Wool-growing and the Tariff: A Study in the Economic History of the United StatesHarvard University Press, 1910 - 362 páginas |
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... scoured Cape grease The first two grades quoted - the only ones showing any marked rise in price - were the clip of English breeds of sheep , and were , the Lincoln especially , unlike any then generally grown in the United States . The ...
... scoured Cape grease The first two grades quoted - the only ones showing any marked rise in price - were the clip of English breeds of sheep , and were , the Lincoln especially , unlike any then generally grown in the United States . The ...
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... scoured wool such as could be substituted for a pound of cotton . Thus Ohio medium scoured averaged 74 cents in gold per pound , and Ohio fine scoured 95 cents in gold . These American prices were somewhat increased by the tariff , but ...
... scoured wool such as could be substituted for a pound of cotton . Thus Ohio medium scoured averaged 74 cents in gold per pound , and Ohio fine scoured 95 cents in gold . These American prices were somewhat increased by the tariff , but ...
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... scoured wool , yet as the dif- ference in cost grew less and less the consumer bought woolen goods in place of mixed or cotton goods . While within the woolen manufacture the substitution of wool for cotton was not very appre- ciable ...
... scoured wool , yet as the dif- ference in cost grew less and less the consumer bought woolen goods in place of mixed or cotton goods . While within the woolen manufacture the substitution of wool for cotton was not very appre- ciable ...
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... scoured , 1862-65 , was 94.9 cents . The London price for Australian average scoured was 62.5 cents . How closely these two grades resembled one another at this time it is hard to say , but estimating the shrinkage at about two thirds ...
... scoured , 1862-65 , was 94.9 cents . The London price for Australian average scoured was 62.5 cents . How closely these two grades resembled one another at this time it is hard to say , but estimating the shrinkage at about two thirds ...
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... scoured wool . ' G. W. Bond says : " In 1864 for the first time duties were put on manufactures of wool over and above the amount required by the manufacturer to compensate for is sufficient to note that the increase in duties was 170 ...
... scoured wool . ' G. W. Bond says : " In 1864 for the first time duties were put on manufactures of wool over and above the amount required by the manufacturer to compensate for is sufficient to note that the increase in duties was 170 ...
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Wool-growing and the Tariff: A Study in the Economic History of the United ... Chester Whitney Wright Visualização integral - 1910 |
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12 cents 54th Congress ad valorem advance amount Australasia Average Annual Imports Boston broadcloth Bulletin carpet wool cassimeres Census cents a pound cents cents cents chief Civil Class cloth coarse combing wool consumption cost cotton cotton famine dairy decade decline delaines demand Dingley tariff domestic clip domestic wool duty on wool East economic England estimate export fact factor farm farmers favor figures fleece flocks foreign wool free wool gold prices grades of wool greater grower growth Ibid imports of wool increase land less manu manufactures of wool Massachusetts mestiza Middle West mutton nearly Niles number of sheep Ohio period pounds of wool price of wool raw wool region relative Report rise River Plate scoured Sheep Husbandry Sheep Industry situation South South America tion trade United valorem Vermont wheat wool market wool-growing industry woolen manufacture world's wool supply York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 330 - Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1896), I, 572-73; Evarts B.
Página 63 - ... it is impossible to say, but there can be no doubt that we are outrunning the constable to a very great extent.
Página 286 - ... which has been sorted or increased in value by the rejection of any part of the original fleece, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject : Provided, That skirted wools as now imported are hereby excepted.
Página 38 - But now cotton yarn is cheaper than linen yarn ; and cotton goods are very much used in place of cambrics, lawns, and other expensive fabrics of flax ; and they have almost totally superseded the silks. Women of all ranks, from the highest to the lowest, are clothed in British manufactures of cotton, from the muslin cap on the crown of the head, to the cotton stocking under the sole of the foot.
Página 274 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
Página 286 - The duty upon wool of the sheep, or hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, as now and heretofore practiced, or which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject.
Página 7 - England, sets mens \\itts at work, and tfrat has put them upon a Trade which I am sure will hurt England in a little time ; for I am well informed, that upon Long Island and Connecticut, they are setting up a Woollen Manufacture, and I myself have seen Serge made upon Long Island that any man may wear.
Página 6 - Virginia, in this 1669. land people in producing naval stores, to turn them from manufactures. It mentions that six thousand barrels of tar, pitch, and turpentine were sent home that year by one fleet. But that nine years before, the great scarcity and dearness of woolen goods, which sold at two hundred per cent, advance, had forced them to " set up a very considerable manufactory, still in being, for Stuffs, Kerseys, Linsey-woolseys, Flannels, Buttons, &c., by which the importation of these Provinces...
Página 62 - ... stones and pearls of all kinds, set or not set; Bristol stones or paste work, and all articles composed wholly or chiefly of gold, silver, pearl, and precious stones; and laces, lace veils, lace shawls or shades, of thread or silk. Second. A duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem on gold leaf, and on all articles not free, and not subject to any other rate of duty.
Página 20 - Almost all wool is spun and woven in private families, and there are yet but few establishments for the manufacture of woolen cloth.