MEMORANDUM ON COLONIAL INDUSTRIES.

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Estimated consumption of wool, one pack (240 lbs.) per day. Good weavers would produce 40 yards per week per loom. Apparatus for scouring, Ac, would probably cost over £100. E. Fox. London, 22nd June, 1871. Ropi Yarn. Estimate, by Messrs. Tatloe, Woedswoeth, and Co., Water Lane, Leeds, for Machinery calculated to produce from 15 cwt. to one ton of Yarn per day of ten hours. 4 Lappers, ... ... ... ... ... each £108 3 Drawing Frames, ... ... ... ... ... „ 285 6 Spinning Frames ... ... ... ... ... „ 175 100 Iron Bobbins ... ... ... • ... ... 30 Power required, about 15 horse. Hands —15 in all, five or six of them being men, and the rest boys or girls. Rope-making Machinery, for consuming the before stated quantity of yarn, assuming that the yarn is not tarred, and only a little oil used—Probably £600. London, 22nd June, 1871. E. Fox.