Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1845-09-27
QUESTIONS.

| ry; whether water, steam, or other power2
3. When established; and whether joint
stock concern?
Capital invested in grouud and build
lngs water power, and other machinery?
5 Average amount in materials, and in
cash for the purchase OF materials and pay.
ment Of wages?
Annual rate OF profit on the capital in
vested since the establishment of the manu-
factory Distinguishing between the rate OF
profit upon that portion of The capital which
| is borrowed, after providing for The interest
upon it, and the Fate of profit upon tina,
portion which is not borrowed
7. Cause Of 'heIncrease (or decrease, as
the case may beg of profit?
6. Rate of profit on capital otherwise
employed in the same State and county?
8. Amount of articles annually manuac-
tured since the establishment Of the manu-
factory; description, quality, and value Of
each kind!
10. Quantity and value of different kinds
of raw materials used; distinguishing be
tween foreign products and domestic pro
ducts?
II. Cost in the United States Of similar
articles of manufacture imported from
abroad, and from what countries,
10. Number ofmen, women and children,
employed, and average wages of each class /!
10. How many hours a day employed,
and what portion Of the year?
Ia. Rate Of wages Of siliar classes other
wise employed in the same State and coun-
ty, in other States and in foreign countries!
| Is. Number OF horses or other animals
employed?
I6. Whether the manufactures find a
market at the mandatory; it not, how far
they are sent to market?
II. Whether foreign articles of the like
kind enter into competition with them at
such place OF sale, and to what extent?
10. Where are the manufactures consum
ed?
10. Whether any of the manufactures are
exported TO foreign countrses; and if 50,
where?
90. Whether the manufacture is sold by
the manufacturer for cash? and if on credit,
at what credit if bartered, for what?
81. Whether the cost Of the manufac.
tured article Ito the manufacturer) has in
creased or decreased; and how much, in
each year, from the establishment of the
mandatory; and whether the increase has
been in the materials or The labor, and at
what rate!
%. The price at which the manufactures
have been sold by the manufacturer since
the establishment?
%. What rate Of duty is necessary to
enable the manufacturer to enter into com
petition in the home market with similar
articles imported'
lie thero an oh ,p1a in, To-,
ying or collecting the duty on such articles,
to prevent fraud1
25. VIVA, has been the rate of your pro-
fits, annually, for the last three years? and
if ii be joint stock company, what dvi-
dends have been received, and what portion
of the income Of the company has been
converted into fixed capital, or retained as
fund for contingent or other objects, and
therefore not divided out annually?
90. What portion of the cost of ' our
manufactures consists OF the price Of the
raw material, what portion of the wages Of
labor, and what portion Of the profits OF
capital?
81. What amount Of the agricultural pro
ductlon OF the country is consumed IN your
Establishment, and what amount Of other
domestic productions!
20. What quantity or amount Of manu-
features, such as you make, are produced
in the United States, and wha. amount in
your own state?
90. If the duty upon the foreign manu-.
tacture o. the KIM of goods which you make
were reduced to l2A per cent. with cor
responding reduction on all the imports,
would it cause you to abandon your bust,
ness, or would you continue 10 mQnuiac
ture at reduced prices'
80. II it would cause you to abandon your
business, in what way would you employ
your capital?
81. Is there any pursuit in which YOU
could engage, from which you could derive
greater profits. even after a reduction OF
the import duties to l2i per cent.
81. Are not the manufactures of salt and
iron, remote from the points OF Importation,
out OF foreign competition within A certain
circle around them; and what is the extent
Of tina, circle?
33. Amount Of capital and what pro-
portion the borrowed capital bears 10 that
which is real?
"a. What amount Of reduction in the du.
ties would enable the actual or real capital
employed 10 yield an interest of six per
centum and how gradual the reduct on
should bel
80. If minimums should be abolished. and
the duty assessed upon the actual value Of
the imported article in the American mort
what rate OF adyalorum duiV wnuId bn