GGleanedleaned fromfrom the TurnersTurtiers Fallsjalls ReporterWeporter; ; 11872-1922872-1922 JulyJuly 1010, , 18187272 Directory of Corporations in Turners Falls KKeitheith PPaperaper CCo.o. JohnJohn Keith ......... President -The Keith boarding houses are fast approaching completion. JohnJohn Keith, Esq., President of the Keith Paper Co., personally superintends the work, and he 1sis forcing it along as quickly as possible. Work on the east wing of the mill has been commenced, and everything looks fair for a rapid consummation of the wishes of the stockholderstockholders.s. August 7 Directory of Corporations in Turners Falls KKeitheith PPaperaper CCo.o. JohnJohn Keith ......... President Wendell T. Davis . .. TreasurerTreasurer H.H.C. C. PutnamPutnam..... Superintendent -Work on the Keith Mills is progressing rapidly. Mr. H. C.C. Putnam, the Superintendent, is1s pushing things. Mr. A. C. Waters has 128128 men now in his employ, on this work alone. September 1111 -The Keith Mill has made the most rapid strides during the past two weeks, than in any similarsunilar period since its foundation was laid. October 2 -We rambled through the Keith Mill the other day, and were surprised at the immense progress made during the past few weeks. Mr. Waters has been driving things to some purpose. The bleach and boiler house is1s nearly completed, and the machine room began, and the office about being begun. The bleach house is three stories high, and is intended to hold two large engines, over those will be iron tubular tresses, with arches, forming, when done, a complete brick floor. One other item attracted special attention, the immense harness work for the shafting. This special work in under the care of Mr. Merry, and attests his ability as a workman. JanuaryJanuary 1,1, 18187373 A Glance at 18721872 Among the principal events that have affected our own town are the building of the Suspension Bridge, the completion of the Farren House and the Montague Mill, the building of the Keith MillMull and boarding houses, the Schuler Block, the new schoolhouse, the Baptist Church, WiliamWilliam P. Crocker's splendid residence, the extension of the Main Canal, the opening of the Crocker National Bank, the opening of the Crocker Institution of savings, the establishment of the Reportereporter, , the formation of the Turners Falls Lumber Company, the institution of the Good Templars and the "D. O. H." as permanent societies, the sale of the Keith Paper Co. 1872-1922 Page 1 of 107107 e.ge.g. transcription 4.2018 Griswold Mill site, the extension of First, Second and L Lstreets, streets, the building of the aqueduct to supply the Keith Mill with pure water; and the inauguration of a hundred other enterprises of a private character, all tending to the development of our vast resources. We wish them all success in the years to come. JanuaryJanuary 1515 New Mills We have have the authority for justjust saying that another mullmill site has virtually been disposed of. The site in question is the one between the Keith Mill and the bridge; it 1sis intended to build a very large millmull for the manufacture of fine book papers. Some of the most prominent paper men in the state are connected with the enterprise. Local Matters -The Keith Mill is making rapid strides. We hope soon to be able to give a full description of this noble mull.mill. -Workmen are actively engaged in digging a drain for the Keith Mill water pipes near the Clark & Chapman Machine Co.'s works. March 1212 Already several large manufacturing companies are in full operation. Among these are the Clark & Chapman Machine Company, which makes a specialty of water wheels and saw mill machinery; the Montague Paper Company, manufacturers of fine printing papers, with a daily production of 6 tons; Turners Falls Pulp Company, JohnJohn Russell Manufacturing Company, whose cutlery is world renowned; the Keith Paper Company, manufacturers of fine papers, and the Turners Falls Lumber Company. April 30 KKeitheith PPaperaper CCompany'sompany' s AqueductAqueduct It is known to almost every man, woman and child in our town, and also to many of the men in1n the trade elsewhere, that below the manufactories on the stream at Turners Falls, stands a magnificent mill for the manufacture of fine writing papers, but it is not so generally understood that this mill 1sis not surpassed by any other on this continent, and its reputation six months hence will establish the fact beyond the doubt. Holyoke at present supplies over three-quarters of the writing papers used in this country, but on the completion of the Keith Mill with its incomparable pure water supply, a rival of the most formidable character will have sprung into existence. We do not say this boastingly, but with the building, facts and figures directly before us, we feel a pride in calling our reader's attention to an enterprise of such incalculable benefit to our town. It has been asked on every hand, "Why do they delay the opening of the Keith Mill?" The question is easily answered. In the manufacture of fine writing papers, a generous supply of the purest water is indispensable, and as the nearest point where a sufficient volume could be obtained was at CColdbrook,oldbrook, the company had no other alternative but to dam the stream and lay their pipes to it. We yesterday walked the whole course from the millmull to the main stream (and they have dozens of Keith Paper Co. 1872-1922 Page 2 of 107107 e.ge.g. transcription 4.2018 tributaries besides, of which we will speak presently) and must confess that previously we had no idea of the magnitude of the undertaking. Having arrived at Coldbrook, we were cheerfully furnished all the information desired, and kindly shown about by the gentleman under whose personal supervision the undertaking 1sis conducted, and we will vouch that if any person who takes an interest in such matters desires to see the works. Mr. Keith will be only too happy to act as guide. The main spring is1s spanned with a afifty fifty foot dam, about twenty feet from which are two large stone walls, one inside of the other, not as high as the dam by a foot or so, and a pipe passes from the body of water in the pond outside to the inside well. Then the main pipe which leads to the mills commences at the opposite wall of the inner well, thus causing all the grains of sand which the water may contain (being too heavy to pass straight from the mouth of the main) to drop to the bottom of the well. The outside well is merely for the purpose of preventing the water from rising and flowing over the top of the dam, as above a certain height it flows into the well and finds an outlet by an escape pipe underground. From this brook, the main pipe,pipe,—which―which 1sis in twelve foot lengths, with a bore twelve inches in diameter, capable of carrying a volume of water 108108 inches in diameter greater than that of the Turners Falls Aqueduct, and sufficient for the household inhabitants,—followsinhabitants,―follows the course of the river, and TenTen ThousandThousand FFourour Hundred FFeeteet is required to complete the main to the mill. Over a dozen good sized springs flow the year round contiguous to the main, but as yet it has not been deemed expedient to utilize more than four of them. The water of all these springs, however, as well as that of Coldbrook, is unusually pure, and it is a matter of fact that no paper mill in the whole country will be better favored in this particular than the Keith, as scores of men engaged in the business, who have examined the water, have acknowledged. All that immense sand plain extending towards Millers Falls serves as a FFilterilter for this water, and in the case of all the springs they ooze out of the earth only a few feet from where they are tapped by the aqueduct, thus ensuring the freedom of the water from alall l vegetable matter. Another feature of this water is that the temperature is the same in JulyJuly as in January,January, and last winter when the thermometer stood at 3636° o below zero, then ponds were not frozen over. Ditches five feet deep, have for the most part, been excavated for the pipes, while well built cob work has been constructed for them when they come above the surface, and the entire main will be covered with at least five feet of sand. This covering will be so level as to form a bridal path by which the springs will be more readily reached than in their present almost inaccessible route. Between sixty and seventy men are at present employed on this work. Geo. L. Manchester having charge of the pipe laying, and the sum that it will cost the company, in dollars and cents, will be about $35,000, but you would have to add a couple figures to this sum to represent its worthworth to the mill.mull. Keith Paper Co. 1872-1922 Page 3 of 107107 e.ge.g. transcription 4.2018 JuneJune 44. -The Turners Falls Pulp Co. met on Friday last and adjourned till JuneJune 8th. -"Corporations have no souls," therefore it would be absurd to expect that the Pulp Company. The Russell Cutlery Co. and the Keith Company will plant shade trees in front of their whole streets of buildings, as required by their several deeds, or that the Turners Falls Company will insist that it shall be done. Is the clause in the deed meant to be binding only in the case of the manman—or,―or, perhaps, the poor widowwidow—who―who has a a lifetimes'lifetimes’ savings invested in a small lot in the place? -We learn from Myron A.