Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-21
HOW To DEVELOP THE WEALTH
OF TENNESSEE.
NUMBER vi.


NUMBER vi.
Ii may not he very palitable to some o
our readers TO see comparison, or NOR
correctly speaking; contrast between tn
large and fertile State of Tennessee, an,
the barren, sterile soil Of Massachusetts
Nature was in one Of her most generou
moods when she moulded our hills of iron
and laid beneath our soil vast forests o
coal for the use of man. A thousand
streams which might turn the machinery
Of the nation, are pouring their tides in thl
great streams leading to the gulf withou
adding one dollar to the wealth of the State
Capital viii teach these streams mission
of good to man. Massachusetts IL poor
sterile waste, the least fertile of any of thu
New England States, yet to-day her bond,
are almost worth double as much as ours
She has grown great and rich by manufac-
lures alone. She has kept us busy ali tht
time furnishing her the raw material, and
she has grown rich off of the profits, all O.
| which would have been ours five had one.
half the thrift and enterprise manifested BY
the citizens of that State We have tried
agriculture and failed 10 attain wealth.
! They have tried manufactures ard had ia
eeansport their raw material Thousand
1 miles, and still they far excel us in maize
tlsl wealth and pFospefity.
/ Let us have some facts on this subject,
as one well established fact is worth dozen
OF the most learned arguments.
1t will startle our readers 10 learn that
the manufactures Of Massachusetts, in
1855, were valued at more. than all the
taxable property of the State Of Tennes-
see, for the year 1867 In other words,
Massachusetts could buy the whole State
of Tennessee, including every foot of land
in the State and all other taxable pro-
perry, with the proceeds of her manufac-
turies for one year. Are we sustained by
facts?
\ The products of manufactures in
Massachusetts, in l855................ $40 65I
| The value of all lands and other pro-
perty in Tennessee, in ls67......... 25e 357, ,6Sl
S 65. .463. $50
Thus it will be seen that Massachusetts
could buy the whole of the State of Tennes.
see with the product of her manufactures
for one year, and have the snug little sum
of $65, ,463,050 left. 1t may be
argued that it would require an i'm
mense amount of capital to be able
to cope with Massachusetts,. The
statistics show that Massachusetts, has not
more than SIS, ,0O0,0 600 invested in all her
manufactures. TO make this contrast
more apparent, we put it in tabular form:
Total value of products of industry in
Massachusetts, in 1885 s2g5 500 63l
Total value Of the same in Tennessee, l7.O8OGO0
Balance in favor of Massachusetts, s27s. .74O 6sl
The two States have about the same
population, and while Massachusetts. has
no natural advantages for manufacture, we
have boundless natural facilities. If the
taxation should be equal in the two States,
Tennessee would only pay into the trea-
suTy $l7, while Massachusetts would paw
1926. TO show what Massachusetts is
doing in the various branches of manu-
facture, we give the following facts gathered
from the American Cyclopedia:
In 1865 there were in the State 294 cot
ton mills, with ], ,5l9, ,527 spindles, consume
ing lO5, ,S5l ,749 pounds of cotton, and
manufacturing 314, ,996, ,567 yards of cloth.
value, S24, ,359,212; 1921, ,646 bales of
cotton yarn, value, $S30,546; 534, 1893
pounds of cotton thread, value, $2S5, ,934;
825,6S6 pounds of batting, value, 1895, ,374
$4,000 OF wadding, value, Sl39,S65; g.
227, 500 yards of cotton flannel value,
Sl2O,O56, and $4,000 pounds of wicking,
value, $3.50. Capital invested in the
manufacture of cotton $3l, ,96l, 600; hands
employed, males, 1897, females, 22,850.
fhercw weresiE calico mannfartosieG which
printed 6l,040,000 yards of calico, value
80, 5,l43, 600; bleached and oolored but not
printed, 100000 yards, value, $4,000;
capital invested, $1,9S0000; hands en-
ployed, l,023 males, and l34 females.
Beside the foregoing there were eleven
establishments not connected with calico
printing, which bleached or colored
66,400,000 yards, value, $5,1l1, 200
capital invested 1858 600; hands EN-.
pioyed GA. OF wooden mills there we're
i46 with 695 sets of machinery, consum-
ing 1876, ,298 lbs Of wool, and mannfac4
turing 769 ,627 yards of broad cloth, value,
1897 $50; GA, ,5S5 Of Cashmere. $5,Ol5,4
AL 6,736,0S2 Of satinet, $2,70S, 935
1913, COG of Kentucky jeans, $3l 900 9l0,-
279,227 of flannel or blanketing, $3,l25,-
949; and 6SS, ,S57 lbs of wooden yarn, $685.
537 capital invested, S. ,305, 500 hands
employed 5946 males, and 4l44 females.
There were 275,000 lbs of wool con-
sumed in the manufacture of satinets at
Stoekbridge, which, with a few smaller
items, are net included in the above.
There we're l3 carpet mills, consuming
$1,000 bis of cotton, and 2,SS0,97 of wool,
and manufacturing ], ,9SS, 400 yards of car.
peting, value, 81 ,362, ,Sl9; capital invested
So, 2,264 ,l72; hands employed, $50 males,
and 834 females. Besides these, there
were four mills for the manufacture
of painted carpeting, capital $l2,500,
producing SO, 900 yards; twenty hosiery
,oapnfa.toriaa oan:fal GEO Goa
ing ll6 males and 40 females. and PRO
ducing to the value Of $207, ,l60; four
linen manufactures, capital $3.50. coo,
employing 465 males and AS females, and
producing 2, ,600, 900 yards, value 81, ,240 600
and l,l50,000 lbs. of thread, value $780,
600; five silk factories, capital SIS 000
employing thirty-fve males and l03
females, and producing A, 900 lbs of sew
ing silk, value $500, 900; forty>nine rolling,
Sitting and nail mills, with 788 nail
machines, capital $2,342, ,S25, employing
S025 hands, and producing 81, 557 tons of
nails, value So, 7S6, $3.50, aud 35, ,934 tons of
other manufactured iron, vsllie 81, ,725, $50;
fifteen machines for making horse nails,
capital $4,000; 206 forges, capital $739,-
600, employing 547 hands, and manufae-
turing 6746 tons of bar iron, anchors, chain
cables, ETC., value $9l5,9S0 forty -four
steam engine and boiler establishments,
capital S2,099, 500, employing 263S hands,
and manufacturing to the value of $3, ,225,-
| 900; 109 establishments for the manufac-
ture of machinery, capital 81, 900,
employing 3740 hands, aud producing to
| the valne of S4,0S9, $50.
There were thirty-two flour mills pro-
| ducing 263 100 barrels; value 50, ,040,-
| 040; two hundred and siXty-si1 tanneries,
| producing 2,104,l72 tanned hides, value
| S47S5, ,369; and two hundred and fifty cur
| rying establishments, value of leather cur
ried Sl,69S,4 S,433, patent and enamelled
leather 81, ,27l, ,942.
There were II, ,S92, ,329 pairs of boots and
| 33,174,499 of shoes manufactured, value
| So, sol, 723; straw bonnets 8, ,326, $50, and
straw hats 1907, ASS, bricks los, 1853 900,
valne $2,627, ,l65.
The value of other manufactures for
1855 was, FIRE engines $4,000; scythes
| S120, ,532; axes, hatehets, and edge tools
| S626, ,654 cutlery S573, ,625; screws $780,
600; butts and hinges $4,000; tacks
and brads S621, ,212; shovels, spades,
forks and hoes SS94, 4,5l5; plows,
S7o7, ,175; other agricultural imple-
r