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Download or read book King's Pocketbook of Providence, R. I (Classic Reprint) written by Moses King and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from King's Pocketbook of Providence, R. I Abattoirs. Very little slaughtering of cattle is done here; as within the past few years it has been found that the business could be done better and cheaper in the West, and the carcasses instead of the live ani mals are now shipped East. Sev eral local firms, however, have slaughter-houses where they kill sheep and hogs, and occasionally a few cattle. On the line of the Boston Providence Railroad, between Providence and Paw tucket, the most extensive of these houses are situated. The firms using them, each of whom have separate establishments, are I. B. Mason Son, 98 Canal St., who slaughter between and hogs yearly; Comstock C0., 101 Canal St., who kill about the same number; and H. W. Clark, 99 Canal Sr., about sheep yearly. I. M. Lincoln, 112 Canal St., has a slaughter house in North Providence, in which from to cattle and from to sheep are annually killed. Wilbur Ken drick, 50 Canal St., at their slaughter-house in Olneyville kill annually to 1 sheep. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.