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Early Manufacturing in Oregon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Evelyn H. Knowlton
Evelyn H. Knowlton
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Harvard University.
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Extract

If the whole history of American experience in establishing and operating manufacturing ventures were recorded, the number of failures would probably be found to be prodigious. Countless communities on rivers, large and small, dreamed of the time when the hum and whir of machines would bring them wealth, and many such communities actually set up factories.

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Business History Review , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , June 1944 , pp. 57 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1944

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References

1 Lomax, Alfred L., Pioneer Woolen Mills in Oregon: History of Wool and the Woolen Textile Industry in Oregon, 1811-1875. Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1941. Pp. 312Google Scholar.