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and maple,) Wax, Hops, Flax, Silk, Wine, Butter, Cheese, Barley and Buckwheat, previously mentioned, and Live Stock. The estimated value of annual farm products is $57,845,940.
MANUFACTORIES.
Agriculture being the leading occupation, as above stated, manufactures occupy an altogether secondary and subordinate place. But the facilities for many branches of manufacture are unsurpassed. Among the advantages may be mentioned first, the unlimited water power developed by the large rivers (previously described,) and their tributaries, in their flow 7 from the mountains to the sea, through a descent of more than 1,000 feet; second, the abundance and w 7 ide distribution of fuel; third, the w T ide range and great abundance of raw materials, at hand, as Cotton, Tobacco, Lumber of all sorts, Iron ores and a great variety of farm products; fourth, the abundance and cheapness of labor, as compared w 7 ith the Northern States; fifth, facilities for producing everything required by a manufacturing population, and sixth, a favoring climate—no obstructive ice. And as a matter of fact, those few capttalists w'ho have embarked in enterprises of this sort find them very profitable; as for example, the cotton manufacturer, w 7 hose profits exceed 20 per cent.
The following list of manufactures wdll show that already some attention has been diverted from the production of cotton and tobacco to the more profitable business of converting these agricultural products into more valuable forms.
KIND.
NUMBER. VALUE ANNUAL PRODUCTS.
Cotton,
36
$ 1,345,052
Tobacco,
110
718,765
Turpentine,
147
2,338,309
Lumber,
533
2,107,314
Fisheries,
42
265,813
Iron, Wool, Paper,
Wood, Leather, &c\,
13,315,636
$19,825,076