TOWNS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 701 



Mechanical and Manufacturing Industries of Columbia, S. C, in 1880. 



Capital. 





Wages. 



Materials. Products 



Blacksmithing 



Boots and shoes .... 



Bread and baking products 



Carpentering 



Flouring and grist mill 

 products 



Foundry and machine 

 shop products .... 



Painting and paper hang- 

 ing 



Photographing 



Printing and publishing . 



Tin, copper and sheet-iron 

 ware 



All other industries . . . 



Total • • 



12 



52 



'$3,815 

 2.650 

 7,700 

 3,450 



8,680 



58,000 



1,260 



3,200 



16,000 



16,050 

 20,050 



17 



6 



15 



32 



16 



7 



4 



56 



9 

 46 



$140,855 



293 



$4,875 

 1,760 

 4,350 

 8,550 



2,154 



22,354 



2,165 



750 



27,175 



1,510 

 9,190 



$84,833 



$6,250 



2,200 



23,232 



14,900 



53,295 



30,039 



4,526 

 1,400 

 9,300 



2,800 

 18,212 



$166,754 



$15,300 



4,700 



31,450 



28,825 



61,049 



89,202 



8,915 



5,300 



50,200 



6,050 

 41,741 



$842,732 



This statement does not include the products of the manufacture of 

 gas, nor of Cjuarrying, or the statistics of establishments owned and ope- 

 rated by the railroad companies and by the State. The large railroad 

 shops located in Columbia, the gas works, the manufacturing operations 

 carried on in the penitentiary shops, would augment greatly the above 

 figures. Even without these, the thirty hands of the two quarries, 

 those of the brewery, ice factory, and the five hundred bricklayers 

 and carpenters constantly employed in the town, would swell the number 

 of skilled workmen to be found here, A cotton seed oil mill* is being 

 erected, and when the work on the canal, which is being done by the 

 State, is completed, and power for several large factories furnished, Co- 

 lumbia will be a manufacturing centre of considerable importance. 



The population in 1820 was 4,000, and it was about the same in 1840. 



* Before 1802 Mr. Benjamin Waring established an oil mill here, and obtained half 

 a jiallon of oil from one bushel of cotton seed. Mr. Stephen Brown had at that time a 

 valuable rope walk here. ]\Ir. Waring, and subsequently Mr. Herbemont, engaged here 

 successfully in grape culture. 



