MANUFACTURES.

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tures^" Brought forward .... 16,280

— . Worsted 12 to 20 gauge, 4400; 22 to 26

gauge, 3600; 28 to 34 gauge, 1450 frames 9,450Angola , 1350 ; lamb’s wool, 1900 ; shirts, 500

frames. 3,750

Wide frames with worsted goods. 520

Silk, 2300; gloves, 350 ; and knots, 350.. • • 3,000

Total of frames .... 33,000The following statement, it is believed, presents asufficiently accurate approximation to the annual amountin quantity and value of goods manufactured in thistrade to answer all practical purposes. Each narrow cot-ton frame produces about 40 dozen of hose a-year, it ofwomen’s size ; wide cotton frames 300 ; narrow worsted75; wide worsted 150; and silk 30. There are

10,300 frames making fashionable cotton hose whichproduce 420,000 dozens, and consume 880,000 poundsof cotton yarn valued at £73,000, wages for makingwhich £220,000, and finishing £32,000, total £325,000.

6000 frames making cut-ups, &c., produce 1,960,000dozens, and consume 2,940,000 pounds of cotton yarnvalued at £172,000, wages for making which £285,000,and finishing £98,000, total £555,000.

9500 frames making fashionable worsted produce710,000 dozens, and consume 2,840,000 pounds ofworsted valued at £284,000, wages for making' which£215,000, and finishing £41,000, total £540,000.

1000 frames making cut-ups, &c., produce 100,000dozens, and consume 400,000 pounds of worsted valuedat £40,000, wages for making which £30,000, andfinishing £10,000, total £80,000.

1300 frames making angola produce 95,000 dozens,and consume 332,500 pounds of worsted valued at£4 5,000, wages for making which £40,000, and finish-ing £19,000, total £104,000.

1900 frames making lamb’s wool produce 135,000dozens, and consume 639,500 pounds of worsted valueda t £80,000, wages for making which £50,000, andfinishing £16,000, total £146,000.

3000 frames making silk produce 90,000 dozens, andconsume 105,000 pounds of silk valued at £120,000,''[ages for making which £108,000, and finishing£13,000, total £241,000.

Total 33,000 frames, which produce 3,510,000 dozens,using S,137,000 pounds of materials of £814,000 value,to which add wages £948,000, and finishing £229,000,total £1,991,000.

According to this calculation, the value of the cottonhosiery annually made is £880,000; that of worsted, &c.

*®70,000 ; and that of silk is £241,000. To producehese goods it is probable that 4,584,000 pounds of rawcotton wool, value £153,000, are used, and 140,000pounds of raw silk, (two-fifths China and three-fifthsp 0vi ), value £91.000, also 6,318,000 pounds ofnglish wool, value £316,000. The total original value° the materials used is, therefore, £560,000, which,£l Q^P ears ’ become of the ultimate cost value of>991,000 in this manufacture. There are employed>n the various processes as follows, viz.,

11 cotton spinning, doubling, &c. 3000 persons;worsted carding, spinning, &c. 2500 ; silk

winding, throwing, &c. 1000 ... . 6,500

An making stockings 13,000 men, 10,000women, 10,000 youths; women and childrenm seaming and winding, &c. 27,000 . 60,000

Carried forward .... 66,500

Brought forward .... 66,500 MechanicalIn embroidering, mending, bleaching, dyeing, Processes,

dressing, putting up, &c. probably about... 6,500 v v-—

Total persons employed .... 73,000

The capital employed in the various branches of thetrade may be thus estimated, taking the machinery andframe at neither their original cost nor actual sellingprice, but at their working value, and the stocks ofhosiery on an average of years.

The capital in mills and machinery for pre-paring cotton is . 70,000

Ditto worsted, &c... 52,000

Ditto silk. 18,000

Fixed capital in mills, &c. 140,000

Ditto in frames. 245,000

Total of fixed capital... . £385,000

In wool and yarn in process and stock ... 85,000

Ditto worsted, &c. 150,000

Ditto silk. 35,000

Floating capital in spinning, &c. £270,000

Capital in narrow cotton frames. 62,000

Ditto wide. 60,000

Ditto in narrow worsted frames. 76,000

Ditto in wide. 11,000

Ditto in silk frames. 36,000

Fixed capital in frames... . £245,000

In goods in process and stock. 350,000

Ditto... . 345,000

Ditto. 85,000

Floating capita! in making hose. 780,000

Ditto in spinning, &c. 270,000

Total of floating capital.. £1,050,000

The number of frames in each locality has verymaterially varied since 1812. Many have been widenedto make two stockings at once, and about 5000 wideframes are making cut-up work. The quantity of cottongoods made now is probably more than half as largeagain as at that time* Then there were about 100hosiers at Nottingham, now there are but about 40.The number in Derby has varied little ; but in Leicesterit has increased. One house employs upwards of3000 frames ; a second about 2000 ; a third and fourthabout 1800 each ; a fifth 1500 ; and other various smallernumbers. Many of these are their own property, and anannual rent of about 40s. coarse, 50s. fine, 75s. silk, and100s. wide frames, is paid for each by the workmen.This rent has always been considered an importantsource of income to the hosiers, and an important deduc-tion by the hands : at present it amounts to about one-sixth of their earnings, and is, in fact, a payment ofone per cent, weekly of the full market value of themachine. Many thousand of narrow frames havebeen bought at £4 or £6 a-piece, but probably all ofthem needed repairs, and every six or seven yearsfurther reparation, to a greater or less amount, will beneeded. Some hands will wear down a frame in threeyears ; others, however, will work them twelve or eventwenty years without serious repairs, or, as it is technically called a ’'“rmt. Each six years’ recruit mav cost£5; and thus 1000 frames, bought at £5 each Would5 a ’

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