Statistics of the Condition and Products of Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, for the Year Ending April 1, 1845

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Page 371 - ... and 19 towns between 4,000 and 5,000 inhabitants. The industrial statistics of the State were first collected in 1837. They then exhibited an annual production of $ 86,282,616. In 1845 the amount was $ 124,749,457. In 1855 it had increased to 8 295,820,081.
Page 88 - ... anchors and other articles; amount of capital invested; number of hands employed ; the number of furnaces for the manufacture of pig iron; number of tons of pig iron manufactured ; value of the pig iron; amount of capital invested in said business ; number of hands employed in same. The number of furnaces for the manufacture of hollow ware and castings other than pig iron; number of tons of hollow ware and other castings manufactured; value of hollow ware and castings ; amount of capital invested...
Page 145 - ... tons of anthracite coal consumed in said establishments. Value of anthracite coal consumed. Quantity of bituminous coal, mined in the United States, consumed in said establishments. Value of said bituminous coal. Quantity of foreign bituminous coal consumed. Value of foreign bituminous coal. Value of all other articles of American production, excepting cotton, wool, and iron, consumed by said manufacturing establishments. Value of all other articles of foreign productions, excepting as above,...
Page 128 - ... manufacture of carpeting. Number of yards of carpeting manufactured. Value of carpeting manufactured. Amount of capital invested in said business. Number of males employed in the manufacture of carpeting. Number of females employed in same. Wonted goods, The number of establishments for the manufacture of *"• worsted goods, or goods of which worsted is a component part. Number of yards of such goods manufactured during said year. Value of the same. Number of pounds of worsted yarn manufactured,...

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