The Boott Cotton Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts have been well-documented for their importance and influence in 19th century America’s Industrial Revolution. This partly-printed notebook serves as a relevant artifact of material culture, and demonstrates the inherent and absolute importance of the water-powered canal-based system. To keep things running smoothly the water needed to be observed and monitored. Thus, the notebook has a running header along each page that states in two lines: “Height [in inches] of the gauge in the Upper Canal near the Appleton Counting Room” [and:] Total fall [in inches] from the Upper Canal to the monument in the River near the Boott Mills.” Vertical columns are for entering available fall; fall at the Appleton Mills and the Boott Mills and at all various points. Monitored descent was meant to be kept track within a range between 6.0 to 30.5 inches. While this notebook was never used, nor was it ever massacred for later 19th century scrapbooking, and represents about as specific an example of anonymous job printing for the textile industries as one could expect.