The National tribune., 1882-11-30
Its Industrial, Commercial, Railroad,
and Agricultural Development.
FINANCE AND TR ID E.
Latest Reports from Leading
Business Centres.

Census bulletin, No BOP recently issued, en-
braces 4 table of statistics Of manufactures in
the United States. showing the capital invested,
the number of hands employed, the amount of
wages paid, the value of materials used, and the
value of products for all the establishments of
manufacturing industry, gas excepted in each of
the States and Territories, as returned at the
census of 1880 The following arc the totals;
Number of establishments 253,S40; capital,
$2,79O, ,223, sos. Average number of hands en-
ployed: Males above IS years. POPS, ,279; females
above Is years, 531, ,753; children and youths,
1SI,91S Total amount paid in wages during
the year $947,919,674; value of materials,
1884, ,340,029; value of products, $5369667,-
706. New York is credited with ~, 739 estab-
lishmcnts; q capital of $5Gh2iG,575; value Of
products 81, ,0S0 63S, ,69G, and value of material,
S679, ,576, $50. Pennsylvania is next with 81, ,225
establishments; capital, $i74 H9, ,993; value of.
materials, Si62 9777,2 ,250, and value of products,
S744,74S,O45. Massachusetts, with ,352 estab
Iishments, employs a capital of 1903 S06, lS5,
uses $3.50 $50 TOO worth of materials, and turns
out products to the value of S63l, ,51l,4S4. Hi
nois, with 1853 establishments, employs a
capital of $l4O,652, ,O66 uses materials valued
at S2S9. .S26, ,907, and turns out products valued
at $4l4, ,S64 ,673 Ohio with 20,699 establish
ments, employs q capital of S1S9 939, Ga, con-
sumes materials valued at $2l5095, ,026, and
turns out products valued ct $34S, ,305,390.
Next in order in value of products, but not in
number of establishments. capital employed, or
value of materials, follow Connecticut, Missouri,
Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, California, Mary
IOl.z
ing from $175, ,6SO,211 for Connecticut to $780,
I63.G23 for Rhode Island. The other States and
Territories are all below $lO0,O00,0OO in value
of products.
The total number Of persons unable TO re9d
and write in the United States, from ten years
of age and upward, according to the tenth CEN
sus are as follows, as shown by census bulletin,
No. 303 just issued by the Superintendent of
the Census: Population over ten years of age,
96,761, ,607; number unable TO read, A. 500, ,451;
number unable to write, 6239, ,95s.
The dispatches from the country last week to
Bradstreet's continue to give assurance that the
general trade situation is sufficiently well gov
erned to Withstand the effect of the reduction
in iron. The weather in the South continues
favorable for cotton picking. Wheat has ad-
vanoed this week In the New York market on
on account Of the scarcity and high prices of
all varieties of grain and roots in Europe The
Western markets, however, are weak yet.
Corn has been advanced to $1.05 per bushel this
the scarcity, and also of corner. Provisions
dselined during the week. The iron market
has bean injuriously affected by reports con-
cerning the disturbed condition in which it is
laboring. This is ESPECIALLY true of the Besse-
msr steel rail industry. A capacity in excess
Of requirements and severe competition are the
immediate causes Of existing troubles. There
is no perceptible improvement in the manu-
featured iron markets. Pig iron is suffering
from causes allied TO that affecting the steel
rail industry. Petroleum has suffered violent
fluctuations during the week, and the market
hiss been generally lower. There have been no
new features in the coal trade worthy of men,
tion. The demand for ocean tonnage is notice
able mainly for grain loading at Baltimore and
for cotton at southern ports. The wool trade
is quiet, as manufacturers are buying only for
current wants, but the market is fairly steady
for all desirable grades. There were III fail
ures in the United States during the past week
four more than the preceding week, and 56
more than the corresponding week last year.
A Northern Pacific Railroad car with exhib-
its of the cereal, vegetable, and mineral pro-
ducts of Minnesota Dakota, Montana, Wash
ington, and Oregon, reached Philadelphia last
week, and was run into the old passenger STA
ton Of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Thirty
second and Market streets. 1t started from ST.
Paul, September 18th, passing through the best
portions OF the States of Iowa, Illinois, Indi-
ana, Michigan, Ohio, New York, and portions
of Maryland, and along the main line Of the
Pennsylvania road 1t is one of the largest
cars in use on the Northern Pacific road being
larger than Pullman and bears upon its sides
mcdallions inscribed, d" Products of the Golden
Northwest" and the names of the States and
Territories through which the road passes The
exhibits consist Of wheat, with specimens on
the stalk stalks Of corn twelve feet six inches
in height, varieties of grasses, vegetables, min
erals, including some silver ore assaying $500
70 the ton, specimens Of granite, amethysts
and zoolites, bricks petrifed wood, natural
lime and twenty-five varieties of wood from
the Minnesota forests. Fine views Of the coun-
try through which the road runs hang from
the SIDES Of the car.
The successful application Of the processes
FOR making sugar from sorghum, discovered by
Professors ScoviIle and Weber, Of the Illinois
State Indutrial University, has caused great
excitement all over the State and farmers are
getting ready to 30 into the sorghum sugar
business which will give them larger profit
10 the acre than any other product. On 250
acres the company who have been using the
new processes have produced 125,000 pounds of
sugar and 22,5O0 gallons of molasses, valued at
$4,000, or an average Of $40 TO the acre.
In the whole United States there are 1891
private bankers with an aggregate capital of
SHAPE, ,892 and aggregate deposits OF $685.
622 lG0 and with SI4, $40, ,745 invested in United
States bonds.
The starch manufacturers of the United States
have formed pool" to prevent the price of
that commodity from falling below a certain
fgure.
RAILROADS
Two wealthy New England Iumberrnen pro-
pose spending 100000 in building railway
into the Adirondack wilderness The people
of Malone have called public meeting with a
view Of asking that Malone be mado the ter
minus Of the new road. The projectors of the
road have bought sixty square miles of the
finest land, which they will clear oc timber
when the road is completed thus denuding a