Delaware Gazette

Delaware Woolen Mill.—The reader will have observed from a notice in our advertising columns that an establishment of the character above indicated has commenced operations in our town. At present nothing further is contemplated than Carding, for which purpose the upper rooms in the Foundry of Mr. J. C. Evans are used. But we learn a company has been organized, with the view of establishing a regular Woolen Factory, complete in all its departments, for which, in due time, suitable buildings will be erected. This is a highly commendable movement, and one that should in all possible ways be encouraged by the people of our county. Our city is gaining some prominence as a manufacturing point, and situated as we are in a region that produces an immense quantity of wool, which can as well be manufactured at home as abroad, it is a matter of surprise that our enterprising business men and capitalists should have permitted so inviting a field for investment as is afforded by the establishment of a Woolen Factory to remain so long unimproved. Nearly all the neighboring counties have an establishment of the kind, most of them on a limited scale. When ours is completed we hope to see it a model establishment, and on a scale to compare with the other prominent manufactories already in operation.