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Sunbury American And Shamokin Journal
Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
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Statistical overview of Pennsylvania's manufacturing and agricultural output, including powder mills, drug production, glass works, various mills and factories, livestock counts, crop yields, and mining, based on returns to the National Government.
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Drug and medicines to an amount exceeded two millions of dollars, are manufactured.
There are 25 glass works, 182 potteries, 20 sugar refineries, 27 paper manufactories, employing about 800 men--39 rope walks, 736 flooring mills, 2554 grist mills, 5359 saw mills, 118 oil mills, 346 fulling mills, 235 woolen factories, 106 cotton factories, 930 people employed in raising tobacco, 1170 tanneries, 1010 distilleries, 87 breweries, 16,328 gallons of wine made, 213 furnaces, 365,127 horses, 1,767,665 neat cattle, 1,767,620 sheep, 1,503,964 swine, 11,52 men engaged in mining operations, 13,213,077 bushels of wheat, 100,000 bushels more than raised in New York.--U. S. Gazette.
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Returns to the National Government report 30 powder mills producing 1,200,000 pounds annually; drugs and medicines worth over two million dollars; 25 glass works, 182 potteries, 20 sugar refineries, 27 paper manufactories employing 800 men, 39 rope walks, 736 flooring mills, 2554 grist mills, 5359 saw mills, 118 oil mills, 346 fulling mills, 235 woolen factories, 106 cotton factories, 930 people raising tobacco, 1170 tanneries, 1010 distilleries, 87 breweries, 16,328 gallons of wine, 213 furnaces, 365,127 horses, 1,767,665 neat cattle, 1,767,620 sheep, 1,503,964 swine, 11,52 men in mining, and 13,213,077 bushels of wheat (100,000 more than New York).