Treasury -- Mr. Lister's Account of the mill-power in parts of ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
It was found that the combined available mill-power of Deptford, Portsmouth, and ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
As to the mill-power at Limerick, it was so uncertain, so dependant on the weather, and so very much required there by the merchants, that he would make no demand upon it. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
The mill-power at Deptford was, meantime, increased by an additional engine. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
The want of conveniently situated mill-power, to grind the Indian and other corn purchased by the Government, caused them for some time great anxiety. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
Mr. Lister, in the letter just cited, encloses to Sir R. R.uth, in a tabular form, an account of the mill-power in Westport, Newport, and along the coast of Mayo and Connemara. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
Treasury ordered a return of the mill-power at the chief government victualling establishments on the English coast, as there would be no difficulty in sending meal to Ireland from those places. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
To enable the people to be, to some extent, independent of mill-power, it occurred to the authorities to revive the use of the old Irish hand-mill, or quern. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
The Treasury also put themselves in communication with the authorities in Malta, relative to its mill-power, and the facilities that might exist there for purchasing grain in quantity. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
The Irish mill-power given above was considerable for the extent of the district, but as the machinery was worked exclusively by water, the mills, of course, were idle when the water supply failed. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
Mr.G. Donaldson said he had been much engaged in works of land-drainage, and that, in many instances, great difficulties were experienced in obtaining outfalls, owing to the water rights, on the course of rivers for mill-power, &c.Mr. R. G.antham spoke of the necessity of further legislation, "so as to give power to lower bridges and culverts, under public roads, and straighten and deepen rivers and streams." ❋ Henry Flagg French (N/A)
Several other springs in the vicinity afford rare mill-power. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
Hydraulic, which brought the waters of Old River for mill-power through the heart of the town, from a Big Reservoir and a Little Reservoir; the ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
They washed the linen in a clear, swift-running stream, diverted from the dam of the Mincio to furnish mill-power within the city wall; and we could look down the watercourse past old arcades of masonry half submerged in it, past pleasant angles of houses and a lazy mill-wheel turning slowly, slowly, till our view ended in the gallery of a time-worn palace, through the columns of which was seen the blue sky. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
Governor Dodge thought the tract chiefly valuable for its pine, and natural mill-power; and there was no one to undeceive him. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)
a famished population, there was no available mill-power whatever. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
Quoting from a recent Treasury Minute, the passage about not opening the depôts, while food could be obtained by the people from private dealers, at reasonable prices, he continues: "To delay resorting to this alternative, and in order to stimulate exertion, it is, I beg to repeat, absolutely essential that the trade should have the full and exclusive benefit of all the mill-power in its own locality." [ ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)
