The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-05-11
(CoNTINUED.)
HATS.
s $4,000
100000

hats, amount 10 e S5OOOo
The annual expectation of Ame-
ricar hats, TO 100000
The domestic manufacture is therefore nearly
equal to the home consumption. The number
made IN the state of Massachusetts, is estimated
BY the hat company of Boston, at four zines TIE
humber required for the consumption of the state
and from otner information it would appear
That IN that state aloI-, the capital applied to
that branch, is near three millions of dollars, the
number oil persons employed about four thousand,
and the number OF hats annually made, $50 OO0
of which 1,,50,oOO are fine hats, worth on an
average four dollars each, T.! 400 900 felt hats
worth one dollar each. That the manufacture is
still profitable appesrs from late establishment
on Charles river, calculated to make annually
35.ooo hats at five dollars piece, and to employ
$50 workmen.
The quantity made in Rhode Islcnd, is stated
at 50.O0O, worth five dollars each, exclusively of
felt hats.
Connecticut and New-York make more than
is necessary tor their consumption the largest
establishment being that of Danbury, where 500
persons aresmployed, and TO the amount of 49,
coo dollars annually manufactured
In Vermont the manufacture supplies the con-
sumption. It is stated by. the hat.ers of phila.
delphia, that $4,000 hats, worth 1--WE dollas each,
are annually made there, in addition to which,
$4,000 country hats, worth three dollars each,
are annually sold in the city. In various quar-.
aers the scarcity ofwool is complained of, as pre-
venting the making of sufficient quantity Of
coarse hats. From all the information which has
beeHreceived, it is believed that the value of all
re hats annually made in the United States is
Near ten millions of dollars. (See X
PAPER and Printing
Some foreign paper is still imported but the
greater part OF tile consumption is OF American
manufacture and it is believed that if sufficient
attention was every where paid to the preserva-
lion OF rags, quantity equal to the demand
hee rslsf, IT,,.t,
ere erected in every part of the Union. There
are twenty-onc in the states Of New Hampshire,
Vermont, Rhode Island and Delaware alone, &
len III only five counties of The states of York
and Maryland Eleven Of those mills employ a
capita! of two hundred thousand dollars, and $50
Jsorkiuen, and make annually 10000 dollars
worth of paper.
Printing is carried on to an extent commcnsu-
rate with the demand. Z xclusivcy of tie nu-
sneroiis news papers which alone form conside-
rabie item in value, all the books for which t.ere
IS ~ adequate number ofpurchasers, are printed
IN the United States. Hut sufficient data have
not been obtained to form an estimate eff the an
Dual aggregate value of the paper made, and OF
the printing and book binding executed in the
United States, other than what may be inferred
from the population. The manufactures of hang
ang paper, and OF playing cards are also exten-
si'e; and that of printing types, of which there
are two establishments, the principal at Philadel-
lohia, and another at Baltimore, was fully ade-
quate to the demand, but has lately been affected
by tie want of regulus of anthony.
NaDWactareS ef Hemp
The annual importation o. foreign hemp, a
mounted to $500 tons. But the interruption Of
commerce has greatly promoted the cultivation
of that article in Massachusetts, n. York, Ken
lucky and several other places and it is beGev-
ed that sufficient quantity will, in short time,
be produced in the United States.
The manufacture of ropes, cables and cordaGe
.la nFfaNro I
70 the demand the expectations OF American ma
7aiiacture for 1906 and 1907, having exceeded the
average of $500 quintals, and the mportations
from foreign ports having fallen short of 1900
ditto.
Exclusively of the rope walks in all the sea-
ports, there are fifteen in Kentucky alone, which
consume about one thousand tons ofhemp year,
and six new works were IN a state OF preparation
for the present year.
The manufactures cf sail duck formerly estab-
Gished in Rhode Island, in Connecticut, and at
Salem, have been abandoned or suspended, partly
on account Of the high price Of hemp, and partly
3Or want OF capital. Some is still made and the
species of canvas commonly called cotton bag
Biug, is n9w manufactured IN various places on
Sn extensive scale. An establishment at Phila-
dolpnia, 9mplcys eight looms, and can make an
nually III 600 yards of duck or ~, 900 yards Of
cotton hSgging. There are thirteen mant iscio-
rles in Sentucky, and two in West Tennessee
The fyG at near Lexington, make annually
S50,010 yards of duck and cotton bagginE.
SbirifuopS end qadh Liquors.
TEf duty on licensed stills amounted in 1901,
20 37E 900, 9nd on account OfOmissions might be
estirlated at $50, GOO dollars. AS the duty ac!u-
alIypsid on spirits distilled in those stills, did
MOI on an average, exceed five cents Per gallon,
tie quantity of spirits distilled during that year,
from grain and fruit Exclusively Of the large gin
distilories in ctiCs) must have amounted to about
100000 Of gaions, and may, at present, the
manufacturing having increased at least il. the
same ratio as interpolation, be estimated al IL
millions of gallons. TO this must BE added a.
bout three millions Of gallons OF Gin and rum die
allied in cities, making an aggregate of fifteen
millions of gallons.
The Expectations % foreign spirits arc never.
thelcss very considerable, having amounted du
ring the years 1906 & 1907, 10 2,750,0Oo gallons
? year, and Welding nett annual revenue to the
II s. 2. SIS. coo dollars.
The quantity Of malt liquors made in tho Uni.
ted States is nearly equal TO their consumption.
The annual foreign importations amount only
20 1876 600 gallons
And the annual expectations of American beer
and cider, TO 167 900 gallons.
But the aInUilnt actually made cannot be cor
rectly stated. It has been said that 10 brewe
tiss Of Philadelphia continued annually $50 COO
bushels of malt and exclusively of the hume
rOus establishments a smaller scale, dispersed
throughout the country, extensive brcweries are
known 20 exist IN N York an Baltimore.
From those data tho aggregate value ofspiritu.
Gus and malt liquors annually nadc in the United
e. i At