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cotton manufactured in South Carolina in 1880 Avas more than four tinier 

 .as much as the entire amount used by the eighty-seven cotton mills of 

 the United States in 1810, according to Mr. Albert Gallatin's report to 

 Congress in that year. It is interesting to note that this greater work 

 performed in 1880 in Carolina engaged but little more than half the 

 capital, half the number of hands, and only about three per cent, more 

 spindles than are shown in 1810 by the enumeration of INIr. Gallatin. 



Owing to the decline of manufactures in South Carolina between 1850 

 and 1860, if the comparison were made between their condition in the 

 last named year and in 1880, their progress would be more clearly 

 marked. But, taking the whole period under consideration, the follow- 

 ing results are exhibited. The United States has increased its spindles 

 by 102 per cent.. South Carolina by 166 per cent. ; the capital engaged 

 in cotton manufactures in the whole country has increased 179 per cent., 

 in South Carolina the gain is 222 per cent. ; the number of hands finding- 

 work in the mills is greater for the United States by 88 per cent., in 

 South Carolina by 101 i:>er cent. ; the value of the products of the cotton 

 mills of the whole country is greater by 191 per cent, in 1880 than it was 

 in 1850, in South Carolina this increase is 246 per cent. ; the increase in 

 the annual consumption of raw material is 160 per cent, for the United 

 States, and for South Carolina it is 248 per cent. Rapid as the develop- 

 ment of this industry thus appears for the country at large, the rate of 

 progress is shown to be greater in each particular in South Carolina. Nor 

 does this complete the statement. 



In the ftxll of 1882, the Department of Agriculture of South Carolina 

 undertook an enumeration of the cotton mills of the State. The data 

 obtained are exhibited in detail in the folio win 2; table : 



