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Deduct the value of manufactures included in the above, not the product of Richmond, viz :—

Agricultural implements..

Furniture..

Carriages.

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1,500

15,000

20,000

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350,000

32,278

136,500

125,350

272,500

Leather...

Guns, &c

Paper hangings...

Total.....

RECAPITULATION.

$15,000

120,000

60,000

130,000

15,000

40,000

390,000

$19,488,896

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11,811

1,819,193

4,609,270

19,488,896

Different kinds of manufacturing and mechanical establishments.....
No. of persons employed, including principals, clerks, and operatives..
Amount of capital invested in the necessary tools and machinery....
Amount of capital invested in real estate occupied by establishments.
Total amount of product in twelve months...

No estimate is made in the above of capital invested in raw materials. It is but proper to state that several of the establishments named, such as the nail factory, cotton factories, &c., are located outside of this city, but are owned and managed in Richmond, and all their business transactions are dated in it.

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The value of Richmond manufactured articles is not included in the above, they having been included under the preceding head of Manufacturing and Mechanical, viz.:

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$37,142,826

Showing the amount of merchandise and manufactures, not the product of Richmond, sold during twelve months to be.... Lime, guano, fertilizers, and other articles not named above, are sold by those engaged in other branches of merchandising, the aggregate of whose sales are included in the above.

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Hands employed, 54; real estate occupied, $20,000. The above includes sales made only at the public stables and live-stock auction-yards.

Beef cattle....
Calves....

6,763 Sheep and lambs.......
7,000 Hogs

21,000 9,372

These were bought by Richmond butchers, and resold in the markets, and as the amount of sales is placed under the head of Manufactures, the amount is not added here.

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INSPECTORS AND OTHER OFFICERS, CLERKS, AND LABORERS, NOT INCLUDED IN ANY OF THE

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Railway officers......

61

$208,800

Officers of city government, including Mayor, City Council,
Hustings Court, and every city officer....

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These aggregates do not include our foreign or coastwise commerce, nor the earnings of our shipping or railroads.

It is seen, as above, that the aggregate amount of manufacturing and mechanical product and merchandising is over fifty-six-and-a-half millions of dollars, requiring a very large amount of current capital, concerning which we made no special inquiry, nor have we attempted any estimate. Persons familiar with each separate branch can make their own estimates with greater accuracy than we. We may, however, say that as all the leaf tobacco and wheat, as well as nearly every other article of raw material, is bought for cash, and the product sold on an average time of at least four months, with an allowance for the time consumed in manufacturing, and deducting on the other hand from the above $19,488,896 the amount of a reasonable profit, it is fair to conclude that not less than five-and-a-half millions of dollars are used by our manufacturers and

mechanics. Flour is always considered a cash article, but much of the flour manufactured here is exported by our millers, and very frequently large stocks are accumulated in their hands with an expectation of higher prices. We suppose that their average returns are at least four months from the date of their purchase of wheat.

All articles of produce and fertilizers are bought for cash-groceries, usually on four months' time; dry goods and other articles of merchandise, on from four to eight months. In proportion to the amount of sales, our merchants require less capital than our manufacturers and mechanics, bearing in mind that about twenty-three millions of the thirty-seven millions are for sales of produce and groceries. We, therefore, s ate the probable amount of capital used in merchandising at five millions, and adding half-a-million for all the other industries, we find a total of eleven millions of dollars current:

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The following will show the banking capital of Richmond :—

$11,000,000

2,274 673 9,566,570

$22,841,243

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There are five exchange brokers, through whom private capital is frequently used in discounting bills, but to what amount, we do not know; nor do we know the amount of capital and amount of their general busiThere are two stock brokers.

ness.

FIRE, MARINE, AND LIFE INSURANCE.

Three Richmond stock and one mutual company; five Virginia companies, twelve foreign companies, represented by agents.

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The canal and railroads centering in Richmond, are as follows:—

James River and Kanawha Canal, finished..........miles (This sum includes all the connections, but does not include expenditures west of Buchanan, the point of its present terminus, nor the expenditures upon North River, which will be completed next August, at a cost to the company of about $300,000, and will add twenty miles to the length.)

Cost.

Length.
196 $8,611,908 27

*This bank has just commenced operations, with authorized capital of two millions of dollars.

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