This will look to some like a great story, but is one of the wonders of the clock business.

If some of the parts of a clock were not made for almost nothing, they could not be sold so cheap when finished.
The facilities which the Jerome Manufacturing Company had over every other concern of the kind in the country, and their customers in this and foreign countries, are worth to the present company more than one hundred thousand dollars.

Their method of making dials, tablets and brass doors was a saving of more than ten thousand dollars per year over any other company doing the same amount of business; and I know that the present company would not give up the customers of the Jerome Manufacturing Company for ten thousand dollars per year: they could not afford to do it.

The workmen who came with me from Bristol, were an uncommonly energetic and ingenious set of men.

Many years they had large and profitable jobs in the different branches, which encouraged them to invent and get up improvements for doing the work fast, and in a great many things they far surpass the workmen in similar establishments--all of which have resulted to the benefit of the present manufacturing company of New Haven.
In the year 1850, I was induced by a proposition from the Benedict & Burnham Co., of Waterbury, to enter into a joint-stock company at my place in New Haven, under the name of the Jerome Manufacturing Co.