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STATE AGEICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
mentj is so wonderfully furnislied with transfluent and sur¬ 
rounding navigable waters, directly communicating with all 
those states and nations to which we could reasonably look for 
j)urchasers of our manufactures ? 
For some years—during the newness of the country—these 
surprising conditions of a successful and immense manufactur¬ 
ing business, except in the department of lumber, did not ar¬ 
rest the attention and compel the investment of capital. Grad¬ 
ually, however, different branches of manufacture received ac¬ 
cessions of force, so that in 1860, the census rather surprised 
us with the amount that w^as actually being done in this de¬ 
partment ; showing as it did a product, including the construc¬ 
tion of houses, of over $20,000,000—two-fifths as large a sum as 
was that year realized from our agriculture. 
The list of our manufacturing establishments then included, 
among others, 
371 flouring mills, making 2,250,954 barrels of flour and 
yielding an income of $11,073,586 ; 
Tanneries yielding a revenue of $498,268 ; 
136 distilleries and breweries, producing 4,000,000 gallons 
beer and 53,100 gallons whiskey, valued at $804,158; 
Furnaces turning out pigs and castings valued at $377,301; 
Lumber establishments, yielding $4,836,159 ; 
16 woolen factories, with a product of $167,600; 
Establishments for the manufacture of agricultural imple¬ 
ments and machinery, yielding $590,269 ; 
Boots and shoe shops and factories, producing $902,000 ; 
Cabinet shops, having a total income of $402,326; 
Wood and willow factories, producing $329,755 : 
Paper mills making $143,566 worth of paper ; 
Wagon shops producing $449,410 ; and 
A multitude of other kinds of establishments yielding les¬ 
ser amounts. 
But since 1860, in many important branches, more progress 
has been made than in all the previous years of our history ; 
while several in which we are destined to do a leading business, 
but which had not been introduced before, have been recently 
