CENSUS STATISTICS OF FOREST PRODUCTS. 



385" 



(a.) Lumher yards and trade, 1840. 



(b) Products of tlie forest, 18i0. 



The census of 1840 reported 8,229 tacneries, employing the labor of 

 26,018 men and $15,650,929 in capital. They produced'3,463,611 sides of 

 sole-leather and 3,781,868 sides of upper leather, and, on a rough esti- 

 mate, u.sed at least half a million cords of bark. Among the industries 

 consuming large amounts of timber and lumber, we find ships and ves- 

 sels worth 87,016,094, and furniture worth $7,555,405, as made during 

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