US Presidency
1892

The report of the commissioner of labor for the State of Massachusetts shows that 3,745 industries in that State paid $ 129,416,248 in wages during the year 1891, against $ 126,030,303 in 1890, an increase of $ 3,335,945, and that there was an increase of $ 9,932,490 in the amount of capital and of 7,346 in the number of persons employed in the same period. During the last six months of the year 1891 and the first six months of 1892 the total production of pig iron was 9,710,819 tons, as against 9,202,703 tons in the year 1890, which was the largest annual production ever attained. For the same twelve months of 1891 92 the production of Bessemer ingots was 3,878,581 tons, an increase of 189,710 gross tons over the previously unprecedented yearly production of 3,688,871 gross tons in 1890. The production of Bessemer steel rails for the first six months of 1892 was 772,436 gross tons, as against 702,080 gross tons during the last six months of the year 1891.