Knight's cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851 / [edited by George Dodd].

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[1851]
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Credit: Knight's cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851 / [edited by George Dodd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dencies took the enormousA'alue of 81,687,051 dollars; considerably more than half of which was comprised in the single article of cotton. The following table shows the progress of the population and wealth of New York:— Value of Real and Year. Population. Personal Estate, 1800 60,489 24,486,370 dollars. 1810 .... 93,373 .... 69,530,753 „ 1820 .... 123,706 .... 69,530,573 „ 1825 .... 166,086 .... 101,160,046 „ 1830 .... 202,589 .... 125,283,518 „ 1835 .... 270,089 .... 218,723,703 „ 1840 .... 312,852 .... 252,843,103 „ 1845 .... 371,223 239,938,317 „ 1850 .... 517,849 .... 256,217,093 „ To show how the various states of the Ame- rican Union stand related in respect to ship- building, we give the numbers for the year ending June 1850 :— States. Maine , New Hampshire.., Vermont Massachusetts .... Pbhode Island...... Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Mai7lahd District of Columbia Vhginia N. Cai'olina Georgia Florida Alabama Loitisiana Kentucky Missouii Illinois Ohio Michigan Texas Oregon 1 2 1 1 32 3 31 Total 159 1,350 34 16 ■a d O 320 10 1 121 14 43 224 57 185 16 150 8 34 .33 5 2 3 24 34 5 13 31 14 1 2 o a rican and 9816 foreign. The tonnage of these vessels was 4,301,002 tons. The total of the crews entered as belonging to those vessels was 195,871. Erom New York alone the number of ships cleared was no less than 2818, of 1,106,070 tons. In the first nine months of 1850, there were 19 steam ships and 18 saihng vessels launched at New York; and at the end of that period there were 19 other steamers and 12 other sailing vessels building. The numbers of passengers which have arrived at New York during the last ten years ai'e as foUow :— Year. Passengers. Vessels. 1841 57,337 2,118 1842 74,949 1,960 1843 46,302 1,832 1844 01,002 2,208 1845 82,960 2,044 1840 115,230 2,289 1847 166,110 3,147 1848 19] ,909 3,060 1840 221,799 3,237 1850 126.287 3,489 94,211 73 0,914 32 77 41 35,830 14 3,537 15 4,819 79 53,342 73 6,201 68 21,409 93 1,813 82 15,904 80 288 17 3,534 04 2,691 55 683 82 79 75 118 66 1,582 38 6,460 69 1,353 82 1,091 21 ^214 02 ,061 63 105 54 122 42 270,117 80 25,384 In the year ending June 1850, the merchant ships which left ports of tlio United States amounted to 18,195, of which 8379 were Ame- 1,143,885 In June 1850 the length of the inland mail routes xa the United States fnot includmg Oregon and California) was 178,672 miles; and the annual transport on those roads amounted to 46,541,423 miles. The number of post ofaces in the United States m that month was 18,417. On January 1, 1851, the lengOi of Eailways in the United States amounted to nearly 9000 miles, and the cost to upwai-ds of 60,000,000/. sterhug. Tbey were distributed among the states in the following ratios:— Miles. New York.... 1402 NewHampshire, 452 Ehode Island. 50 Mauie 220 Vermont 348 Massachusetts 1056 Connecticut.. 513 New Jersey .. 259 Pennsylvania. 017 Delaware 17 Mai-yland.... 322 Vu'ginia 384 NorthCai-ohna, 249 SouthCai-oUna, 271 Georgia ''16 Alabama H^i Florida Mississippi .. 90 Louisiana.... ^9 Tennessee... 33 Cost. 56,202,000 dollai-s. 15,040,080 ,, 2,014,484 „ 5,765,518 „ 10,038,897 „ 48,235,997 ,, 15,245,508 ,, 8,225,000 „ 35,008,033 :, 600,000 :, 13,044,172 7,378,349 4,000,000 „ 6,243,078 „ 11,572.280 ,, 950,000 280,000 „ 795,000 603,000 ;, GOO.OOO „