Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-12-18
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AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.

The census returns exhibit vpry
| large increase of manufactures i'm alf
branches. The total value Of domcs1
tic manufactures for the year 1850
was Sl,0l9, lO6,6l6. Their value for
the year 1860, as asccrtaincd in part.
and carefully estimated for the remain
der, is put down at 81 900 900 600
an increase OF more titan S6 per cent.
IN ten years. If to this amount were
added the aggregate Of mechanical
productions below the annual value of
S5OO-of which the census takes mo-
accoum-the result, in Mr.. Kenncdy's
words, would be one of startling mag
nitudc.
The number Of manufacturing cs-
Establishments whose ANIMAL prodnc-
tions exceed $500, is l2s, 300 Of which
there are 49, in the w-England
States, 52,364 in the Middle States.
34,30l in the Western States. lS.O2G
in the Southern States, and 4,O95 in
the Pacific States and the Territories
of Utah, Washington, and New Mexi-
CO. The capital invested is $1,000
00O. 900, which is distl ibuted among
the different geographical divisions Of
the country rs follows: New. England
1888, 42O, 600; Middle States, s464 259-
200; Western States, Sl96,SS9,475
Southern States, 500, ,665, 900 Pacif.
lc States, $2S,76G,3l9. The value Of
the raw material used is set down ac
Sl,Ol2,O00,0 600, and the value of the
annual product at 81 goo, ,000, 900, as
before stated. The number of per-
sons employed is 1855, 900, of whom
100000 are males, and 2S5, 900 fe-
males.
Such are the footings.up of the fig
ures as to manufacturers. To speak
of the subject in detail would require
more space than can here be spared.
Suffice 1t that they embrace in their
productions all the mechanical contri-
vances which are needed by man
the mighty stcam-enginc with the
power Of river, and the pin which
hides itself in the roses of lady's
bonnet; cables which hold fleets at
safe anchor through the widest storm
and silken thread which the breeze
stirs; the press which throws off 80 900
sheetS in an hour. and the crotchet
panlon was whole month making
your last lamp-mat; plows for the
farmers, pens for the editors, guns
and swords and ammunition for the
soldiers stoves to cook with, beds to-
sleep on, clothes TO wear woodeu
nutmegs, hams of basswood- d-every-
thing ueedful which the inventive ge-
Mus of the world has discovered how
to manutacture--can be, and is, pro-
duced 10y the manufacturers of Amer
lea, which actually support directly
and indirectly, one third of the popn-
lation of this country number
greater than all the people in the
land when jackson fought the battle
Of New Orleans.
The values of the nineteen leading
manufactures for the year ending
June |, 1860, are set down in round
numbers as follows. Flom and
meal, 1924, 600, 600 cotton goods,
$ll5, 100000; lumber, $96,O0O,00O
boots and shoes, 800 200, 900 leather,
S72,000,00O clothing, $70,0O0,0 200;
woolcn goods, $50, goo machin-
cry, steam-cngines, etc, S47,000,0 900 /;
printing book, job, and newspaper,
S42 100000; sugarrefining, S3S, ,50O,-
900 /; iron-founding, S2s, 500, 900;
spirituous liquors, S25, 600, 900 cabin
ct furniture, $24, 100000 bar and
other rolled iron, S22, 100000 pig
iron, $l9, 100000 malt liquors, sls,-
100000; agricultural implements,
sl7, 500, 600; paper, SIT, 500, 600;
soap and candles, SIT ,000, ,OO0.-N Y.
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