COTTON IN AMERICA.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 525, 23 February 1876, Page 3

COTTON IN AMERICA.

(Pall Mall Budget .) From some cotton statistics of the Unit ed States recently published it appears that the number of cotton factories in that county in 1810 was 241, and the number of spindles estimated at 96,400, an average of 400 for each mill. According to a report of a Committee of Congress in 1815, 40,000,000 dols was then invested in cotton manufactures, and 100,000 persons were employed; 27,000,0001bs of cotton were consumed, producing 81,000,000 yards of cloth, valued at 24.300.000 dols. In Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut were 165 mills, with 119,310 spindles ; and it has been estimated that the total number of spindles at that time was 350,000. Power looms soon after coming into general use, the number of spindles increased to 1,500,000 in 1830, and 1.750.000 in 1835. Complete and trustworthy statistics of cotton manufacture seem to have been first reported by the census of 1840. There were then in the United States 1240 mills with 2,284,631 spindles and 120 dyeing and printing establishments. These establishments employed 72,119 hands, and produced goods valued at 46,350,430 dols. The amount of capital invested was 51,102,350 dola. The leading cotton manufacturing States were : Massachusetts, having 278 mills, with 664,095 spindles ; Rhode Island, 269 mills, with 518,817 spindles; New York, 117 mills, with 211,659 spindles; and Connecticut, 116 mills, with 181,319 spindles. In 1850, there were 1094 mills in the United States. In 1860, 1091 mills, with 5,235,727 spindles; and in 1870, 956 mills, with 7,132,415 spindles.