Industry
Schedule from the
Census of 1870 ~
Cairo
Transcribed by Sylvia Hasenkopf from the original census
Products of Industry in the Town of Cairo, in the County of Greenem State of Bew York, during the year ending June 1, 1870, as enumerated by me, A.L. Walters, Ass't Marshall Post Office: Cairo, NY
| Name of Corporation, Company, or Individual producing to value of $500 annually | Name of Business, Manufacture, or Product | Capital (real and personal) invested in the business |
Motive Power |
Machines |
Average Number of Hands Employed |
Total amount paid in wages during year |
Number of months in active operation, reducing part time to full time |
Materials (Including Mill Supplies and Fuel) |
Production (Including all Jobbing and Repairing) |
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| Kind of Power (steam, water, wind, horse or hand) | If steam or water, No. of horsepower | Name of Description | Number of | Males above 16 years | Females above 15 years | Children and Youth |
Kinds |
Quantities |
Values (omitting fractions of a dollar) | Kinds | Quantities | Values (omitting fractions of a dollar) | |||||
| Joshua Carman | Cigars | 1,400 | Hand |
|
1 | 1 | 12 | 20,000 | 8,000 | ||||||||
| Paul Reader | Grist Mill | 2,000 | Water | Wheele | 1 | 1 | 125 | 12 | Rye | 1,500 | 1,400 | 1,400 | |||||
| Buckwheat | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Corn | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Oats | 400 | 250 | 250 | ||||||||||||||
| Egbert Paddock | Agr. M.F. | 3,000 | Water | Wheele | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1,500 | 12 | Ash | 13,000 | 350 | Cradels | 900 | 3,700 | ||
| Spruce | 8,000 | 160 | Rakes | 3,600 | 600 | ||||||||||||
| Pine | 7,000 | 140 | Water Drawers | 100 | 700 | ||||||||||||
| Hickory | 5,000 | 100 | Miselanus | 150 | |||||||||||||
| John Galatin | Grist Mill | 10,000 | Water | Wheele | 1 | 2 | 125 | 12 | Buckwheat | 5,563 | 5,563 | ||||||
| Wheat | 241 | 350 | |||||||||||||||
| Rye | 5,200 | 5,200 | |||||||||||||||
| Corn | 600 | 700 | |||||||||||||||
| Alpheas Wright | Turning | 5,000 | Water | Wheele | 1 | 4 | 600 | 9 | Maple | 7,000 | 168 | Beadsteads | 150 | 7,000 | |||
| Soft Wood | 8,000 | 160 | Tables | 15 | 150 | ||||||||||||
| Stands | 120 | 240 | |||||||||||||||
| Horse Rakes | 8 | 65 | |||||||||||||||
| Misalanius | 300 | ||||||||||||||||
| John Gurther | Carding & Cloth Dressing | 4,000 | Water | Wheel | 1 | 1 | 4 | 650 | 6 | Wool Carding | 4,000 | 300 | |||||
| Cards | 1 | Cloth Dressing | 1000 yds | 400 | |||||||||||||
| Jacks | 3 | Wool | 500 | 500 | |||||||||||||
| Looms | 3 | Stocking | |||||||||||||||
| Yarn | 500 | 500 | |||||||||||||||
| Charles Foster | Manufactory of Tin Ware | 1,500 | Hand | Tinmans Machine | 1 | 700 | 12 | Tin | 5,000 | 400 | opertede | 600 | |||||
| Sheets Iron | 1,000 | 200 | do | 300 | |||||||||||||
| Copper | 400 | 125 | do | 2-- | |||||||||||||
| Reparing | 100 | ||||||||||||||||
| James Hulse | Steam Saw Mill | 4,000 | Steam | 40 | Circle | ||||||||||||
| Saw | 1 | 3 | 150 | 11 months | Lumber | 30,000 | 600 | ||||||||||
| Plank | 15,000 | 300 | |||||||||||||||
| Boards | 25,000 | 500 | |||||||||||||||
| J. Knickabacker | Grist Mill | 300 | Water | Wheel | 1 | 1 | 75 | 7 | |||||||||
| 3 run of stone | rye | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||||||||||||
| Wheat | 75 | 100 | 100 | ||||||||||||||
| Corn | 500 | 500 | 500 | ||||||||||||||
| Buckwheat | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | ||||||||||||||
| George Lake | Grist Mill | 4,000 | Water | Wheel | |||||||||||||
| 2 run of stone | 1 | 300 | 12 | Wheat | 4,000 | 500 | 500 | ||||||||||
| Rye | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Corn | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Buck Wheat | 10,000 | 10,000 | 1,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Henry Steel | Boots & Shoes | 400 | Hand | 2 | 500 | 12 | Boots & Shoes | 375 pr. | 2,000 | ||||||||
| A. & E. Plank | BlkSmith | 600 | Hand | 2 | 800 | 12 | Iron | Jobbing | 3,500 | ||||||||
| Steel | |||||||||||||||||
| Charles Naylor | BlkSmith | 550 | Hand | 2 | 750 | Iron & | Jobbing | 2,500 | |||||||||
| D.C. Grannis | Wheelwright | 250 | Hand | 1 | 400 | 12 | Steel | Jobbing | 1,500 | ||||||||
| Geo. W. Mead | Horse shoer | 400 | Hand | 2 | 500 | 12 | Jobbing | 2,000 | |||||||||
| A. & E. Wells | Wheelwright | 400 | Hand | 2 | 800 | 12 | Jobbing | 2,000 | |||||||||
| Egbert Yeomans | BlkSmith | 500 | Hand | 2 | 500 | 12 | Jobbing | 2,000 | |||||||||
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