UNITED STATES, THE CENSUS OF. 



URUGUAY. 



857 



employes, 6,116; amount of working capital, 

 $1,333,125; total capital, $31,675,096. The 

 Lake Superior region furnishes 90'48 per cent 

 of the entire product, and most of the rest is 

 from Vermont and North Carolina. 



The production of precious metals during the 

 year ending June 1, 1880, as returned by the 

 census authorities, comprised 1,614,741 ounces 

 of gold, valued at $33,379,663, and 31,797,474 

 ounces of silver, worth $41,110,957, making a 

 total value of $74,490,620. The production 

 of deep mines included in the above was 1,033,- 

 974 ounces of gold, valued at $21,374,152, and 

 31, 717,297 ounces of silver, worth $41,007,296; 

 total, $62,381,448. The total yield of placer- 

 mines was $12,109,172, including 580,767 

 ounces of gold, worth $12,005,511, and 80,177 

 ounces of silver, valued at $103,661. The ag- 

 gregate product of all mines by States geo- 

 graphically classified was as follows : 



STATE OR TERRI- 



The following estimate of the production of 

 the precious metals in the United States from 

 the year 1848, when the first extensive work- 

 ing for gold was in operation in California, 

 until 1880, and the yield of silver during the 

 same period, prepared by Horatio C. Bur- 

 chard, Director of the Mint, although the fig- 

 ures for 1880 differ slightly from those of 

 the census for that year, affords a compari- 

 son of the present yield with that of former 

 years : 



The census returns of silk-manufactures 

 show that there were in the United States 

 383 factories, with 8,467 looms. The gross 

 value of materials and supplies was $22,371,- 

 300 ; gross value of manufactured products, 

 $40,975,285 ; net value of manufactured prod- 

 ucts, that is, value of finished goods, $34,410,- 

 463 ; greatest number of hands employed at 

 any one time during the year, 34,440 ; total 

 amount of wages paid during the year, $9,107,- 

 835 ; capital, real and personal, invested in the 

 business, $18,899,500. Of the $34,410,463 of 

 finished products, $12,851,045 is credited to 

 New Jersey, $9,268,585 to New York, $5,438,- 

 075 to Connecticut, $3,491,093 to Massachu- 

 setts, and $2,853,165 to Pennsylvania. The 

 finished products of all mills in the United 

 States comprised the following goods: 



Sewing-silk. . . $776.1 20 



Machine-twist 6,000,266 



Floss-silk 219,250 



Dress-goods 4,1 15,206 



Satins 1,101,876 



Tie-silks and scarfs 



Millinery silks 



Other broad goods 



Handkerchiefs 



Klbbons 



I .aces '. 



Braids and bindings 



Fringes and dress-trimmings 



Cords, tassels, passementeries, and millinery 



trimmings 



Upholstery and military trimmings 



Coach-laces and carriage-trimmings 



Undertakers', hatters', and fur trim:nlngs 



Mixed goods and silk values therein 510,763 



891,955 



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3,862,550 

 5,966,005 



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0W,680 



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Total $84,410,468 



URUGUAY (REpfJBLicA ORIENTAL DEL URC- 

 OUAY), sometimes also called BAXDA ORIENTAL. 

 This republic, with an area of 72,170 square 

 miles, is divided into thirteen departments, 



