Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 1911
(Data recorded on panoramic postcard reproduced above)
Statistics:
- Number of looms—24,200
- Number of spindles—662,000
- Length of cotton & worsted cloth woven per annum -- 237,000,000 yards (217,000,000 m)
- Number of bags woven per annum—1,500,000
- Number of turbine water wheels—30
- Power furnished by wheels -- 16,290 hp (12,147 kW)
- Number of boilers—185
- Rated horsepower of boilers—27,750
- Number of steam engines—12
- Power furnished by engines -- 15,100 hp (11,260 kW)
- Number of steam turbines—5
- Power furnished by turbines -- 26,678 hp (19,894 kW)
- Number of alternating current generators—14
- Power developed by generators -- 41,175 hp (30,704 kW)
- Number of electric motors—583
- Power of motors -- 27,702 hp (20,657 kW)
- Oil consumed per annum—75,000 US gal
Size:
- Floor space in buildings -- 5,844,340 sq ft (542,957 m2)
- Floor space in buildings -- 137 acres (0.6 km2)
Wages:
(Table showing amount of wages paid per year at end of 10 year periods)
- 1831 -- $36,298
- 1840 -- $74,239
- 1850 -- $487,005
- 1860 -- $633,680
- 1870 -- $1,107,428
- 1880 -- $1,604,322
- 1890 -- $2,435,481
- 1900 -- $2,772,611
- 1910 -- $6,176,353
- 1911 -- $6,370,089
Total amount paid in wages from 1831 to 1911: $114,753,340
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