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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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at this period was the large silk flag which waved over the Crystal-Palace Exhibition in New York in 1852. Since then his business has in-creased, prospered, and excited lively competition. In 1857-58 he wasemploying four hundred or five hundred operatives, and consuming twothousand pounds of raw silk a week, — an amount then unprecedented inAmerica. This is the foundation of the Paterson silk-industry. In 1840 Patersonwas but a village of seven thousand inhabitants : now it is a large, beautiful,and flourishing city. Then John Ryle was a poor mechanic, with Ryiesscarcely a friend : he has since won a national reputation. In success-1852 he bought a large piece of property near Passaic Falls, greatly beautifiedit by the arts of landscape-gardening and architecture, and presented it to thepeople of the town as a free public park. Shortly afterward he was electedmayor of Paterson. In 1854 he built the Murray Mill, then one of the largestand best-equipped establishments in the country.
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OF THE UNITED STATES. 441 For nearly twelve years Ryle was without local competition. In 1851-52John Benson, formerly a cotton-manufacturer, started a small silk-mill inPaterson. Three years later, Hamil & Booth began business with twentyoperatives, and gradually developed their business (their establishment, thePassaic Silk-Works, confining itself for fifteen years simply to throwingsilk) ; and soon other small factories were started, some of which were thefoundations of great enterprises. Having thus sketched the foundations of the silk-industry, we pause toconsider some of the causes that gave it development, and hastily to outlineits fuller dimensions. One agency that stimulated manufacture from 1810 to 1840 was theculture of the raw material in this country; but since the last-named date wehave been dependent chiefly upon the foreign supply. Anotheragency was the invention of machinery by Americans. The ^hyrnanu-Hanks Brothers used rude machinery with their water-power, factu

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