Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-07-29
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lntendent OF the Census have been published.
They present In general view a magnificent
picture of the progress Of the country up to
le6O. IL 10 one which would have been con-
tempiated BY all true Americans with unmixed
feelings of pride and pleasure, had 1t not been
for this terrible civil war which suddenly arrest
cd our national prosperity In mid career. Never
before, perhaps, In the history of any people,
has there been such an example of instant and
Woful change from causes which, in the eye
OF reason, were go inadequate. To show how
nne IS the picture which has been marred by
NJ OF senseless passion, we present the follow.
Ing details in addition to those we have already
published.
We first take up our manufactures, which,
with the products Of the mines and fisheries,
amounted to something over one thousand mil
lions OF dollars in l650,-and are computed at
nineteen hundred millions In 1860: The gain
IN ten years being &c per cent. The product per
head was over $50; required the labor OF over
million OF men and Two hundred and eighty
nve thousand women; and gave direct support
TO near FIVE millions Of persons.
VI agricultural Implements there were man.
ufsotured In 1850 an aggregate valued at &c..
e42. .OOO. In 1860 that value had increased TO
l7,SO2,0 600 or l6O per cent. This increase was
most marked in the Western States, where the
value rose In the ten years from two to eight
millions.
or pig iron, there was produced in 1860, 1884,.
UOu tons, worth nineteen millions of dollars,
being an Increase Of "A per cent. The bar and
other rolled iron of that year was over 4O6, 900
tons, valued at over twenty-five millions Of dol
lars, an Increase Of near 40 per cent
of machinery, the census of 1850 showed an
amount valued at S23, ,O0O. 900; that of 1860
shows SAT 900, 600. The Southern and West
etn States exhibited the largest relative in
crease The ratio OF increase in the several
sections showed thus: New Eogland l6.4 er
cent, Middle States $50; Southern 3S7, West.
ern III. The exhibit for the Southern States
is proof that these States were improving as
well In manufactures and the mechanic arts, as
they were fourishlng In their agriculture In
Virginia the increase was 236 per cent, while
In south Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi il
was 525 per cent.
Tbe products OF the iron fouudries, aside from
machinery, were valued, In 1850, at twenty
millions, and were, in 1860, twenty seven mil
lions. Vi this amount over thirteen millions
came from tho forges Of New York aud Penn
sylvanis.
The GOAL mines produced, in 1860, to the
value OF nineteen millions, while in 1850 they
yielded only seven millions prodiplous In,
crease for ten years or bituminous coal, Ohio
raised twenty eight millions, and Virginia be
tween nine and Ten millions.
Lumber went up, In the ten years, from q tty
eight millions TO ninety-aix millions of dollars
In the Western States the increas was 1913 pei
cent. -
The products Of Touring and grlst mills we're
10 1851, one hundred and thirty-six millions
and in looO two hundred and twenty-three =
The largest mill, at 0swego, manufactured
three hundred thousand barrels of -four. Tht
next In order, at Richmond, made one hundreG
and ninety and one hundred and sixty thous
and. -
or spIrituous liquors, there were mapufac
tured eighty-eght millions Of gallons, value,
at tWenty-four million two hundred and fifty
three thousand dollars.
Malt liquors footed up 1895, GOO barrels, al
increase of IT'S per cent, valued at eIghteeI
millions Of dollars. -
or cotton goods New England manufacture
over eighty millions, the Middle States owe
twenty'six millions, and the remaining State
eight millions five hundred thousand dollars
Worth-msking the whole about one hundre
and fifteen millions In 1860, against sixty-hy
millions in 1881, en- increase OF 76 per cent =
The value OF the product to each individual q
the population was SO 60-and the amount DC ].
yards. In 1850 the average product per hea
was 81 Id yards. 1t will thus be seen that tb
increase per head was IL yards. This increas
is nearly equal to the average per head in 1890
when it was l2 yards.
The number Of hands employed in the manu-
facture in 1860 was AZ, ,3l5 males, and 73, Sos Il
males, an increase In the male operatives {
lOO2O, and in the females of II, ,944 since 1851
The average product Of the labor of each operr
tive was $3.50. The number of spindles Wa
returned at 5.035, 1888, being and Incl ease OF l.
4O2 lO5, or SS.5 per cent. over the aggregate i
le5O, which vac estimated at 3. .633. .693. Tb
New England States possess 1859 ,297, or 79.
per cent Of the whole. while Massachuset
alone employs 1888, 700, or 1913 per sent. {
the number returned in the Union,
The quantity of cotton used in the fabrics
ton OF the above goods was 364, ,036, 1913 pound
or O,O9O bales at 400 pounds each. o. tn
smount the New England States consumed 81 l
ISS bales, and Massachusetts alone BIG, ,665.-
The consumption per spindle in that year
the various States and sections was as follow