U, S. Consul McDoiigalVs Report on Oils and Jute at Dundee. 627 

 Return ofJiax,JHte, and hemp factories in Scotland, September, 18G7. 



"After the American war terminated the trade returned more to its normal 

 condition, but still kept on flourishing to 1873 on account of general trade through- 

 out the world being vigorous. So rapid had been the advancement of the trade 

 in the years 1862 to 1873, that in this last year it was estimated there were upward 

 of 100 jute factories in Dundee and immediate vicinity, emijloying from 60,000 to 

 65,000 hands. I here give a table of the amount of the horse-power in the flax, 

 hemp, and jute mills and factories in Dundee alone in the years stated. The jute- 

 works may be credited with a large share of the increase shown from the years 

 1860 to 1874 : 



Horse-power of mills and factories in Dundee. 



Horse- 

 power. 



In 1808 : 63 



In 1820 Ill 



In 1832 „. 805 



In 1860 4,782 



In 1867 7,032 



In 1874 10,000 



" Up to 1873 most of the jute consumed in the United Kingdom was in and 

 around Dundee, but the manufacture had now begun to extend in different places 

 in this country, on the Continent of Europe, and more especially in Calcutta and 

 other parts of India. This competition (particularly that of Calcutta), combined 

 with the financial panic in the United States in the autumn of 1873, gave the 

 trade a severe check, and it has continued very depressed ever since, with prices 



