The Leavenworth weekly times., 1873-11-13


iarm products BY more than $50. 0O0, 900,
The raw material consumed vas 81. 400. .OOO-
600, showing The increase in 1870 Of national
wealth, BY reason Of manufactures to b
s., lO0, ,O0O. 900; more than ths entire national
debs.
Every generation creates most of iis own
wealth. In 1850 the value of real and
personal estate in the Union Vas 81 ,OOO,.
600. 900. In 1860 il had increased to &l6,-
O0O. .OOO. 900; in 1870 il vas over SO. .O00, ,OOO-
600. The men, women and children are
nov living Who will create wealth in the
next ten years to make it $50, 900, ,OOO, 900.
This wealth shOuld he distributed over Q
wider surface. lhis wealth should open up
all the avenues Of industries possible, and
their gain would b more sure, more
rapid and more permanent.
New York, Pennsylvania and Mseachu-
setts are the three leading States in manu-
factures. Their entire product the same
year amounted to $2, 500 OOO, 900, employing
l 600, 900 hands. hut the enormous ratio
Of product to the number Of hands employ
must challenge attention. lllinOia has in
6ve-fold, while New York, Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts, have only doubled their
products. Missouri, the eleventh
State in value Of productions in 1860
has made rapid strides in manufactory, has
now suddenly leaped to the fifth place - .
manufacturing State. At present Missouri
gives premise of rapid growth in manufac-
tures. The rate of production to the number
Of hands employed IL higher than in anv
State in the Union. Three years have al
ready elapsed since the census was taken.
and Missouri has undoubtedly passed all
except the three leading States in value Of
manufacturers products. II the same rate Of
increase holds for another decade this mighty
empire Of the West (Mieouri) will outssrip
New York and Massachusetts, and Try con-
clusions with PennsylvaEia. Westward the
empire moves, and with it agriculture, COM
merce and manufactures. GOuld's Directory
shows the astonishing growth and prosperity
of st. Louis. The population in round
numbers is now 40 900; it il now the fourth
city in the Union in population, and the
third in manufactures. What st. Louis has
done in the past few years Is but . showing
of what she will do IN the future. Seven
wears will leave this city second only to New
York, making her the second city in the
Union in point Of population. No city in
the world can show such figures in manufac-
tories a. St. Louis has done in the last few
years. The great bridge will, 30 far from
finishing the work, only give il fresh start.
ST. Louis ceases to acknowledge any rival
in the West. She is supreme Of them oil,
not only in population, but in wealth, indus
tries and stability. In 1872 she had i've
thousand manufacturing establishments, en-
ploying 55 600 hands and producing nearly
500, OOO, 900 worth Of goods from the raw
material-averaging about GO per cent. The
wealth thus created was S75 ,0OO. 900 BY these
industries. Will this rspidity of growth.
shich has added fully one-third to its popu-
latiOn sithin three years, continue TO make
Its progress? Its growth has lust COM
menced; manufactures on q grand scale have
Just begun. No other form Of human in
dustry adds 40 largely to . population n
these. With like rspidity Of increase, in
1880 st. Louis will contain SOO, coo inhabi-
tants, and will contest with Philadelphia for
the twelfth place among the ciries Of the
world. The census Of 1870 present evidence
Of the growth and prosperity Of manufactur-
irg industries in the West 10 astounding and
grand a. to be almost beyond belief. While
st Louis up to 1850. with abundant capital.
was making slow headwsy in manufacturing
iron and lead, Chicago was expendink all
her energy in handling the vast grain, beef
and pork products Of the Valley Of the Mis-
.is-ippi, and in building up great iobbins
trade. Within the last ten years this has
changed. Chicago awoke to the realization
Of the fact that to handle millions Of bushels
of grain, millions Of hoes. hundreds Of thou
sands OF cattle and sheep, and to simply act
West and East would eventually impoverish
the West and enrich the East. The remedy
was the West must have home market. To
freight one bu-hel of corn to Boston con-
-umes two or three bushels; to return the
cotton and WOODEN goods, boots and shoes,
and hundreds oi other prodac;s was wasting
every dollar that came from the pockets Of
tfe Western farmers. An exclusively sgri-
cultural county most always rename poor.
No community can accumulate wealth ex-
cept through diveT-i6cation Of indus
try. These facts Chicago has learned,
for in 1870 she employed $4,000
hands in manufacturing establishments,
producing S95,OOO,OOO worth Of goods,
showing the astonishing increase in ten ysars
Of 700 per cent. The growth Of her manu.
fac'orirs has bern 10 marvellous ~ TO challenge
the attention of the whole country; and then
comes Cincinnati with her weaith-creating
power of manufactures; in 1872 the value Of
her industries wss Sl4I, ,OOO. .OOO, giving en-
ployment to gu, 900 mechanics, an increase
Of production over any former year Of S., :
O00. 900.
/ we'll remember the commencement
Of boot manufacturing in my native town,
Milford, Massachusetts. My father was the
inventor Of peg-work, and l have often seen
the workmen splitting the pegs with their
shoe knives; il was y slow process. The
sales OF pegged boots and shoes in 1920 was
$500, last year it was Sl75, 100000. What
q contrast between the sales of 1920 and
1872. From that one small establishment
has grown q large manufacturing town, over
forty large boot and 81 Oe factories, employ
ing 900 hands, turning out 1000 900 pair
Of boots yearly, the place has grown from .
small village To q town Of 10, OOO inhzbit-
ants, doubling its wealth every six year..
This is but a simple Of hundreds of towns
scattered all over New England, with every
variety Of mann actures, pins, needles,
clocks. cloths. and eve,y variety Of goods
from which the West il supplied, and for
which We are paying tribute to New Eng
land thrift and enterprise. There are no
finer ornamental woods in the world than
those Of American growth. Fsshion has
heretofore patronized these Of foreign coun-
tries, on the principal which govern thous-
ands, that nothing is valuable but what il
far sought and dearly bought. The rose
wood, zebra an1 mahogany are nearly out Of
tise, and our black walnut j. making it, vsy
in England and France, and challenges the
admiration Of all Foreigners. Our walnut is
not only equal, but superior for cabinet
ware to any foreign wood. Ms-sr. Dilworth,
Keith Il Co, are using this black walnut al
most exclusively in their manuraciory. j
Was astonished at the amount Of perfection,
beauty Of goods, and the cloek-work order in
which they are turned cut; every Kind, from
The common table 10 the finest chamber and
parlor sets. equal if not superior to tho.e
from competing cities are here manufactured
They employ about forty hands, and their
ay-roll amounts to 81, 900 month. Their
trade extends all over Kansas, and IL fast
finding its way into Texas, Colorado, Nebrzska