Hosts of summer boarders give to Loudoun a large transient population requiring for its accommodation numerous hotels and countless boarding houses.  This trade brings considerable money into the County and is a factor in its prosperity not to be ignored.

Scattered over Loudoun may be found great numbers of small industries, many of them employing steam, water, or motor power.  These comprise grist mills, grain elevators, quarries, canneries, packing houses, saw mills, an artificial ice plant, and miscellaneous enterprises.  Though comparatively insignificant taken singly, viewed collectively they show an aggregate of energy and thrift wholly commendable.

Several of Loudoun’s more important enterprises were launched subsequent to the last general census and this circumstance renders its reports of manufactures, at no time complete or entirely reliable, of uncertain value as a symposium of the County’s manufacturing interests at the present time.  However, they are the latest reports obtainable and constitute the only official statistical exhibit of this subordinate source of wealth.  They afford at least a partial insight into the present status of the manufacturing interests of Loudoun and, to this end, are reprinted below: 

Number of establishments 164
Number of proprietors and firm members 197

Capital:  Expenses: 
  Land $25,957 Fuel and rent of power
  Buildings 79,350 and heat $8,811
  Machinery, etc 104,402 Miscellaneous 12,935
  Cash and sundries 141,548 Cost of materials used 424,538
                        -------- --------
    Total $351,257 Total $446,284

      Value of products $638,136

FARM VALUES.

The tables appearing under this and the two succeeding kindred headings were constructed from the latest general census reports, and are a most complete and trustworthy statistical exhibit of the agricultural resources and products of Loudoun County.  TABLE I.—­Value of all farm property, including implements and machinery and live stock, with increase and decrease, and per cent of increase and decrease, by decades:  Summary 1850 to 1900.

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Census  |    Value of    |   Increase in   |  Per cent  |   Average
year.   |    all farm    |     decade.     |     of     |  value per
|    property.   |                 |  increase. |    farm.
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1900    | $11,056,109 00 |     $971,459 00 |      9.6   |  $5,675 62
1890    |  10,084,650 00 |   [#]729,731 00 |   [#]6.7   |   5,547 11
1880    |  10,814,381 00 | [#]1,437,636 00 |  [#]11.7   |   5,874 19
1870[##]|  12,252,017 00 |      323,187 00 |      2.7   |   9,896 62
1860    |  11,928,830 00 |    2,446,073 00 |     25.7   |   9,883 04
1850    |   9,482,757 00 |                 |            |   7,549 97
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[##:  Values in gold.]