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��Concord, New Hampshire.

��The great shops of the old State prison of Concord are already crowded by the works of the Conf:ord Steam -

���Heating Company, of which Hobbs, Gordon, & Co. are proprietors. A few years ago they commenced to manufacture their goods, in a small way, in a shop between Warren and Pleas- ant Streets. They made a first-class steam-heater ; and by judicious adver- tising, more especially in the pages of the " Granite Monthly," they informed the New-England public of their en- terprise, and created a demand. In- creased facilities for manufacturing were soon required, and they moved to their present quarters. Horatio Hobbs is the business manager of the firm, and E. F. Gordon is the inventive genius and mechanic. They not only make their steam-heater, but machinery, ra- diators, and stoves, all of their own in- vention.

Their steam-heaters are a perfect success. We have had one in opera- tion in our house for two years, and can speak of its merits from personal

��knowledge. During the coldest days of the last two winters, the house has been thoroughly and comfortably heat- ed ; and the coal-bill has been so much reduced, that we consider the heater has about paid for itself. Steam-heat in the house brings hither the climate of Florida or Bermuda, and makes the Northern winter endurable.

The wood-worker and machinist will find at their establishment some of the most ingenious tools and machinery. Their suspended radial drill does the work effectively of half a dozen skilled artisans. Being suspended from over- head, it gives unlimited floor - space under the column, thereby enabling the user to drill much larger castings than any other radial drill now in use. Parties having pieces to be drilled — like cylinders for locomotives, and engines of all kinds, water-wheels, blowers, and other pieces having holes in a circle — will find this machine

���very valuable, as the piece can be so located under the drill that the centre of the line of holes will correspond with the centre of the depending

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