The following gives some idea of teh extent to which labour-saving machinery is employed m American industry :— " On the simple article of shoe-pegs and shoe> peggers there are 576 patents, and there are 2000 patents on the shoe machinery. One class of machines last year sewed, itjja estimated, 45,000,000 pairs of shoes, and another class pegged 56,000,000 pairs. Ten men with tne patent machinery can make 600 pairs of shoes m a day. Four hundred and sixty bushels of boot-pegs are made m New England per day, and one cent's worth of pegs will, peg four paire^f shoes. Two million of shoe lasts were made m the United States last year by machinery.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 964, 1 December 1879, Page 2
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