This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Growth And Development. The market in 1832. A new firm. Manufacturing the product of the rolling mills; butts, kettles. Extension of the industry. Beginning in Wolcottville, Derby and Ansonia. Rolling copper. Pins. Photographic plates. New plants. Reasons for the localization and success of the industry; enterprise of the pioneers, labor conditions, the tariff. DURING the ten years from 1820 to 1830 the two firms engaged in the manufacture of rolled brass buttons became established. In 1820 a liberal estimate of the capital of Leavenworth, Hayden & Scovill would be $5,000. In 1830 each of the two firms then in the business commanded a capital of $20,000, the most of which represented profits. A real beginning had been made. But during this same decade all branches of manufacturing in the country experienced something of the same expansion. We have in hand certain statistics relating to the manufactures of the United States collected in accordance with a resolution adopted in the House of Representatives, January 19, 1832. While these returns are quite incomplete, yet they are the most satisfactory in those sections where manufacturing was most highly developed. From these returns supplemented by other investigations it appears that since 1820 Executive Document No. 308, 22nd. Cong., 1st Session, 2 Vols., Washington, 1833. Returns are quite complete for Mass. and Conn. and less so for other States. The reports are only from N. E., N. Y., N. J., Penn. and Del., with some scattering returns from Ohio and other States. the consumption of brass and copper had more than doubled, being at this time perhaps 500 tons. It is impossible accurately to separate the copper from the brass, but the amount of brass may have been 50 to 60...