Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-24
Manufacturing Industries.

THE J0uyrGI Of Commerce has compiled
from the census reports table showing
the manufacturing industries in each State
producing over 81 100000 worth of any
one description of manufactured merchan-
disc From this table some curious results
are gathered. In no less than tWenty-four
| of the States Touring and griStmill pro
| ducts form the leading manufactured sta
| pie, showing an annual value ranging from
| S1,516,15O in Nebraska, to sec, 231 ,220 in
| New York, which gives the largest return
of any of the States. In Illinois the flour
ing and gristmill products are set at S43-
SIC, TO; in Ohio at S31 500 80; in Indi-
ana at $25,3s1 1922, and in Missouri at SOL
S31,351. The returns for New York show
that next to the gristmill product the
largest branch of manufacture is that of
mems clothing, amounting to SA 1S, 491 :;
after which come in the order of their i'm
portance, refined sugar, So, S37, 1874; tanned
leather, exclusive of morocco. dressed
skins, and curried leather S26,9SS, 420 :;
and boots and shoes to the value of 500,
619,S14. The heaviest manufacture in
Massachusetts is not cotton goods, as most
| persons probably suppose but boots and
| shoes, which are annually turned out there
to the value Of $SS,399 5e3 The product
of cotton goods in Massachusetts amounts
| to S56, 26I $50, and of wooden goods, $50,
| 400 ,242. The only States in which the manu-
| facture of cotton goods forms the leading
manufacturing industry are Maine, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island, and their
products are respectively, Maine, S11, 139,-
| 1S1; New Hampshire, $16,999,012: and
| Rhode Island, $22 ,O.2, 203. In Pcnnsyl-
vania the iron interest Of course predOm-
! mates over all others. Its product in pig,
bloom, forged and rolled iron, together
with iron bolts, nuts, washers, rivcts, nails,
spikes, pipe and castings, is set down at
the sum Of 1928, 701, 907, in addition to
which, machinery and boilers to the value
| of 500 1913 are manufactured, besides
nearly 100000 worth of steel Con-
| necticut's leading manufacture is that of
wooden goods, amounting to S11,365, 14S.
Sawed lumber is the principal manutac-
tured product of Michigan, Mississippi,
Florida and Washington Territory, the fig
ures for the tirstnamed State being set at
S31 ,9i6596, the other two States and
Washington Territory returning less than
S3,0O000O each. But Names product of
sawed lumber nearly equals in value its
cotton goods, amounting to S11 ,391 ,.41 an
nually. In Louisiana, molasses and sugar
| form the staple manufacture, the produc-
| ton amounting to S10.341 ,S5S Milled
| quartz to the value of S12 ,119,119 heads the
| list of manufactured products in Nevada,
and Maryland's leading manufacture is
| that of refined sugar, amounting to S1,O01-
S51 yearly. West Virginia turns out
| forged and rolled iron, nails and spikes to
the value of $500, $50 every year These
| are the leading manufacturing industries
of the several States, though other branches
OF manufacture not here enumerated
| amount in some instances to far greater
| sums IN the aggregate than the single ones
we have specified.