice of its history and operations. The Pacific Mills are situated in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on the Merrimac River, twenty-six miles from Boston. The enterprise was