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material is exhaustive, and is fast disappearing. The lumber
statistics are hard to sum up between the labor and the lumber pre-
pared for market. Iu some instances the labor is reckoned from
the cutting down of the tree, till it is ready for the market, while
in many other cases, it commences at the mill, which is not half
the expense of the labor. The price per thousand, for lumber
standing, (especially in the northern section of the State,) is merely
nominal, compared with that of the sawed timber, ready for sale, and
the whole increase is in labor, capital, and profit. The labor here
given in as $ 1,209,600 annually, falls short, no doubt, more than
$ 1,000,000 of the true amount. There are 762 saw mills in the
State, representing a capital of $ 3,272,000, employing 3,392 hands,
a part, or whole of the year, who are represented, as annually re-
ceiving for their labor, $ 1,209,600, and sawing 6,528,000 clapboards,

69,508,000 shingles and laths, and 305,048,000 feet of boards and
dimension timber valued at $ 5,174,900. This amount includes
lumber sawed, planed, and grooved.

Tanneries. The next important business is tanning leather.
The number of tanneries in the State, is 71 ; capital invest-
ed, $ 927,000 ; number of hands employed, the whole or part of the
year, is 693 ; annual pay-roll, $347,500; value of leather tanned,
8 3,265,100. The currying business and dressed skins, is about
8 1,720,000 annually.

Paper. The paper manufactures have increased their business
over fifty per cent since 1870. The receipts, at that t me, were
$ 1,913,635 ; at the present time it is nearly $ 3,000,000 annually.

Hosiery. The number of persons employed in this business, is
295 males, and 880 females; value of goods manufactured, $ 2,016,
000. There are but three States in the Union which exceed New-
Hampshire in this branch of industry. (See tables.)

Furniture, Chairs, &e. The receipts from this business, are over
8 2,000,000 annually.

The above are some of the most important branches of industry
but there are many others that are important, such as flour and
meal productions, $ 3,563,400; sash, blinds, and doors, $700,000;
freight and passenger cars, $ 650 000; carriages, of all kind*,
$ 1,100,000; potato starch, $ 400,000 ; harnesses, $ 500,000 ; granite
dressed, $ 1,000,000 ; musical instruments, $ 200,000 ; agricultural
implements, $ 275,000 &c.

The total number of manufactories, of all kinds, in the State, is