STATISTICS OF TIN AND SHEET IRON WARE PRODUCED IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK DURING THE YEAR

STATISTICS OF CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK During the year

STATISTICS OF COFFINS PRODUCED IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK DURING THE YEAR ENDING

STATISTICS OF GROUND PLASTER PRODUCED IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK DURING THE YEAE

STATISTICS OF PIG IRON PRODUCED IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK DURING THE YEAR Ending

I. Total Tonnage of United States in 1814. II. Losses in forty-seven
years. III. Tonnage built in each decade, 1822-1861, and Annual
Average. IV. Tonnage built each year, 1851-1861. V. Losses by
Wreck, &c., ten years. VI. Tonnage built and owned in New-York.

Total tonnage of the United States, in the year 1814, was..
Since which period have been built, (to June, 1861, inclusive,)..

Total owned and built since 1814,...

..tons, 1,368,127 8,307,397

tons, 9,675,524

The total tonnage owned at the close of the last fiscal year, (June 30th, 1861,) was...... 5,589,812 Showing the total decrease in 47 years, by decay, wreck and other loss, to have been..tons, 4,185,712

This loss, by wear and tear, decay, wreck, fire, and other causes, is thus shown to have been, in forty-seven years, 42.75 per cent., while in the past ten years alone, it has been twenty-five per cent.

TONNAGE BUILT, 1815-1861.

The rapid advance in the ship-building interest, during the last fortyseven years, in which New-York has largely participated, is shown in the

following tabular statement of the tonnage built in each decade since 1821, and in the seven years previous:

Seven years, 1815-1821,.

Ten years, 1822-1831,.

Ten years, 1832-1841,.

Ten years, 1842–1851,.

Ten years, 1852-1861,.

Total, forty-seven years,...........

Tonnage built
in U. S.
638,563 tons.
901,598
1,178,673

Annual
Average.

91,223 tons.

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TONNAGE BUILT ANNUALLY, 1851-1861.

The total tonnage of the United States at the end of the fiscal year 1851, was 3,772,429 tons. If to this we add the tonnage since built, and officially reported as 3,589,200 tons, it will show a total of 7,361,639 tons, viz. :

Tonnage

Official

Tonnage built.

June 30.

owned in U. S.

Total Tons. Report, Tons.

This is equivalent to a total loss, in ten years, of 1,821,827 tons, which will appear by the following summary from official data:

According to the official data, the loss in ten years is thus, 1,821,827 tons, or nearly twenty-five per cent., or about 24 per cent. per annum. What portion of this loss is by wreck, and what portion by actual decay, are not shown. Unfortunately, the statistics of wrecks and of total and partial losses are not preserved; but, in view of their importance, it seems proper that they should be carefully ascertained and kept by private enterprise or public authority.

The total tonnage of the United States, at the close of the last fiscal year, was 5,539,812 tons, of which the State of New-York owned 1,740,940, or nearly 30 per cent. of the whole. During the last fiscal year, the tonnage built was 233,194 tons, of which New-York built 46,356 tons, or nearly twenty per cent. The shipping interest of New-York, as compared with other States, is indicated in the annexed table.