G04 



MANUFACTURES. 



Table shoioing Percentage Rate of Increase and Decrease {the latter marked hy *) 

 in Flour and Grist Mill Products in South Carolina and in the United 

 States, during the two decades embraced in the period from 1S60 to ISSO. 



The impetus this indnstry received during the decade of war and re- 

 construction will be noticed. The rate of increase appears greater in 

 South Carolina than in the country at large in every particular, except 

 two. The increase of capital is markedly less and is explained by the 

 losses of war ; the increase in products is naturally somewhat less also. 

 In the subsequent decade, 1870 to 1880, the rate of increase lessens, but 

 to a less degree in Carolina than in the country at large, and her rate of 

 increase in capital and in products is large. Notable features in this de- 

 cade are the lower rates of increase in the number of establishments, and 

 the actual decrease in the number of hands employed, and Avere it not 

 accompanied in a marked rate of increase of wages, in which Carolina 

 leads, it would almost seem that improved machinery and enlarged cap- 

 ital were assuming entire control of this industry. 



SAWING LUMBER 



ranks, as to value of products, third among the manufacturing industries 

 of the countr)^, the iron and steel industry and meat packing alone ex- 

 ceeding it in this regard. It produces four per cent, of the aggregate 

 products of manufactures iq the United States, and twelve per cent, of 

 these products in South Carolina. The following table exhibits the con- 

 dition of this industry in the United States and in South Carolina, as 

 given in the U. S. Census returns from 1860 to 1880 : 



