Statistics of the Condition and Products of Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, for the Year Ending April 1, 1845 |
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STATISTICS OF THE CONDITION & Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwe,John Gorham 1796-1881 Palfrey No preview available - 2016 |
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anthracite coal consumed articles m'd bar iron barley bbls beeswax bituminous coal Bonnets and Hats boots and shoes Boots m'd Bricks m'd Building Stone quarried bush Butter Cabinet Ware Manufactories Cap Manufactories castings m'd Chair and Cabinet cheese consumed in manufacturing cords Corn or Maize cotton consumed Cotton Mills esculent vegetables Establishments excepting cotton feet Fire Wood prepared Fruit raised galls Hands employ'd Harness and Trunk hides tanned Hollow Ware honey Horses Indian Corn leather tanned Lumber prepared Maize raised Merino Sheep merino wool produced neat cattle oats pairs Palm-leaf Hats m'd Pig Iron potatoes production consumed Pumps m'd quarried and prepared Rail-road Cars Saddle sets of machinery soap m'd Sperm Oil consumed spindles straw braid m'd swine tanned and curried Tanneries Tin Ware Manufactories tons Trunk Manufactories vehicles m'd Ware and Castings whale oil wheat wool and iron Woollen Mills yarn m'd
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Page iii - Secretary was directed to prepare blank table?, conveniently arranged for the return of those facts, with blank columns for returns of similar particulars not enumerated, and to furnish three copies, with a copy of the law, to the assessors of each town, on or before the first day of May. The assessors were allowed a stipulated sum for each day's service in making and reporting their investigations, to be paid from the treasury of the commonwealth, and weie subjected to a fine for neglect. The Secretary...
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 iv - The collection of facts, and the amonnt of products exhibited, is much larger, as was to be expected from the growth of the population, and the increased activity in the manufacturing and mechanical arts, as well as from the more thorough investigation required by the recent law, the more just appreciation of the object prevailing at the present time among our citizens, and the experience acquired by many of the assessors in conducting the former inquiries.
Page iii - Mr. Palfrey in the introductory advertisement to the document, thus explains the provisions for collecting the information, and the plan adopted in its arrangement, &c. " The territory of Massachusetts, consisting of about 7,500 square miles, is divided into 309 towns. The general court of the year 1845 passed an act (chapter 171) ' to obtain statistical information in relation to certain branches of industry.
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 iii - The result of this action appears in the following pages. It is probable that the statements are far from presenting a complete view of the industry of the Commonwealth, in either of the departments to which they relate. All the towns made returns, and the assessors are sworn officers. But in some instances, (as in the towns of Ware and Stoughton, in which are one woollen and six cotton mills,) their applications for information were denied, and as, in all instances, the answers of interested parties...
Page iii - ... enumerated, and to furnish three copies, with a copy of the law, to the assessors of each town, on or before the first day of May. The assessors were allowed a stipulated sum for each day's service in making and reporting their investigations, to be paid from the treasury of the commonwealth, and weie subjected to a fine for neglect. The Secretary was instructed to prepare and print an abstract from the returns for the use of the legislature. The result of this action appean in the following...
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,...