ANNUAL REPORT—MANUFACTURES. 
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Wagons and carriages are also manufactured on a scale that 
entitles them to special attention. Racine and Kenosha still 
hold the supremacy. In these two counties, the amount of 
capital invested, the cost of material used and the value of the 
wagons and carriages manufactured in 1870 were as follows: 
Ilacine. Kenosha. 
Capital invested. $247,100 $121,100 
Cost of materials. 174,321 145,607 
Value of manufactures. 830,000 340,740 
The amount of capital invested in the business in all parts 
of the state is reported at $1,144,215; expenditures for mate¬ 
rial, $862,493 ; value of product, $2,720,463. 
Woolen factories have increased in number, since 1860, from 
11 to 48; in amount of work done, in about the same rates. 
I860 1870 
Capital employed in woolen mills. $100,600 $1, 235, 089 
Value of wool used. 85,743 557,820 
Number of hands employed. 105 577 
No. pounds of yarn reported*. 56,000 
No. pairs blankets reported*. 7, 750 
No. yds. of cloth reported*. 1, 009, 949 
Total value of products. 172, 720 1, 094, 858 
For particulars concerning this interesting and highly im¬ 
portant branch of manufactures, reference is made to the ac¬ 
companying tables. 
* Many mills made no report of yds. of cloth, some no report of yarn, and others none 
of blankets in cases where it is known that such were actually manufactured. 
