Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-01-29
The Manufactures Of Augusta County.

ducer of grain, as shown in former article,
would lead to the conclusion that the manu-
featuring establishments for the conversion of
these cereals into -four and meal would hold
an important place among those there in OPP
eratlon-and we find that 81 of the 1877 in
the county were devoted to these purposes,
having an invested capital of $287 900,
working up raw material worth 1891 1000 ;
Employing SO hands at cost of $23 $50, and
producing $462, 255 worth of flour and meal.
In the number of its Touring mills, Augusta
is by far the first county in the State-Hen-
rico, alone, had more money invested in
Touring mills, the extensive establishments
in Richmond, unsurpassed in the United
States, swelling its total.
Next in point of numbers were the TWEEN
ty-two numbering establishments, costing
$39, 1862, using ST., sos worth of timber,
employing forty-eight men for $11 ,220, and
furnishing $40, O24 worth of lumber, nearly
all Of it for home consumption. Frederick
had twenty-six saw mills, but only produced
| about half as much lumber, and at greater
proportionate cost Halifax, with sixteen
mills, had more invested, and produced more
at less cost; Rockbridge had forty-three,
had less invested, and produced more, re-
suit easily accounted for when we remember
that she has the advantage of water trans
portation, by canal, to market; Washington
county had forty-fve mills, but only about
the same amount Of production
The Is distilleries of the county had
$87, 458 invested, used raw material worth
$5S, 339, employed 81 men at SO, 1OS, and
manufactured $l20,777 worth of liquor.
Rockbridge had 20 establishments but only
ST., O25 invested, using not half the raw
material or producing half as much for mar
ket; one establishment in Henrico had more
invested and produced more, and one in
Ohio county. now in West Virginia, pro-
duced more. Its II blacksmithing estab-
lishments produced $21 ,676; its - tan
yards, with $29, 300 invested, used S21,-
805 worth Of raw material, employed 29 men
at cost of 81 ,668 and produced $50, 647
worth of leather, more than was produced
in any other county now in the State, al
though Rockingham had 2 more tanyards
and had more money invested in the bust
ness the counties of Marion, Preston, Har-
rison and Hampshire, now in West Virgin
in, were more extensively engaged in this
branch Of manufacture from circumstances
easily explained.
The establishments for the manufacture of
boots and shoes were I, yielding $21 $50:
6 for confectioneries; 5 for making carriages,
paying out $40, $50 for material and labor,
and producing $30,7OO worth for sale; 5
for cooperage; 4 for saddlery and harness;
4 for wool-carding, consuming S., 900 worth
Of wool; 8 for making threshing machines,
producing $4,000 worth; for making CT
gars, producing $40, $50; for millinery;
3 for grinding plaster, using $11 800 of raw
material and making it worth $4,000; 8
for making wagons and carts; 2 for dental
manufacture, producing $4,000; 2 for iron
castings, making So, $50 of raw material
worth $4,000; 2 for tin, copper and sheet
iron ware 2 for wooden goods, consuming
S20,8 in value of wool and turning out
$4,000 worth of goods; 1 establishment
for making mems clothing; bakery; l
cabinet shop; 1 gas works l hat making
establishment l for making bariron, using
$1,000 worth of material and making S., 600
worth of the manufactured article l fur
mace for pig iron, with SIT 900 invested.
and a production of $16, 900; 1 manganese
mine, yielding S., $50; marble factory;
1 paper mill that, with II hands, at cost
of So, 1000, converted $40, 900 worth of raw
material into S18, 900 worth of printing pa
per; photograph establishment, and 1 pot
terry that, on 5000 of investment, cost of
raw material and labor, produced,,S12 900.
These make the 1877 manufactures in the
county in 1860, with $3.50, 900 invested in
them, using raw material worth $615 $40;
employing All males and 81 females, at
1929, IA for wages, and yielding products
valued at S915,7l3.
In the number of establishments, Henrico
with its 800, and Rockbridge with its 220.
only surpassed 1.-THE one including the
manufacturing city Of Richmond the other
the numerous blacksmith shops and saw
mills that produced but little; in capital in
vested, the cost Of material and value of pro-
duction it was only surpassed by the tobacco
manufacturing counties Of Henrico, Camp
bell, Dinwiddie and Pittsylvania, the coal
and cotton Of Chesterfield. in Virginia. the
iron and glass of Ohio, and the salt Of Ka-
nawha, in West Virginia. Rockbridge yield
ed more from the largo value Of its cement
These are the facts of Notwithstanding
in showing what had been done to bring the
loom and anvil to the land of the plow-share,
but far more instructive and useful we hope
they will prove when we point out the un-
developed resources, the unused raw mater
ials, that will repay the augmentation, more
than hundred fold, of manufacturing estab-
lishments. Many of those in operation in
1860 were burned during the war, but they
are more in number now than then, with
more capital invested, using more raw ma
terial and producing far more-in many
things several hundred per cent, for mar
ket. The county has added to its industries
the manufacture Of Buckingham" ware and
fire. brick from its native kaolin ofnumber
from its own deposits Of improved pig iron,
almost as valuable as steel for many pur-
poses, from its own ores, found in the natur-
al state fitted for the process Of manufacture;
of agricultural implements and machinery,
that are finding purchasers even beyond the
borders of the State on account of the quality
Of their material and workmanship ; and the
opening Of valuable gqarries Of marble,
whose products are the demand Of fashion in
the metropolitan cities its -four, from its new
and improved mills. has attracted purchasers
from the city Of New York, and secured the
patronage of the government. The exhibit
Of the fruits Of its varied mechanical indus
tries at its inaugural fair last fall, Ito say
nothing of the fair itself, which was a mar
vel of production. y showed that the county
is fully on the course for being the first in the
Commonwealth (always excepting our me-
tropotitan county, in the number, variety
and value of its manufactures d En-
JoHNc. BREokrNarDan. letter receiv-
ed. dated Niagara, Ontario, January
18th, from the above named gentleman,