West Tisbury. — Since the putting up of the Bradley Woollen Mill, in West Tisbury, there is, we are told, a decided improvement in real estate in that pretty village. This little place, decidedly the most cultivated and picturesque in the country, has felt a revivifying influence, and with the impetus given it by the factory just put up, bids fair to “sustain the movement.”
The mill put up by Captain Bradley, upon the site of the dilapidated Look mill, promises to be of essential service to our wool growers, by furnishing them with an early and certain market for their clip. With liberal management on the part of the proprietor,, and in his large dealings he has ever borne the reputation of fairness and liberality, this undertaking will be of great public utility. An advantage, and by no means a small one, will be found, in the circumstance that it will enable our people to take a portion of their wool to the mill, and have it converted into satinets, of a stronger texture than they have usually worn, and at a less price than they have usually paid. Hitherto they have sold their wool, and brought it back in cloth, charged with the expenses of sending the wool to Boston, of the wool dealer’s profits, the manufacturer’s profits, and the cloth dealer’s profits — nothing less in the whole than fifty per cent. When they have bought low-priced satinents, they have not had their own country’s wool returned to them, but a fabric from miserable Buenos Ayres, Smyrna, Crimea or Barbary wool, often damaged on the voyage of importation. One yard of cloth made from their own wool will outwear two of that made from coarse foreign wool.
This article appears in July 9, 1846.