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Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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and sold them in competition with the patentee. WThitney had great troublein the courts with these infringers upon his rights, and about all he got for hisinvention was a grant of fifty thousand dollars from the State of South Caro-lina as a reward for his discovery. But if Whitney gained only the emptyfame of his invention, without the substantial rewards to which he was entitled,the United States at any rate profited by it exceedingly. A furore of cotton-planting took place; and so great was the increase of production resultingfrom the introduction of the gin, that, whereas only 138,328 pounds of cottonwere exported from the United States in 1792, the amount exported in 1795was more than 6,000,000 pounds. A proportionate increase took place in thequantity of cotton sent to the Northern States for manufacture. Samuel Salters good luck, and the cheapening of cotton by the inventionof the gin, led to a great extension of factory-spinning in the Northern States OF THE UNITED STATES. 409
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY immediately. Factories were built on the large and powerful mill-streams of Eastern Connecticut, at different places in Massachusetts, andsioSTo^cot-11 elsewnere in New England and the Middle States. They wereton-manu- for the spinning of cotton-yarn, and were neighborhood affairs,th^North designed to supply the farmers and citizens of their respective counties with their material for the weaving of cloth. The girlsand young men who found employment in these factories were of the best bloodof New England. From a report made by Mr. Albert Gallatin, Secretary of theTreasury in 1810, it appears, that, at the close of 1809, there had been erectedCondition of m tne United States eighty-seven cotton-factories, sixty-two ofindustry in which were in operation, and twenty-five of which would probably be completed and ready to go to work in 1810. Of the sixty-two,forty-eight were driven by the power of waterfalls, and fourteen by horse-power.They employed thirty-one thousand

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