Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-11-20

NoVE.IRrR ~
Report ON Manufacture

MONDAY, Nov. 20, 1887.
In 1899 the cultivation manufacture OF silk was revived
in Connecticut Since then has progressed gradually and
surely until produce sewing silk worth 81 per pound more
than the imported article This branch OF our manufacture
as reached Ohio Virginia. and scattered lrou Penn
sylvania New York. New Jersey and Massachu
SETS million CT dollars vested business and il has
given employment time in the country not less than
10000 hands Yet upo this day have paper that
any portion Of its columns periodical reports mar
ket silk manufactures in fact any thing calculated
tighten the public the ma-r the interest of the
merchant manufacturer The conseque nee of all
this that the silk manufactures have progressed astonishing
ly sowand has domestic silk amount Of more
than quarter Of million Of dollars been brought into he
market Although for the ending Sertembt 80 1886
We paid for imported silks over twenysix mill ons dol
lars
Next regards the woolen trade have AT least Is car
pet factories containing $50 Icons These manufac ure at
least and half millions of yards of carpe, annually worth
on an average value 81 yard And have imported
600 yards of carpet halfa million OF dollars
Yet who report this branch OF the ellen
ness or carpet manufactured
We imported last year goods the TWEEN -four
millions of dollars Its calculated that annually
N this couny wooieR goods not less than
sixty millions II dollars BY this i; evident that
domestic manufactures o. woolens annually
hrty.six millions of dollars Yet have periodical rel
port the The wooen market and Be-
sides the value Of the annual consumption of wooen goods,
there least millions Of doliar vested the wooen
nanufsctures-n lands, buildings machinery, rights
stock hand &c. nothing Of the sixty millions invested
sheep, hundred and fifty millions invested in
pasture lands supportbe sheep Our wooen
employ GOO people in various and these require forty
millions of dollars in value OF the products Of agriculture
materials and subsistence Yet paper has hitherto deemed
desirable threw light the OF this port branch
Of business by periodical reports!
In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut there
1900 yet the people of this city generally
complete Ignorance relative every thing
the people Of Ksmschaika.
Why this. The is clcarwe have no periodica
reports relative these extensive and important branches
domestic manufactures.
the trade and manufacture. Who hut
ourselv has paid proper attention the Cotton Markell
Who besides MS h,s pointed the plaster merchant
policy advance their interests Ard what we have
done tor the reliant and planter, shall do for the
manufacturer We imported last year the value &C
twenty mlons-we consumed goods the value Of
seventy millions the least We then have manufac
tured c,toa goods the value OF fifty millions OF dolIas-
The capital invested must be least fly millions We have
factories and l0o0 hands EMPLOYED
thereinyet have periodical reports of state ard
condoa ohese any paper that pay The sehte
attention ikeir wants, wishes and interests
therefore resolved that this things shall con-
Time longer II i with this view this day commence
our periodical report OF the this country
As from let give tabular view OF the above