Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1881 — Cotton Manufacture in the United States. [ARTICLE]

Cotton Manufacture in the United States.

The following is a preliminary report to the Census Bureau upon the specific cotton manufacture of the United States, exhibiting the number of looms, spindles, the number of bales of cotton consumed and the number of operatives employed :

£ £> to § U "e » : I M STATZS. ; _• £ i \ United States.. 230,223 10,921,147 1.586,481 181,6'28 Alabama 1,060 55,072 14,887 1,603 Arkansas 28 2,015 720 64 Connecticut.... 18,036 931,538 107,877 15,497 Delaware 82*'- 48,858 7,512 695 Florida 816 350 33 Georgia 4,713 200,974 67,874 6,678 Illinois 24 4,860 2,261 281 Indiana 776 33,396 11,558 723 Kentucky 73 9,022 4,215 859 Louisiana 120 6,096 1,354 108 Maine 15,978 696,685 112,361 11,319 Maryland 2,325 125,014 46,947 4,159 Massachusetts. 94,788 4,445,290 578,590 62,794 Michigan 131 12,120 600 208 Mississippi.... 704 26,172 6,411 7iß Missouri 341 19,312 6,639 515 New Hampshire 25,487 1,008,521 172,746 16,657 New Jersey.... 3,344 232,395 20,569 4,658 New York 12,822 578,512 70,014 10,710 N. Carolina.... 1,96‘J 192,767 27,508 8,428 Ohio 42 14,328 10,597 563 Pennsylvania... 10,541 446,379 86,355 11,871 Rhode Island.. 30,274 1,649,295 161,694 22,228 8. Carolina.... 1,776 92,788 33,099 2,195 Tennessee.. .. 1,068 46,268 11,699 1,312 Texas 71 2,648 246 71 Utah 14 432 29 Vermont 1,180 55,088 7,404 735 Virginia 1,324 44,336 11,461 1,112 Wisconsin 400 10,210 3,173 282

The above does not include the hosiery mills or any of the mills known as woolen mills where cotton may be a component material used in the manufacture.