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Title: Inland Massachusetts illustrated. A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses. To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., The Elstner Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t to the Comptroller of the Currency, of dateSeptember 30, 1889:— LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $150,000 00 Surplus fund 52,000 00 Undivided profits 8,8oS g6 National bank notes outst.Tudin;; 35,320 00 Dividends unpaid 6,894 00 Individual deposits subject to clieck 127,712 52 Demand certificates of deposit 15,812 00 Due to other national banks 284 69 RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $296,620 49 Overdrafts secured and unsecured . 123 52 U. S. bonds to secure circulation 40,000 00 Other stocks, bonds, and mortgages Due from approved reserve agents Due from other national banks Checks and other cash items Bills of other banks Specie Legal tender notes Redemption fund with U. .S. Treasurer(5 per cent, of circulation) Total $396,832 17 President Gaylord is a native of South Iladley and Cashier Doten of Western Afassachu-setts. The board of directors is composed of leading influential citizens. 11,022 .SO 25.970 76 2,499 7 25S 90 ,494 00 9.>42 «3 7,900 00 1,800 00 Total $396,832 17
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CHICOPEE FALLS TS a Nourishing village of 4,000 or more inhabitants, situated on both^ sides of the Chicopee river, one-and-a-half miles above its mouth andfive miles north of Springfield. A bridge just below the first fall (nowconverted into a dam ) connects the two halves of the place, and pedes-trians passing to and fro have a charming view of the river, the fall overthe dam, and the rapids below—checked by another dam at a lower level.There is ample water power, utilized by numerous factories whence areturned out a great volume and variety of products, including bicycles,tricycles, agricultural implements, machinists tools, firearms, cottongoods, and light machinery. Excellent police and fire departments, welllighted and cleanly streets, four first-class public schools, a parochialschool, a sufficiency of churches, and a pervading air of industry and thriftcreate a favorable impression that is confirmed by a stroll through thefactories and a view of the suburbs with their handso

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