Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-04-25
NO. Z.
EFFECT on THE PRICE or
WHEAT AND VALUE OF
WHEAT-LANDS.

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large mass of sbour and capital which.
without protection, would have swellsd
the production Of wheat, a great agent Of
lis consumption.
10 the frs, place flour is used very ex.
tensiveIy as an Ingredient in many ofour
manufactures.
There are 27s cotton manufactures IN
Massachusetts alone, employ ing 20 92S
persons. Mr.. Anthony Kennedy, Of JEFF.
ferson, in an excellent speech made a
week or two ago at Bunkers Hill, 10 this
county, stated that in single factory, Of
which he at one time had the management,
on the Patapsco, employing $50 persons,
600 barrels of -four were used for Sizing
coAoRs. The Massachusetts manutacto.
RES, it IS well asceitaned, turn out by
means of improved machinery between a
| fourth and fifth more fabrlcs IN proper
ton 10 the hands employed than the fac
tories on the Patapsco. a calculation on
this basis will sustain the statement recent
~ made in the u. s. Senate by Mr.. Phelps
THAT the quantity of -four used in the Mas
sachusetls cotton factories for sizing cot.
tons is equal to the whole average -four
export to England. And there were five
successive years "a, 30, '36, '37, and
'33 (see table from Joshua Leavit's mo-
mortal, in my first number) IN which The
aggregate sales to England for that whole
time were not equal to the estimated sale
of one year to the Massachusetts, manu-
! facturers for sizing alone. To be sure
/ Massachusetts contains above one fourth
part of our cotton manufa ctories, but still
with this fact the home market for flour
afforded by this branch Of our manulac-
lures, for starch, &c, is worth nearly
four times as much as that of England
generally, and IS in any one year (or il
is a sure and steady market) worth near
~ four times as much as the English mar
| ket was worth for one whole term Of five
successive years, and twenty times as
much as the Average English rket for
those five years. do not mention this
fact here 10 shew the nsigniGcance Of the
! English market; | have already given
my views fully on that branch Of my sub.
ject; but, in passing, 1t is worth while to
notice that the English flour market which
is made so important matter by our pc.
liticsl opponents did not take in the ave-
rage purchase of FIVE successive years
more than one-tw entieth part of the guam.
tity used annually for starch in our cot
ton manufactures.
have no Information as to the amount
of flour ussd asnn ingredient IN our book
binderies or establishments fer periodical
~, - l..
The quantity Of flour consumed in the
shape Of food by our cotton manufactures
is very nearly as great as that consumed
as an ingredient in the preparation OF
;heir fabrics. The following statemen,
which Mr.. Kennedy has drawn up very
carefully will give an idea of the amount
of agricultural products, wheat among
them, consumed in this great department
Of our industry.
"Agrjcul'ural productions, &c, consumed
by the Union PataPsco and Thistle Fac
tories, al EHicotS NILS, Nd.
"The Union Co., have now two Mills
each of upwards of 1000 spindIes, en-
ploying about 400 hands; the whole num-
Der dependent on these mills for support
is about 700. They consume about 600
bills. ofGoar, about 400, 900 lbs. Of corn
meal, nearly 900, 900 lbs. OF beef and
pork, ard other agricultural productions
in p oportion, such rs wood. vegetables,
butter aud cheese, &c. These mills re.
quire about l 200 900 lbs. of raw cotton,
and about l, 900 6JiS. Of -four for starch
an amount equal to that consumed for
food. Iron, OIL, leather, castings, coal,
and other stores not enumerated, arc pur-
chased in large quantities.
The Palapsco Factory-one mill OF
upwards of 1900 spindes, employing
$50 hands more than 400 persons,
in all, dependent on it for support--con-
sumes about 500 bills. of tour, about
24O, 900 lbs. of corn meal, leo, 600 lbs. OF
beef aud pork, besides vegetables, butter,
,chhces &C., and large quantity Ct oats
hay and corn for the teams, bought from
the farmers of the neighborhoo1 at the
highest cash prices. This establishment
requires between 500 and 600, 900 lbs. Of
raw cotton, and 600 bbs. of flour for
starch.
"The Thistle, nearly tie same size as
the patopsco, requires and consumes about
The same amount OF agricultural produc-
iions.
"These Factories have congregated
great deal OF population, industry, and
trade about them. There are several
large flour nils, an oil mill, an extensive
Rolling mil and Iron works, a very Elk.
tensive tanneiy, many retail stores, &c;
and population Of upwards of 5000 per-
sons drawn to their neghborhood, cir
culate more than S 200, 000-a large
proportion of which is expended for agrI-
cultural produce Of every description"
This consumption for TODD is very great
in other branches OF our manufactures
where it is not used as an ingredient of the
manufacture. The statement of w. Oke
~, Saltonstall's Report, p. 80, estimates
the whole number OF persons sustained
by the labor on and incidental to the man
ulacture of iron in the u. s., including
men, women and Children" at 1925,
and the whole value of the agricultural
productions consumed by them at lin mo.
ney) Sll,726,766. 5000 hands are d.
recily employed in the iron business OF
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