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238 HISTORY OF THE FIEST LOCOMOTIVES m AMERICA. men, assistants, bosses, and -watchmen, who see that orders are delivered and obeyed with precision and dispatch. This explains why, in so large an establishment, doing a business so extensive, machines are produced so uniform in quality and so satisfactory in service. "We cannot leave this subject without a word of comment on the lesson it teaches, as to the value of Anierican manufactures and the importance of protecting them. " Here is an establishment, the value of the finished products of which, in 1869, was 13,430,018.84. Of this sum, 11,068,388.20 was expended for labor, giving employment to sixteen or seventeen hundred men, and, if we allow five persons to a family, furnishing a support for a population of eight to nine thousand souls—no inconsiderable portion of the population of Philadelphia. But further, the remaining two and a half millions represent the amount expended for materials, for tools, for railroad, canal, and steamer freights, for the innumerable incidental expenses of carry- ing on such a business, and for the return on the capital invested. But of this expenditure for material bought and used in the manufacture of locomotives, all, without an exception, save some few articles not produced in this country, are exclusively American products or American manufactures. American boilerplate, American steel, American bar and pig iron, American lumber, American coal, American copper, and American brass, are the principal materials from which the Baldwin Locomo- tive Works constructed their machines. All these articles, as they come to the works, represent in their cost price principally labor, and American labor at that— ^labor in mining coal, in smelting iron, in rolling boiler-plate, in cutting and saw- ing lumber, etc. If we go back to the absolute first cost, or the royalty, for the coal and ore in the ground, and the lumber in the forests, as we logically may, we shall have but a few thousand dollars as the original first cost for the raw material, which mined, smelted, cast, forged, planed, turned, finished, and polished, stands finally on the books as an aggrerate value of nearly three and a half million dollars, and in its various stages of transformation and progress has given employment to probably six thousand men, and supported a population of thirty thousand souls." Digitized by Microsoft®
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. 239 CHAPTEE XLIV. PAST, PEESEITT, AlTD FUTUEE. We will now close our work witli tlie following interesting article upon tlie railroads of tlie present day, iand their prospects for tLe fature, wHcli we take the liberty of copying from tlie New York Independent, with some few omissions. The article reads thus " No fact has had a wider influence upon the business and material progress of this country than the growth of railways within the last forty years. In 1829 there was scarcely a single mile of railway in all the land ; and in 1 830 only twenty-three miles of line were opened. In 1848 we had five thousand nine hundred and ninety-six miles of line completed, showing an average increase of three hundred and ten miles per'annum, from the commencement. In 1860 the system had expanded to thirty thousand six hundred and thirty-five miles, advancing, for the previous twelve years, at the annual rate of two thousand and fifty-three miles. The war greatly retarded this progress, especially at the South ; and yet the aggregate addition, up to the end of 1868, was eleven thousand six hundred and forty-nine miles in eight years, averag- ing one thousand four hundred and fifty-five miles for each year, and giving a total of forty-two thousand two hundred and fiftyfive miles for the whole country. In 1868 the increase was two thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine miles ; which, with one exception, was greater than the increase of any previous year. During the past year the estimated increase is five thousand miles. Since, and including the year 1865, the year when the war closed, about thirteen thousand miles of railway have been constructed. The total mileage, as the figures now stand, amounts to forty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-five miles. " On January 1, 1869, the six New-England States had four thousand and nineteen miles of railway, the six Middle States had nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-five miles, the ten Western States had sixteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine miles, Digitized by Microsoft® :
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