Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-25
New Jersey Enterprise.


considering our resources nom an
agricultural, manufacturing aud com
mercial standpoint, We recall with
satisfaction thu statements made by
Governor Newell in his recent ad-
dress before the Olympia Board of
Trade, when presenting the aSricul-
tural and manufacturing prosperity
of New Jersey as an illustration Of
what we may become with natural
adva ntages SO palpable, and SO SUI
perior to those of any other portion
of our entire country. Referring to
that State-so far as we can recall
he remarked, in substance:
"Ican present no better evidence
of the prosperity which attaches to
high farming, and extensive manu-
featuring enterprise, than the ad-
vancement which has attended New
jersey State to which l advert
with pride and affection for it was
ing home and it's people have done
me many honors in stature
but great in strength, it is destined
soon to hold rank in the first of man
ufacturing States. The census of
1880 presents it as the thirty-third
in size, the seventeenth in popula-
ton, the eighth in capital and in
wealth; containing five millions of
acres Of territory, one half of which
is salt-marsh, pine barren and rocky
waste, the land for agricultural pur-
poses alone is rated at eighty-three
dollars AN acre, which is twenty dol
lars more than the average of any
other State. There is produced two
and half bushels of wheat, six and
a half bushels of corn and eight
bushels of potatoes to every man,
woman and child in the State, and
other grains and vegetables in pro-
portion. It stands, by the same
standard, the first i'll cranberries,
in horses and mules and the value
of neat cattle.
But in view of the water-powers,
coal and iron mountains, and for
ests, and wool growth, and facilities
for commerce with the world,
through Puget Sound and the Co.
lumbia, which Washington Territory
enjoys, I desire to call your atten-
ton to the manufacturing greatness
which that State has attained, hav.
lug no extraordinary advantages of
water-power, no coal within her
borders and but scanty supply VI
wood, iron or wool. There are six
thousand distinct manufacturing es-
adjustments, besides almost inumer-
able work shops. Fifty thousand
herse power is required for propel-
ling the machinery; one hundred
thousand skilled artisans are thus
employed; eighty-nine millions of
capital are invested and nearly two
hundred millions of dollars is the
annual return in manufactured arti-
cles. To be specific and to verify
my account, allow me to state that
one establishment in Jersey City for
the manufacture of fine soaps, covers
two acres in the heart of the town,
and thirty horses, costing in Europe
ninety thousand dollars, may be
seen atany time taking the wares to
New York. One tobacco manufac-
tory, in the same city, paid, when
the tax was higher than it is now,
three millions of dollars in internal
revenue tax to the Government
yearly. A black lead and crucible
company, in the same town, monopo-
Lies large portion of that trade in
this country. In an adjoining city,
Paterson, there are employed four
teen thousand people making fine
silk fabrics-sewing silk, ribbon.
and dress silks. The Baldwin Lo-
connective works supply this country,
Russia and Brazil largely with their
engines. The " Clark Thread" Com
pany, formerly of Scotland, now
make all their stock in New Jersey.
Two-thirds of all the soft hats pro-
duced in the United States are made
within ten miles of Orange. The
city Of Newark manufactures a great
proportion of the fine jewelry, patent
leather, harness, carriages aud silk
hats. Six thousand Singer sewing
machines are turned out daiiy at
Elizabethport. Formerly nearly all
the rubber goods sold were manu-