The world: historical and actual . s made from silkraised, spun and woven in that colony. That was ayear before the first bale of cotton was exportedfrom this country. In 1792 dress silk was first pro-duced in this country. It was a strictly domesticindustry for several years. In 1810 machine-madesilk was produced in Connecticut on a small scale. sparsely with cotton cloth it is claimed, but the cot-ton industry may be traced to the first seed sown onthe soil of Virginia in 1621, although the first ex-port was in 1748, and as late as 1784 eight bales ex-ported to England were confiscated on th
The world: historical and actual . s made from silkraised, spun and woven in that colony. That was ayear before the first bale of cotton was exportedfrom this country. In 1792 dress silk was first pro-duced in this country. It was a strictly domesticindustry for several years. In 1810 machine-madesilk was produced in Connecticut on a small scale. sparsely with cotton cloth it is claimed, but the cot-ton industry may be traced to the first seed sown onthe soil of Virginia in 1621, although the first ex-port was in 1748, and as late as 1784 eight bales ex-ported to England were confiscated on the groundthat so much cotton could not be produced in theUnited States. The cotton-gin of the previouschapter may be said to have given this industry itsreal start. The first cotton-mill of the country waserected at Beverley, Massachusetts, in 1788. Theconsumption of raw cotton in the United States in1880 was 911, pounds. During the last de-cade cotton was the textile industry which developedthe most rapidly in this \k AMERICAN INDUSTRY AND ART. 6S3 Iron is an industry which dates, so far us concernsAmerica, from 1020. Bog iron-ore, found nearJamestown, was used. In 1643 bog-iron was util-ized in Massachusetts. The manufacture of ironreceived quite an impetus in 1(353, and now thiscountry makes one-fourth of the steel and one-fourth of the iron of the whole world. The ironproduction of 1880 in this country, includingsteel, exceeded 7,205,000 tons. The United Statesis second only to Great Britain in this great branchof industry. Our ore beds are so rich that bog ironis almost as obsolete as hand-made cloth. Sheep were introduced into New York in 1625,and into Massachusetts in 1633. In 1777 the mak-ing of wool-card teeth by machinery instead of byhand, was invented by Oliver Evans. These threebeginnings may be called the foundation of thewoolen interest in America. The clip of 1879 in theUnited States amounted to 105,000,000 pounds, andthe textile production of 18
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