Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-12

aud the firm considered it wise to create
| loophole. | don't remember now which
brother signed the statement, but here it
iS:-Lowell company, 5000, coo pounds;
Hartford company, $500, 600 pounds; San
ford & Sons, 500, 600 pounds; Solith COM
pany, OF Workers, 1900, 600 pounds; Hig-
gins & Co of New York, 6, 900, coo pounds;
BigelOw company, 4, 500, 900 pounds; Rox-
bury company, 3 0O0 900 pounds; j. & j.
DobsoD, &. 600, 600 pounds-and number
of smaller concerns various amounts, aggre-
eating altogether, 83, 00O,0 pounds for
last year.
"Messrs. Dobson's 100000 pounds as
| imported would leave, after securing, &c,
about 2,OOO,O 900 pounds of clean wool.
Please follow me carefully. This is carpet
wool, imported at q cents pound duty.
Let us see how this carpet wool is used.
The firm runs $50 carpet looms. Each
loom USES up about thirty-eight pounds a
day, producing thirty yards of carpet, II
pounds to the yard. Put it this way: For
each loom, per week, 225; per year of forty
weeks, 8 leo. Multiply 9,120 by $50 and
you have 1,64l, 800 pounds. Now, it is
| admitted that carpet Den use everything
/ y.
| i know a man who has 300, 600 pounds
of the latter now ordered-and what not,
at least twenty-five per cent. A little table
will be useful here:
lbs
Clean wool during 1857. 20OOOOO
Wool actually used on $50 looms l,13l,2
Balance ooo,oOO
This residue goes into making blank
cts, plushes, upholstery, &c, IN lieu OF the
regular wool paying 10 cents u pound duty,
on which, at "A cents pound, there Is q
saving of 500, 255; bat to make every al
lowance possible there will still be mar
gin of $50, 900. l simply use the figures
given by this one houss not to draw partic-
ular attention to il, because 1t does the
same as the others and is neither worse nor
better than they.
ITO make "a, coo, 900 yards of carpets,
which is claimed to be the product Of the
, 100 power ingram looms of Philadelphia
outside of those owned by John and James
Dohsnn, if made of pure wool would re-
ouiTe ~, 900, 900 pounds; but as there are
nssd 20, OO0, 900 pounds Of shoddy and %, :
600 600 pounds of other mixtures, only
u. OlO, 900 pounds Of raw wool are used.
The washing and securing will reduce this
to 10. 900, 600 pounds OF clean wool, which
alone can be counted when trying to ascer-
tain the proportion of wool to mixtures
used. Thus we have 10, 900, 900 pounds OF
wool to As, 600, 900 pounds Of adulterants,
or one part of wool to Al of mixtures.
The Messrs Dobson have $50 ingram
power looms. These will use up in year
Of 800 days =, o., 900 pounds of materials,
producing /, $50, 900 yards of ingram car
pets. This will account for 49,, 600 pounds
of clean wool or l, 247, 400 pounds of greasy
wool used for ingram carpets III Dobson's
mill, and rs he claims to import 5000 OOt
pounds, there remain 4,752, 600 to be &C
counted for, and these were probably sp
piled to other uses than for carpets, thus
making q saving or advantage in duty Paic
of "a cents per pound, or q total o.
1856, 445.
Iii the wool was imported under both
rates of duty as applied 10 third class wool
the saving or advantage would only be 81
cents Der pound, or total of 1921, O37. so
The Dobson statement is that the 2, 7OO
mower looms of Philadelphia, outside o.
his consume 1000, 900 pounds of raw
wool, which is at the rate of 10, 900 pounds
per loom per year. At this rate his Isl
looms would consume l. 800, 900 pounds OF
wool, leaving 4, 200, 900 pounds of his i'm
portation of 5000, 900 pounds to be &C
counted for other than in carpets. Thu
would show q saving or advantage in duty
paid of S262, 500 or SSl5, coo.
"But if Mr.. Dobson's statement of the
number of looms in Philadelphia and the
number of days run is correct, then hi
statement of the amount OF materials II
not correct, since the entire $50 looms
! could at the most consume only s., go, OO'
pounds of materials, instead of So, OOO, OO'
rounds as Mr. Dobson's statement woul'
imply.
"His statement is:-