Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication Volume 215, PT. 2, V. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...tanneries, flour mills, sawmills, distilleries, and household manufactures of tow cloth and cotton. They were exporting lumber, flour, and gunpowder, as well as shot and lead.' Throughout the western country, therefore, steam navigation was preceded by a self-sufficient local industry with its own system of dis 31 'lggeank, Iron in All Ages, 282-284; advertisement of William Beal, Kentucky Gazette, Mar., . ' Advertisements in Kentucky Gazette, Feb. 18, Mar. 31, Nov. 24, 1792. ' Ibid., April 6, May 11, 1793; cf. Michaux, Travels to the Westward of the Alleghany Mountain 154.-7 N ' AdV;l 1iSfl8hKS of Thomas Love, in Kentucky Gazette, May 25, 1793; Thomas Hart, in ibia'., ov. 1, 1. ' Advertisements of Israel Hunt and Nicholas Bright, in Kentucky Gazette, Oct. 1,0ct. 8,1796. ' Advertisement of Elijah Craig, in Kentucky Gazette, Jan. 19, 1795. 7 Advertisement, in Kentucky Gazette, Dec. 15, 1797. ' Schoolcraft, A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri, 19; cf. Bradbury, Travels in the Interior of America in the Tear I809, pp. 250-257. ' Schoolcraft, A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri, 43. tribution and exchange. The commerce that originated from this industry and fostered its inchoate specialization was already of wide extent before steam communication quickened its activity and broadened its range. On a June Sunday, in I795, five boats, with an aggregate burden of nearly I00 tons, left a single district in Sumner County, Tennessee, for the lower country, carrying cargoes of whisky, bar and cast iron, bacon, lime, and probably other unspecified local produce.' All of the goods actually enumerated were manufactured. A small cotton factory, with machinery for carding, spinning, and weaving, had been established in the same...