Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South by Michael S. Frawley

Author:Michael S. Frawley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2019-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

MAP 6.2. Range of estimates for the value of production for all firms in Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 (dollars).

Sources: Census of 1860 Manufacturing Schedules, newspapers, county directories, journals, and the R. G. Dun Credit Reports.

MAP 6.3. Range of estimates for the value of production for all firms in Texas in 1860.

Sources: Census of 1860 Manufacturing Schedules, newspapers, county directories, journals, and the R. G. Dun Credit Reports.

Table 6.2 shows the estimated value of production for firms listed in all sources in the Gulf South in 1860. The level of underreporting for the region was 2.37 to 14.84 percent, which means that at least a half a million dollars of production was missed. In today’s money this comes out to at least $16,200,000 in unreported output.13 This was a significant amount of industrial production that went unrecorded by the marshals. Alabama had the greatest amount of missed production because the state had the most firms unrecorded by the census takers, and these concerns were in lines of business that generally had greater amounts of output. For example, concerns that produced blinds, sashes, and doors and foundries had larger than average production values.14 In Mississippi the census marshals missed one blind, sash, and door firm and four foundries. Marshals missed two blind, sash, and door enterprises and three foundries in Texas. Ten blind, sash, and door manufactories and fifteen foundries were missed in Alabama.

TABLE 6.2. Value of production for concerns listed in the census and estimations for firms listed in all sources in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas in 1860 (percentage of underreporting)a

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