Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-10-23
WHOLE NO. 81
Manufacturing Statistics.

MANJFAcTURERs.-"T total value Of
domestic manufactures. (inrluding fisheries
and the products of the mines. according
TO the census of 1850, was S1,019, 106,-
GIG. The product of the same branches
for the year ending June /. 1860, will
reach an aggregate value of nineteen hun
dred millions of dollars, (sl.900,00e,-
O00) This result exhibits an increase of
more than S6 per cent. in ten years. AS
suming the total value Of manufacturers in
1860 to have been as already stated, the
products per capita was in the proportion
of S60.6l for every man. swomap, and
child of the Union. If to this amount
were added the very large aggregate of me-
chanical productions below the annual val
ne of FIVE hundred dollars-of which no
would be one of startling magnitude"
The production of this immense aggre-
gate gave employment to about 1 loo, 900
men, and 2S5. 900 women, and it is safe to
assume that one-third of our whole popu-
lation is supported by manufacturing in
dustry. az
Let us look at some of the items of this
industry.
Agricultural Implements The total val
ue of these articles made in 1860, was S17,-
S02. .5l4, and increase of l60 per cont. over
the sum in 1850. In New England the
amount was two aud three quarter mil
lions of dollars in 1860; in the middle
States nearly fivc and half millions, in
the western States nearly eight millions,
being more than two and half millions
in each of the two States, Illinois and
Ohio. In all the southern States the value,
including cotton gins, was 81 .5S2, ,4S3.
IRoN.-The amount of Pig Iron return
ed by the census OF 1860, was SS2,474
tons, valued at SIS, 9,4S7 .760. an increase
of Al per cent. upon the value returned in
1850. Bar and other rolled iron amount
ed to 40G, 39S tons, of the value of S22.-
24S, 1913. and increase of SO per cent. The
whole amount was equivalent to % pounds
of iron for each inhabitant OF the county.
MAcHrNERy-The total value manufac-
tured in 1860. exclusive of sewing ma
chimes, was S47. .llS.5 $50. an increase of
more than eighteen millions of dollars
over 1850 Besides this the value of the
production of Iron fouudries in 1860, was
SSt ,ViO, lOo-
CoAL.-The amount OF coal produced in
the year ending June l. 1860, was 144,-
!; 376,927 bu. of bituminous, valued at ST.
491, l91, and 9,39S, 1872 tons of anthracite,
valued at sl1.674,574 OF this amount,
, Rhode Island produced $4,000 bushels of
bituminous, and 1000 tons of anthracite
, coal.
PRIsTING-Tbe value of the products
of printing presses in 1860, was as fol-
lows: books. Sll, ,S43 .459; jobs. 81, 49,
, 2l3, newspapers. $40. .653. 37l; total val
ue, S3S,671 .043 OF the total value,
nearly twentythree millions in Massachu-
t setts; six millions in Pennsylvania, aud
S205, 262 in Rhode Island.
SEWING MAcMsrs.--This manufacture
2 has been wholly introduced since 1885,
3 In 1860. there were, in niue States, 46 es-
Establishments for the manufacture OF sew
; ing machines; capital invested, 81. $780,
, 250; value of raw material including fuel,
1867. .e31; average number of hands en-
ployed 2. 1874; cost of labor. Sl.063, 236
, number of machines made, ll6, $3.50; value.
50, ,605, ,345.