Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-01-16

The Yankee clock business has been overdone.--.
Tie clock factories, for several years. went entirely
too last; many of them have down and good
many more have been wound up. 1t is stated that
there are now only thirteen factories making clocks
and of these only six running full time and with
their ful compliments of hands. The total produc-
ton OF clocks this year is estimated at only about
l4oOOO. -Four years ago there were thirty-one fac
tories. The Jerome Manufacturing Company, which
has gone to ruin, carrying Barnum along with it.
ed then to make 444,OOO clocks year, and for a
series of years the factory of ]. c. Brown made
nually from $4,000 to 100000. Last year the An
slonia Company made about $50 ,00G, which is equal
to the estimated production of the whole country this
yeaI.
1t is not improbable that few years ago We were
making about seven hundred thousand clocks year
IhIs is about emo Ugh 10 supply population of a.,
100000, allowing the liberal average of one clock to
every seven inhabitants Ia sis years OF such work
this every family in the United States would own
a clock. Now Yankee clocks are good and SER
vceable things, besides being cheap, il was entirely
unreasonable to expect that manufacture OF an ar
iicle not very peIshable enormously in advance
OF the wants OF the people, could be sustained, paFl-
QUARRY as the foreign demand Was never large ami
never could become so he business ruined itself
1t made fortunes for those who first undertook to
make cheap clocks by machinery, on large scale
Others then rushed 10, and in few years there was
really prospect that enough Yankee clocks would
be made to supply one TO every home, tent, wlgWam
or cave in every quarter of the globe. But though
Yankee clocks are found in all paris of America, and
though specimens have been carried to Europe, Asia
Africa, Australia and the Islands of the Sea, yet the
trade 10 foreign parts was never very extensive or
profitable, and the home demand could not keep up
with the enormous supply. So there have been fail
ures Of the most Calarnious kind the numb of fac
tories has dwndled down from thirty to thirteen
and the annual production OF clocks from seven hun
dred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand
This is about fair rate for the supply OF the home
Market which is regulated by the increase of the po
pulaton and the usual and lear of old clocks
There is a chance, therefore, that the business may
now become once more profitable one.
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