Digest of Accounts of Manufacturing Establishments in the United States, and of their Manufactures: 1820

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Digest of Accounts of Manufacturing Establishments in the United States, and of their Manufactures: 1820

1823

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Digest of accounts of manufacturing establishments in the United States, and of their manufactures. Made under direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of a resolution of Congress, of 30th March, 1822.

The results of the inquiry as to the manufactures of the United States are presented in separate tables for each district (State) and Territory by counties. For each type of manufactured article information is given as to market value, kind of raw material employed, quantity of raw material annually consumed, cost of such raw material, men employed, women employed, boys and girls employed, whole quantity and kind of machinery, quantity of machinery in operation, amount of capital invested, amount paid annually for wages, amount of the contingent expenses, and general observations. There is no summary of the published data for the United States as a whole, presumably because of the incompleteness of the returns.

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