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- Patterson Brothers
- 1 accompany this manufacturing enterprise, Patterson Brothers established their own "company town." The
- 2 Patterson Brothers, the move only delayed the inevitable at a time of
- 3 departure of the Patterson works and the decline of the Patterson community
- 4 Major Mackenzie Drive. The "firm" was Patterson Brothers, and its factory was located along the
- 5 Mr. Mahoney worked at the Patterson implement factory for $1.50 a day. There Patterson
- 6 were generally far from satisfactory, the Patterson works were exemplary - well ventilated, neat, clean,
- 7 1884 - a time when prospects appeared rosy. Company output for the year was expected to be 400
- 8 1885, however, Patterson's found itself in difficulties. The firm wanted
- 9 endorsed their council's $35,000 bonus, and Patterson's moved "lock, stock and implements" to
- 10 - too little, too late to save the Patterson farm implement business from leaving the district in 1886, but with great
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