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Title: Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia : embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Edwards, Richard
Subjects: Virginia -- Gazetteers Virginia -- Statistics
Publisher: Richmond : Published for the proprietor
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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amounts to §100,915. Quantities and kinds of grain,etc., consumed—barley 20,000 bushels, corn 250,700 bushels,rye 62,680 bushels, oats 450 bushels, and lio^^s 14 tons; handsemployed 123 ; qualities of liquor produced—ale, etc., 5,500 bar-rels, and whiskey, etc., 879,440 gallons. In the census year1840, Virginia had 1,454 distilleries, producing in the year865,725 gallons; and 5 breweries, producing 32,960 gallons;hands employed 1,631, and capital invested §187,212. The manufactures, others than the above specified, consist ofa great variety of important productions, as machinery of allkinds, carriages, harness, etc.; and Virginia has also a largenumber of merchant and other mills. As a flour-producingState, it stands first in its brands, and is only behind one ortwo other States in the extent of production. It has also largeand valuable tobacco manufactories. Foreign Commerce.—Virginia, in respect of foreign commerce, * 12 90 RICHMOND BUSINESS DIRECTORY. M ElO no c EhQ I—IP
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51 • I—( (— ^ • - tc O) -1-3 go o 02 02 O c3 02 P == 5o :s ^.S O) o oo Eh o eg o § « ■H C GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 91 holds a seventh or eighth rank among the States of the Union.Accordinjr to the official returns for the year endino; 30th June,1850, the value of its exports to foreign countries amounted to$3,415,646, and of its imports to $426,599. This would indicatethat the great hulk of its commercial material is carried to theports of other States for exportation, and the foreign merchan-dise consumed within the State is hrought tlirougli tlie samechannels. That such is the case is well known, and hence wefind that the coasting trade is unusually extensive, chiefly car-ried on hy the shipping of northern ports. This was not alwaysso, for at one time Virginia stood at the head of the commercialStates, and its shipping held the same rank in foreign ports asthat now occupied hy the mercantile marine of New York. Ofthe total exports in 18

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