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fringe-silk, 18,845 pounds, $109,270; floss-silk, 6,300 pounds, $43,000; 
sewing-silk, 82,857 pounds, $917,809; machine-twist, 414,285 pounds, 
$4,848,839; dress-silks, $1,400,000; millinery and neck-tie silks, $1,163,961; 
haiWkerchiefs, $313,315 ; foulards, $500,000; ribbons, $2,776,836 ; braids 
and bindings, $308,790; laces, $103,000; veils and veiling, $33,706; 
military trimmings, $68,000; upholstery trimmings, $340,000; ladies’ 
dress trimmings, $3,444,700. In this manufacture were consumed 
897,946 pounds of reeled silks, worth $8,829,973; 140,000 pounds of spun 
silks, worth $800,000, making 1,037,946 pounds of silk thread, valued at 
$9,629,973. Of this amount 497,142 pounds, worth $5,766,648, were con- 
. Sumed in sewings and twist, leaving but 540,804 pounds, worth $3,863,325, 
for woven fabrics. The total amount paid for wages was $4,497,319, 
making an outlay for labor and raw material of $14,127,092, leaving a 
balance of $5,955,390 for profits and expenses of administration. The . 
total amount of capital invested was $14,708,184, which, divided among 
180 establishments, gives an average of $81,716. The average of annual 
products was $111,569. The total number of hands employed was 14,479, 
averaging 80 to each establishment; of this number 4,086 were males 
above sixteen ; 1,048 males under sixteen; 6,858 females above sixteen, 
and 2,487 females below that age. 
Of the different branches of this industry, thrown and spun silks em- 
brace 26 establishments, half being in New Jersey, with machinery of 
1,003 horse-power, driving 129,178 throwing-spindles; the number of hands 
employed was 4,062; amount paid for wages, $945,710; capital invested, 
$4,252,152; total product, $3,863,325, including tram and organzine, 
$2,911,055, spun silk, $800,000, fringe-silk,$109,270, and floss-silk, $43,000; 
total weight of product, 540,804 pounds. It is noticeable that the two 
establishments of Connecticut produce about two-thirds of the aggre- 
gate of the 13 establishments in New Jersey, with less than a third of 
the spindles and two-thirds of the horse-power; but the capital invested 
in the Connecticut factories is $1,767,300, against $1,577,070 in those of 
New Jersey; New York has 4 factories, Pennsylvania 6, and California 
1; but these are on a smaller scale. 
Sewing-silks and machine-twist occupy 42 factories with machinery of 
605 horse-power, driving 39,665 spindles; number of hands employed, 
3,212; aggregate of wages, $793,391; capital invested, $3,586,996 ; 
total value of products, $5,776,648, including sewing-silks, $917,809, 
and twist, $4,848,839 ; total weight of goods produced, 497,142 pounds. 
Massachusetts, with 7 factories, produces about two-fifths of this aggre- 
gate, $2,072,163, and has the largest amount of capital invested, 
$1,258,290, as well as the largest number of hands employed, 1,146. 
Connecticut, with 19 establishments, employs 1,051 hands, and produces 
$1,904,885 from an invested capital of $1,153,433. New Jersey has 6 
establishments; New York 5; Pennsylvania 2; California, New Hamp- 
shire, and Vermont 1 each. 
Broad goods and ribbons employ 42 factories with machinery of 355 
horse-power, driving 1,189 power-looms and: 496 ribbon power-looms. 
There are also 779 hand-looms, and the average number of shuttles of 
each establishment is 7,935; number of hands employed, 4,092; total 
of wages, $1,201,579; capital invested, $2,836,696; total production, 
$6,154,313, including dress-silks, $1,400,000; millinery and neck-tie silks, 
$1,163,961; handkerchiefs, $313,516; foulards, $500,000; ribbons, 
32,776,836. New Jersey, with 21 factories, produces nearly half of this 
aggregate, $2,987,467, employing 2,255 hands, and $1,492,584 of capital, 
and paying for labor $616,588. New York, with 11 establishments, and 
Connecticat, with 2, produce each about half as much as New Jersey 
