. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. e women and 676 were children under sixteen years ofage; and the average were $219. Materials,mill supplies, freight, power and heat cost the factories an-nually $3,500,000; wages, $875,000; total cost, $4,375,000;value of products, $5,736,000. From these -figures it isfound that the gross profit to the county (not to the manu-facturer) from manufacturing razi material at home is thirtyper cent., and the annual profit on tJie capital invested is 184 HISTORY OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY. per cen
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. e women and 676 were children under sixteen years ofage; and the average were $219. Materials,mill supplies, freight, power and heat cost the factories an-nually $3,500,000; wages, $875,000; total cost, $4,375,000;value of products, $5,736,000. From these -figures it isfound that the gross profit to the county (not to the manu-facturer) from manufacturing razi material at home is thirtyper cent., and the annual profit on tJie capital invested is 184 HISTORY OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY. per cent. Mecklenburg, in 1902, proditced 28,40/bales of cotton, for which the farmers received about onemillion dollars. Manufactured into various products, itziould be worth from fifteen to forty-five cents a pound, or atotal of from two million to six million dollars. Mecklen-burgs cotton factories increase the valu^ of the annual cot-ton product of the cotmty from one million to tzuo millionfive hundred thousand dollars. Authority:—County Records. Newspapers and v
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