Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1871 — A Manufacturing City. [ARTICLE]

A Manufacturing City.

Rockville, Conn., sixteen miles east of Hartford, a rhanufacturing city of 5,000 people, with water-works, gas, opera house, banks, churches, schools, etc., has every aspect of abounding life and thrift. Schneipsit Lake, raised twenty-three feet and covering I, acres, is the immense reservoir of motive power for the machinery of sixteen manufactories grouped within 3,000 yards, whose annual product is $3,000,000. Belding, Bros. & Co. have added a large amount of new machinery to their sewing silk factory here, under the management of A. N. Belding, so as to increase its product to $500,000 a year, and the three mills they control in Mansfield will produce ns much more, so that they are -by tar the largest manufacturers and wholesale dealers of sewing silk and machine twist in this country. Their houses are—managed atNo. 325 Broadway, Ne\y York, by M. M. Beld ing and C. D. Wood ; at No. 70 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, by D. W. Belding, and at Nos. 50 and 5s W abash avenue, CJueago, by 11. 11. Belding, W. Ap Stanton and C. 11. Allen. Their sales have largely increased the past year. During the past eighteen months they have distributed to their retail customers over 3,000 of their unrivalled patent silk-cases for the display oi various colors, at a cost of SIB,OOO. They are now running a newly-in-vented machine for cleaning finished silk and making it perfectly even and glossy. From nothing, in twelve years they have grown to be the eontroling silk house in the Union, by combining enterprise, perseverance, and skill with the inflexible rule of making all their goods perfect, and warranting all silk with their label to correspond with its mark in length, strength and weight. Their motto is, the best silk is the cheapest, and the public say Amen.