John’s River has its rise in Jeffer-
son and Carroll and passes through
this town in a westerly direction,
thence west through Dalton, and
discharges its waters into the Con-
necticut. In its passage, it furnish-
es some good water power.

Village. The village is situated
on John’s River, and on the line
of the White Mountain Extension
of the Montreal Railroad. It is
growing quite rapidly, and is the
seat of considerable business.
There are two church edifices, one
large graded school-house, with
three departments, two grist-mills,
two lumber mills, one sash and
blind shop, one pail mill, wool
carding and planing mill, printing
office, ten or twelve stores, of all
kinds, one good hotel, one lawyer,
three physicians, about 125 dwell-
ing houses, and 700 inhabitants.
There are some nice private resi-
dences, and, twenty-five years
hence, many of the streets will be
beautifully shaded. The views,
from this village, of the mountains
in Carroll and Jefferson, are very
fine.

Employments. The inhabitants
are largely engaged in lumber
business, although farming is an
important branch. Three potato
starch mills annually manufacture
starch to the value of $ 19,400; one
job printing office, $1,000; Snow &
Pillsbury, doors, sash and blinds,
$ 10,000; Libbey & White, wool
carding, $ 2,000; Smith & Walker,
grist-mill, flour and meal, $ 20,300;
A. L. & W. G. Brown & Co., meal,
$ 6,000; Quimby & Allard, lumber,
$ 12,000; G. W. & N. W. Libbey,
lumber, $ 16,000; L. D. & L. T. Ha-
zen, lumber, $ 25,000; Burns &
Brooks, lumber, $ 35,000; Charles
Libbey & Co., lumber, $ 50,000; A.

L. & W. G. Brown & Co., lumber,
planing, matching and grooving,
$ 370,000; Messrs. Brown & Co.
have the largest lumber establish-
ment in the State. Tlieir mill has
two roofs, but the buildings are all
open, and connected; it is about
250 feet long, and 160 feet wide.
Their motive power is three loco-
motives of 200-horse power, and
one water wheel with 140-horse
power. When there is sufficient
water, this wheel will carry near-
ly all of the machinery in the mill.
The railroad passes along by the
side of the mill, where the lumber
is loaded on to the cars to be trans-
ported to Boston, or to other sec-
tions of the country, and to their
lumber sheds, which are three in
number, and each 150 feet in
length.

In and around the mill, they em-
ploy about 120 hands. There are
two large circular saws, for saw-
ing boards and timber, one gate
saw for sawing long timber; three
shingle machines, two power edg-
ers, one large planer for matching
and grooving, three small planers,
one Daniels’ planer for dressing
large timber, two saws for cutting
off logs, two trimming saws for
trimming boards and planks, and
two slab saws. This mill is now
(1873,) daily sawing 40,000 feet of
long timber, 14,000 shingles, 1,000
clapboards, 35,000 laths, and plan-
ing and matching 10,000 feet of
long timber, making the annual
production 12,000,000 feet long
timber; 4,200,000 shingles, 300,000
clapboai'ds, and 10,500,000 laths;
the whole being valued at $350,
000. They also annually cut and
sell masts and spars to the value of
$ 20,000. The labor is all done on a
systematic plan, and everything