Manufactures of the United States In 1860
Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Manufactures of the United States in 1860: Compiled From the Original Returns of the Eighth Census, Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior The growth of the culture and manufacture of cotton in the United States constitutes the most striking feature of the industrial history of the last fifty years.
Commencing properly with the erection of the first water frame for spinning, in Rhode Island, in 1790, it has attracted in a marked degree the enterprise and ingenuity of the American people, and is now an established industry in twenty-nine States of the Union. It exceeds all other branches of pure manufacture in value of product, and in the employment which it gives to capital and labor, to agri culture and the domestic arts, and to internal and foreign trade. Its annual product in 1860 was about one-sixteenth of the aggregate of all branches of industry, including the large items of flour and meal, sawed and planed lumber, the fisheries, and of coal and the baser metals. Its ratio of development has exceeded that of the population, and in the last twenty years has been 150 per cent; population in the same time having augmented only per cent.
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