Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time- being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the (14756162291)

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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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ited States was that ordered by Mr. Mackey, one of the ownersof the Bonanza silver-mines, in 1877, which comprised several hundred piecesof elaborately made solid-silver ware, including an enormous punch-bowl anda huge candelabrum. The set keptseveral hundred workmen busy formonths in its manufacture. Some ofthe spoons and dishes were heavilygilded. The whole cost exceeded$100,000. Private dinner-partieshave been given in New-York Citywithin the last five years by princelymerchants, in which $75,000 worthof silver and valuable china andcrystal ware were used to spreadthe table, and increase the magnifi-cence of the occasion ; but theMackey silver is the first grand setof great price ever made in the United States. Part of it goes to furnish the owners private residence inCalifornia, and the rest of it to his houses in Paris and London. Within the last few years a special variety of silver-ware has been createdto answer the demand for prizes for rifle-matches, yacht-races, trotting and
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OF THE UNITED STATES. 341 ball contests, &c. The pieces are often in the form of goblets and vases,following the ancient idea of a royal gift, which was generally a .valuable cup. Whether adapted for drinking or the holding of 1 VCr pnzesmasses of flowers, or whether statuesque and purely ornamental, they arefashioned very much on the principle of a trophy. They exhibit the symbolsof yachting, hunting, and athletic sports, and assemble into one piece everything which is characteristic of the contest for which they are the victorsreward. American silversmiths display great ingenuity in this style of work. COPPER AND BRASS UTENSILS. Copper was the first metal wrought into arms and implements in the terri-tory which is now the United States, if the testimony of the relics of the daysof the Indian occupation, and of the records of the Catholic Early use ofmissionaries, does not deceive us. The red metal which underlies c°PPer-the State of Michigan in such priceless deposits early cau