New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-13

and strength material, the United STATES
exec England and nearly approach the manufacturers Oh
France Tho may also be said OF the whole range
OF nanne colored and also plain, and OF the EsqueuA
and Moscow beayers."
The United States Commissioners at the Paris
Exposition of 1867. report: American carpets
are fully equal, if not superior, to the Engiisn
"tcarpets of similar grades. The American re-
9" tail purchaser is invariably compelled to pay
"a higher price for foreign carpet OF the same
grade. The American ingram carpet, which Is
"much more largely consumed, is unqueston-
I" ably superior to the English" or carpets
we imported last year to the value OF So,V'4,o'l
in cold. Not long since, an American mahulac-
turer of carpets told us that, very often, wheh
purchasers came for carpets. he would place III
his sales room English and American carpets
side by side, and the dealers would frequently
select the domestic for the foreign, as they were
the better carpets. Consumers are not aware Oh
the large quantity of goods made at home'
which are sold as Of foreign manufacture
The day is not far off, we hope, when all goods
made at home will bear the mark OF the manu-
facturer's name and place of business :,
Perhaps the Special Commissioner can teii
us why, in view of the importation OF some
S40,OO0,OO0 Of Wooden goods, we should not
increase oar tc0Olea SpindleSY 1t was stated
at the Wooden Manufacturers meeting at Chi
cago in August, 1868, that the Wooden Ma
chinery Of the Northwest had doubled IN four
wears: and there are five Wooden Mills in Cal
ifornia and four in Oregon. The Wooden Man.
ufactures of California already have wide repu-
tation. We have in our country every variety OF
climate, aud the best sheep-lands in the world.
The slopes of the Alleghanies, on either side,
are admirably adapted to sheep. Texas is a
great country for sheep. The climate is mild,
the pasturnge excellent, and few men and
shepherd dogs can take care of thousands Oh
those immense natural pasture grounds, where
grass never has to be cut for feed. Many of
the new States and Territories are among the
best sections for sheep; and the Pacific Coast
will be ere long white with the best OF Hooks,
and will number 100000 sheep. 1t seems
to us, from our great variety of soil and
climate, that we should raise all the wool we
need for our own use, and set machinery
enough in motion TO manufacture it. In the
quality of wool, We showed at Berlin few
years ago that We produced the finest, as a
Vermonter took the gold medal prize at that
Exhibition of the Nations for the best sheep
and the best wool.
The Special Commissioner in his late report
estimates the woOl-clip of the United States, IN
1868, at 177,OO0,OOO pounds. The wool-clp of
the United Stated States and Territories, i'll 1910,
was 358O2,114 pounds in 1850, 52,51G,059 pounds,
an increase of 16.750,OO0 pounds; in 1860, it was
GO,3G4.43 pounds, an increase over 1850 of
7750,OO0 pounds, and in 1868, Mr. Wells puts
it at 100000, an inoease in eight years Of
over 116,G3j,0S7 pounds: An increase greater
than the total clip of wool in the whole cOun-
try in 1850 and 1860 combined. Verify, Mr..
Weiss figures are very specially
when he figures on the wool product of 1868
and puts it at four pounds and hree-quarters
per head for each sheep, when the clip per head
in 1860 was only 2.68 pounds, an increase in
The product of each sheep in eight years, ac-
cording to tho accurate and accomplished
Special Commissioner, Of only two pounds and
seven-tenths. In this way, our Munchauscn
Special figures up the statement that it is q
waste to invest more capital in wooden spindles.
We commend Mr.. Wells to the attention of
the Committee on the United States Census,
provided they desire remarkable figures for the
Introductory remarks for tho volumes of the
Census Report of 1870.