Scranton Republican,
February 21, 1877
Wayside Notes
New Rolling Mills at Providence
No one, in passing up the boulevard, can fail to be impressed with the
Theban-like obelisk, covered with hieroglyphics, standing at the
never-idle Capouse Works of Pulaski Carter at Capouse, Providence.
These works were the first started in Pennsylvania where scythes were
made for the trade. The Indian mound Capouse, from which the works were
named by Mr. Carter, lie between Providence and Scranton, near Bull's
Head hotel. The inhabitants of this prosperous point are all temperates
and well-to-do, owing to the influence of Mr. Carter, who for over a
quarter of a century has owned and managed the manufacturing interest
at Capouse with profit and prudence. Mr. Carter, in connection with
Calvin Parson, of Wilkes Bare, and Edward Weston, of Providence,
constitute the older triumvirate of temperance in the county of Luzerne.
One of the shops of Mr. Carter, with additions to it, is now being
fitted up for a rolling mill by Messrs. Spencer & Price. It
will be
in operation within a month. No pig or cast iron metal will be employed
in the construction of iron bars, which will be manufactured entirely
from scrap iron of every malleable kind and shape, from an old
horseshoe nail to the condemned miles of wire rope stretching their
length along the planes of the gravity railroads along the Moosic
mountain. Iron of superior strength and texture is expected to be made
at this mill in large quantities by an improved method understood by
these gentlemen, both of whom are skilled artisans. Steam power will be
supplied by the same engine that supplies the axe and scythe factory.
This, wit the new die factory on Rockwell's Flats and other iron works
in the lower village, will make Providence prominent as an iron
manufacturing village.
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