Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-05-18
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bed ticking, sold at SIS 10 so cts. p.v,l'
Stripes & checks, 30 to AZ do.
Singhams, 40 to 20 do.
|Cioth for shirtsand
sheeting, s5to75 dc.
fCounterpanes, at So each.
Those several goods are already c.
quai 10 appearance 10 the English ina
ported articles of the sa,ns descrip,i-
on, and superior in DURABILITY and
the finishing, is still improving
ihe p oportion Of fine yarns is also 40
creasing.
!! The same articles are manufactured
tn several other places, and partic,ilsr-
,ly at Philadelphia, where are also
made from the same material, web
jbing and coach laces, (Which articles,
have also excluded, or will soon .sx-
ciude similar foreign ilnpor,asions
table and other diaper cloth, ;eans,
vest patterns, cotton kcrseymers aud
blankets. The manufacture Of fus-
tians, cords and velvet, has also been
commenced in the interior and YES
term parts of Pennsylvania, and In
Kentucky.
Some Of the mills above mentioned
are also employed in cardine and
spinning wool, though nos to a consi-
desahle amount. Bat almost the
whole of that material is spun and
wovs IN private families and there are
yet but few establishments for the ma.
nutacture OF WOODEN cloths. Some
Information has however, been recei-
vad respecting fourteen OF these. as
stated in table (E.) manufacturing
each, on an ave- age, ten thousand
y4fds OF cloth a year, worth ON an a.
yerage from one to ten dollars ward.
L. IS believed that there are others
from which no Information has been
obtained; and tits known that seye-
raj establishments, on sm5ller scaI,
exist ia Philadelphia, Baltimore and
some ether places. All those cloths.
as well az those manufactured il
private families, are eeneraily SUI
tHeflor IN quality, though sons whas
inferior in appearance 20 imported
cloths OF the same price. The prin-
c!Pai obstacle to the extension OF the
manufacture is the want of wool
which is still deficient both ia ouaItv
and quantity. But those deiects ara
daily and rapidly lessened, by the H.
PRODUCTION OF sheep of the Mrrino and
other superior breeds, by the great de-
mand for the aytirie, and by the st,ea
ton now every where paid by farmers
TO the increase aud Improvement of
their hocks.
M anuiacturing establishments fer
spinning and weaving fax, are vet bu,
fcw1 In the state oil New YorE. fhtr.
is one which employs capital of
ls, 600 dollars, and twenty ak persons,
and In which about .ineiy ,bonsacd
pounds OF fax are annually spun ano.
woVe, into canvass and other coarse
linen. Information has been received
respecting two In the vicinity of Pin.
ladeiphis, one of which produces an-
nualiy 1900 yards of canvass made
OF hax and cotton; in the other. die
lax Is both hacked and spua BY ma
chinery, thirty looms are empioyra.
and II is said, that SOC, goo ,.rds Of
eotton bagging, sail cloyh md coarse
linen, may be made annually.
Hosiery may also be considered as
almost exclusively househeld mann.
facture. Thatof Germantown has dc.
ciined, and /, does not appear 10 hava
been attic mPsed on a Ia &c scale in
other places. There are however.
some exceptions and il is stated ihe I
the island Of Martha's Vineyard ex.
porte annually nine thousand pair Of
stockings.
II. HOUSEHOLD MANUFAC.
TURES.
But by far the giea.' part Of the