INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS. 



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very encouraging. The more important facts and figures 



bearing thereon are given below : 



Census, 1S6U. 



Number of cotton-spindles 



Cotton consumed in pounds)^ 



gross (tare not deducted).) 

 Product, cloth, yam, etc. \_ 



(pounds) V 



Corresponding to yards 



Yards per pound 



5,235,727 

 415,000,000 



301,000,000 



1,200,000,000 

 3^ 



Census, 1870. 



7,132,415 

 396,000,000 



340,000,000 



1,445,000,000 

 4.V 



Estimated, 1ST8. 



10,500,000 

 098,000,000 



586,000,000 



2,037,000,000 

 4* 



The exports of domestic cotton goods for the years below, 

 ending June 30, are as follows : 



Total values. 



1 875. $5,481,000 



1870 9,002,000 



1877 1 0,230,000 



1 878 11,435,000 



The largest export of this class of goods, which was 

 reached in the year ending June 30, 1878, amounted to 

 6^ per cent, of the total production. The export trade has 

 increased in the last three years at an average rate of about 

 60 per cent, yearly in quantity, and 36 per cent, in value. 

 Capital invested in cotton manufactures, 1878, 8208,000,000. 



Our imports of wool, and manufactures thereof, for the 

 nine months ending September 30, 1878, as per the statements 

 of the Bureau of Statistics, were of the value of $23,878,631, 

 a decrease of nearly nine millions as compared with the fig- 

 ures for the corresponding period of 1877. Our exports of 

 these manufactures are as yet insignificant. Statistics of 

 home production to date are not at present available. 



For the twelve months ending December 31, 1878, the 

 value of the exports of merchandise of the United States ex- 

 ceeded that of the imports by $305,343,028. 



