People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — Eight Thousand to Be Idle. [ARTICLE]

Eight Thousand to Be Idle.

Boston, July 19. —The Amoskeag mill, which will close for the month of August, employs 8,000 hands. It has a pay roll of 8225,000 month and uses 6,000,000 pounds of cotton per week. Other mills are likely to follow suit. The Amoskeag mill is the largest producer of manufactured cotton in the world. ,