CHAPTER IX. 

 MANUFACTURES. 



TABLE OF COTTON FACTORIES IN MEXICO CONSUMPTION PRO- 

 DUCTION. INCREASE OF FACTORIES DAY AND NIGHT WORK. 



DEFICIT OF MATERIAL WATER AND STEAM POWER MEXI- 

 CAN MANUFACTURES GENERALLY. 



Tabular Statement of the Cotton Factories in Mexico, their Consumption 

 and Production in 1844. 



States. 



No. of factories. 



Spindles in opera- 

 tion. 



Spindles erecting. 



Total. 



No. of looms. 



Quintals of cotton 

 consumed weekly. 



Weekly product 

 of pounds of 

 cotton twist. 



Weekly product 

 of pieces of cot- 

 ton cloth. 



Weekly expenses. 



Durango. . . 

 Guanajuato 



5 

 1 

 4 

 17 

 21 

 2 

 ] 

 8 



59 



5,560 

 500 



8,904 

 23,894 

 37,396 



5,400 



2,198 

 22,856 



816 



800 

 5,664 



200 

 5,842 

 4,200 



6.376 

 800 

 14,568 

 24,094 

 42,874 

 9,600 

 2,198 

 24,848 



140 



139 

 10 

 228 

 401 

 691 

 137 

 71 

 361 



400 

 900 

 16,800 

 36,000 

 61.710 

 10,000 



778 



#1,795 

 150 

 2,450 

 8,413 

 6,154 

 2,400 

 385 

 5,510 



220 

 1,187 

 530 

 112 

 54 

 366 





Mexico. . . . 



Queretaro. . 

 Sonora .... 

 Vera Cruz . 



3,277 

 1,290 



400 

 57 



733 



1,992 



35,835 



106,708 



18,654 



125,362 



2,609 



2,038 



161,654 



6,535 



#27,257 



Very few returns are wanting to make this table perfect in every respect. 



From this summary it appears that the total number of spindles 

 in operation and in course of erection in the republic in the year 

 1844, — anterior to the war and during a period of comparative 

 progress, — amounted to 125,362, together with 2609 looms in the 

 fifty-nine factories of cotton stuffs and twist. These factories con- 

 sumed, weekly, 2038 quintals of cotton, and gave, according to the 

 table, a weekly product of 161,654 lbs. of cotton twist, a portion of 

 which they converted into 6535 pieces of cotton cloth, the remain- 

 der being sold for the consumption of private and scattered hand 

 looms throughout the country. An intelligent and experienced 

 manufacturer, acquainted with Mexican factories, and at present re- 

 siding in this country, calculates with apparent justice, that 2038 



