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Title: Industries of New Jersey.
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Edwards, Richard, ed.
Subjects: Industries--New Jersey--Directories. Manufacturing industries--New Jersey--Directories. Manufactures--New Jersey.
Publisher: New York : Historical Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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t that its population more than doubled within the decade from i860 to 1870, being 62,717 in the census ofi860, and 129,067 in 1870. The present population of the county is 187,950. The density of its populationis due to its containing two large cities, Jersey City and Hoboken, with populous suburbs, and the exceptionalincrease to the marvelous growth of the cities named. The surface of the county is quite hilly. It is inter-.-ccted by the Hackensack River, and has the Hudson River and New York Bay on its eastern, Newark Bay oni:s southern, and the Passaic River on its western border. The Northern New Jersey, the New Jersey Midland,the Eric and numerous other railroads traverse the county. The census of 1870 placed the valuation of thereal and personal property of the county at $135,139)369. The county seat is at Jersey City. The manu-factures of the county, which are extensive and valuable, will be noticed m the paragraphs on Bayonne.Hoboken, and Jersey City, further on in this work.
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52 STATE OF NEW JERSEY. HUKTEKDON COUNTY.—This county was sec off from Burlington in 1713, when it was thenorthernmost part of West New Jersey, and in 1765 it was the most populous and wealthy county of theprovince. In 1838, its area was reduced to supply a part of Mercer County. It extends northward andsomewhat westward, along the Delaware River, above Mercer County and above navigation, and is boundedon the northwest by the Musconetcong River, and drained by the Lansington and south branch of the RaritanRiver. Its area is about 500 square miles, embracing excellent agricultural lands with considerable iron veins,some copper veins, and numerous limestone and freestone quanies ; though the iron has been worked to a verysmall extent as yet, it is of good quality and in sufficient quantity to pay well for the expense and laborinvolved ; while the Lehigh Valley, Belvidere Delaware, and other railroads afford facilities for getting it tothe markets. In 1870 this county produced, besides

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