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PICTURES OF LIFE IN MEXICO.


V.
Looms.
The 131,280 spindles will occupy (working only by day) 8,753
The same, working day and night 14,880
Number.
Operatives employed by day 17,000
Do.do. day and night 29,000
VI.
Quintals of
cotton
It will require for the 131,280 spindles working by day 145,666 ⁠2/5⁠
The produce of the country, at the utmost, is not more than 50,000
Leaving a deficit of 95,666 ⁠2/5⁠
Quintals of
cotton
But if the spindles work day and night, they will require 247,973 ⁠1/2⁠
Produce of the country, as above 50,000
Leaving a deficit of 197,973 ⁠1/2⁠

Many persons have been induced by this condition of the market and the prohibition of importing the raw material to commence plantations of cotton: it is doubtful whether the habits of the agricultural population are

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