>Sacramento Bee, Feb 13, 1858: > >WOOLEN FACTORY ON THE PACIFIC.--- A new woolen factory has been >erected at Salem O. T., which is 85 by 34 feet, and three stories high. >It will employ some thirty hands and make fifty blankets, or 300 yards >of cassimere, daily. That is real progress. > >P.S. the sp. of the word Woolen, is spelled as such in the article and >not as woollen as it comes up on sp. check. And the art. has the word >cashmere sp. cassimere. >marilyn If you want to tour that mill go to Salem and visit the Mission Mill Museum, about 2-3 blocks from the state capitol building (big tall guy dressed in gold, can be seen from anywhere in town). The Kay Woolen Mill is on the site of the Jason Lee Mission and is an excellent museum of both the mission and the mill. After a change of owners and a new production location to tap the Eastern Oregon wool growing region, the operations of the mill are now called Pendleton Woolen Mills. jim