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 over their own establishments, accompanying me to those of others, and affording me all the information in their power.

1. Number of Establishments visited.—The vast resources of the United States are being developed with a success that promises results whose importance it is impossible to estimate.

This development, instead of being, as in former cases, gradual and protracted through ages, is, by the universal application of machinery, effected with a rapidity that is altogether unprecedented.

Upwards of thirty establishments visited in different parts of the States, and employing in the aggregate from 6,000 to 7,000 men, afforded direct evidence that the greatest energy and