Besides the powder-mills, the firm owns over two thousand five hun-
dred acres of land, that stretch for a distance of three miles on both
sides of the stream ; and on the property there are three woolen-mills,
a cotton-mill, a merchants' and grist-mill, and a population of nearly
four thousand persons. The aggregate fall of the various water-powers
of the firm on the Brandywine, including two which are as yet un-
improved, is ninety-one feet. The farms attached to the works are in a
high state of cultivation, and the roads are all macadamized for ease of
transportation. The buildings on the estate are mostly of stone, and
very substantial, and the machinery is of the best and most costly
character.
The Luzerne County mills liave about seven hundred acres of land on
the Big Wapwallopen creek, with an aggregate fall of over one hundred
feet, and a capacity for twenty-five thousand pounds of blasting powder
per daj\ The Pennsylvania canal and the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg
railroad pass through a part of the property.
The Schuylkill and Northumberland County mills, situate near the
railroad connections of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad, have about
nineteen hundred acres of land, and an aggregate water-power of one
hundred and seventy-five feet fall ; mining powder for the collieries
being largely made.
