The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-29
OUR MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.
A Summing Of the Present Condition Pre-.
pared by Colonel Sidney D. Maxwell.

pared by Colonel Sldney u maxwell.
AT the request of the Chief of the Bureau OF
Statistics at Washington, Colonel Maxwell,
Superintendent of the Cincinnati Chamber
of Commerce, has prepared the following
statement of the condition of our manu-
featuring industries:
The present condition Of the manufac-
turing Industries of Cincinnati is Of the
most favorable character. Safely emerged
from a long period of shrinkagein values OF
severe competition and undue production
throughout the country this city finds its
industrial interests, in all their ramifica-
tions, in a condition to enter Immediately
and fully upon the improved situation
which, on all Sides is apparent. No part
of, ,Cincinnati's enterprises has been per-
manently damaged by the long financial
strain.
The city has borne losses and endured
privation, but this has not impaired her
usefulness in any sense. Possessed OF ample
capital, enterprising and educated manufac-
turers and skilled artisans, with manufac-
lures Of great variety and of wide distribu-
ton, situated in the midst of district sing
ularly rich in iron, coal, grain. timber,
hogs, cattle, Sheep flax, tobacco and other
raw materials, and accessible to cotton,
there is every reason why, in the new era
of industrial and commercial activity which
has dawned, Cincinnati should not enter on
period of her business life which will far
exceed in its results anything which she
has ever before accomplished.
At present the greatest activity prevails
in nearly all of her important departments
of production, and in such as may not be
fully participating in the renewed busi-
ness there are the most indubitable evil
dences of an improved condition. Manu-
facturers are generally running to their full
capacity, and in many instances they have
orders largely ahead. The products of Gin
cinnati's manufacturing industries for the
year 1878 according to the figures Of J. F.
Blackburn, Esq, Secretary of the Board of
Trade of this city, aggregated in value
$138, 736, l65. To produce this 8, ,272 estab-
lishments were in operation, 81, l45 hands
were employed, cash capital to the amount
of $57, 509, ,2l5 was invested, and real estate
to the value of $45, 24S,6S7 was occupied.
The number of establishments engaged
and of hands employed was the largest in
the history of the city, and it is a notice
able fact that the value of the manufac-
tured product exceeded the preceding year
$3612.997. Not only SO, but the year, in
the value of its production, fell but 81, sos,
1S0 behind the year 1875, when Cincinnati s
manufacturers, at much higher prices pro-
duced the largest aggregate value in their
history. When it is remembered that since
1875 the shrinkage in value has been i'm
mense, and that in all departments. the
present product of the city, of equal value,
must far exceed in actual results that of
four years ago, the progress which the city
has made in production, even in times of
general commercial distress and industrial
depression, must be apparent to the most
casual observer.