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136 may be reconciled from the fact that some manufacturers make more of the higher priced chairs than others, and some increase the amount of their business by painting more or less of the chairs they manufacture. To the above, we may add the business of A. H. Brick, in painting chairs; his shop is near the depot, and he employs fifteen hands, and finishes about 50,000 chairs a year, making the whole amount of chair business of the town, nearly $600,000.

There is one Pail and Tub factory in town, owned and occupied by Amasa Bancroft. He employs twelve men and makes 8,000 nests of tubs, and 30,000 pails, annually; valued at $15,500.

The Mercantile business of the town, exclusive of flour and grain, may be set at $180,000, and is done at the present time by A. S. Wood, Stevens & Greenwood, Warren & Marean, N. B. Howe, Rugg & Osgood, Wood & Bryant, G. W. Black, G. T. Ellsworth, and L. D. Lyon.

There are in the town nine saw-mills, one grist-mill, (Nichols & Baker's, who are doing a business of $30,000 annually, in flour, grain and meal;) one bakery, one tin-shop, three blacksmith's shops, one jeweller, two public houses, four livery stables and two post offices.