In 1870 the Unconoonook Mills
employed 20 males and 8 females;
pay roll, $ 15,000; manufactured
paper to the value of $180,000.
Amoskeag Paper Mills employ 20
males and 20 females; pay roll,
$ 16,800; produce paper to the val-
ue of $ 300,000.

Manchester Gas Light Company.
Incorporated in 1841, with a capi-
tal of $ 100,000. It has laid twen-
ty-one miles of pipe, from two to
fourteen inches, extending through
different parts of the city. The
works have the capacity to furnish

300,000 feet of gas every twenty-
four hours. The city, in all de-
partments, is now consuming 50,
000,000 feet annually, and, rated at
$2,50 per 1,000 feet, it amounts
to $ 125,000. In 1854, 8,837,000 feet
were consumed; in 1870, 30,000,000
feet. The number of burners in
the mills is 10,000, in stores,
houses, &c., 9,000, besides 224
street lamps. Forty-five men are
employed, annually receiving for
their labor, $ 28,000.

W. W. Hubbard, doors, sash,
blinds, moldings and stair rails,
employs 30 men, pay roll $ 21,000;
value of productions, $42,000.
Jeremiah Hodge, window frames,
&c., employs 8 men, value of pro-
ductions, $20,000. Bisco & Denny,
card clothing, value of produc-
tions, $26,000. John Cleworth,
loom reeds, $ 8,000. B. H. Chase,
pickers, $6,000. J. Baldwin, bob-
bins, spools and shuttles, employs
52 men and boys, pay roll, $24,000,
annual value of productions, $ 55,
000. S. C. Forsaith & Co., ma-
chine works, annual productions,
$115,000. D. B. Varney, brass
foundry, annual value of produc-
tions, $80,000. There are also
three grist mills, annually grind-
ing 320,000 bushels grain, of all
kinds, valued at $290,000 ; 6,075,
000 feet boards and dimension
timber, valued at $ 128,000; news-
papers and job printing, $ 100,000;
excelsior, $ 30,000; carriages, made
and repaired, $100,000; spokes,
.$5,000; fliers, $25,000; ale, $50,
000; boots and shoes, $75,000;
granite and marble works, $75,
000, besides shops to manufacture
files, rolls, harnesses, straw goods,
window shades, tin ware, hair
restorative, cigars, confectionery,
belts, and many other shops too
numerous to mention; the whole,
in the aggregate numbering nearly
150. There are tailors, milliners,
carpenters, masons, painters, book
binders, gas fitters, blacksmiths,
&c., &c. The capital invested in
all the manufactories is $9,970,000,
employing 4,290 men, and 4,966
women and children, with an an-
nual pay roll of $3,674,000, and
producing manufactured goods to
the value of $18,108,000. The
manufactured productions have
increased, since 1870, nearly $5,
000,000. and the operatives about

1,000. But few cities in New-Eng-
land, in proportion to their popula-
tion, have exceeded these gains in
manufactories.

Professional Services, Trade and
Transportation. This branch of
biisiness includes all persons not
employed in farming or in manu-
factories and house keeping. It
means merchants, clerks, book
keepers, bankers, men employed
on railroads, day laborers, teach-
ers, lawyers, clergymen, physi-
cians, dentists, &c. The number
of persons employed in these pro-
fessions is estimated at nine per
cent of its population, or 2,700.

Resources. Productions of the