Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-12-09
Text of the Presidents Message as
Transmitted to the Fifty-second
Congress.
The Various Secretaries Make Their
Reports and Submit sundry
Recommendations.
The Chief Magistrate Urges Measures
s for the Care and Welfare of
Old Soldiers.
The Message.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Following is
g the text of President Harrison's mes
sage to congress-:
IL To the Senate and House of Representa-
9si6 tives:
In submitting my annual message to
i congress have great satisfaction in be-
Ing able to say that the general coudi-
ttons aHectin the commercial and indus
q trial interests of the United States are in
the highest degree favorable. A compar-
. tson of the existing conditions with those
Of the most favored period In the history
OF the country will, believe show that
II 30 high degree of prosperity and so gen
Il eral q diffusion of the comforts of life
were never before enjoyed by our people.
Wealth of the Country.
The total wealth of the country in 1860
was $16, ,159, ,6l6,U68. In 1890 it amounted
n to s62, 6l0.000,0O0, an increase of 2S7 per
cent.
The total mileage of railways in the
United States in 1850 was 81, 626; in 1890 il;
q was l67, ,74l, an increase of 448 per cent;
c and 1t is estimated that there will be
& about 4, 900 miles Of track added by the
close of the year 1892. y
The official returns of the Eleventh CEN
#B # sus and those of the Tenth census for IS
leading cities furnished the basis for the
following comparisons:
In 1880 the capital invested in manufac-
tnring was 81, 1882, $685.
In 1890 the capital invested in manufac
y turing was 1900, 735,ss4.
1n{l880 the number of employees was
..s 30, 1888.
In 1890 the number o; employees was
2,P51, 1874.
SSs In 1880 the wages earned were 1901 $685.
77s
In 1890 the wages earned were 81 ,221 no.,
& 464
In 1880 the value of the product was $2,-
~, SIS, ,s99.
In 1890 the value of the product was s4,-
Il $50, ,286, ,S37.
am informed by the superintendent
3sof the census that the omission of cer-
tain industries in 1880 which were in
Il cluded in 1890 accounts in part of the re-
s markable increase thus shown, but after
making full allowances for differences of
method and deducting the returns for all
u industries not included in the census of
1880, there remain in the reports from
81 these seventy five cities an increase in the
capital employed of Sl,522, 5,604; in the
value of the product of S2,O24, 1886, 1866; in
wages earned of s677, ,943 ,929, and in the
number of wage carriers employed of
Is 656029. The wage earnings not only
show van an increased aggregate, but an in
crease per capita from 1886 in 1880 to $547
in 1890; or II per cent.
Growth of Ind dustriaI Plants.
| The new industrial plants established
4 since Oct. 6, 1890, and up to Oct. %, 1892,
Sas partially reported in the American
y Economist, number 345, and the extension
-; ba
\ vested amounts to $40, ,449, ,05O, and the
mum Der Of additional employees to g."
152S5. 49,
4 The Textile World for July, 1892, states
that during the first six months of the
present calendar year 1876 new factories
Were built, of which 46 are cotton mills,
n zS knitting mills, 81 woolen mills, Is silk
ASmil Ills, plush mills and 2 linen mills. OF
lDtths 10 cotton mills 81 have been built in
1.-THE Southern states. Mr.. A. B. Shep-
HhersOn, Of the New York Cotton En-
lEchAnge, estimates the number of working
lapindles In the United States on Sept. /,
l|1eg2, at 10, 200, 900, an increase Of G6o,00O
.}iover the year 1891. The consumption of
! fhptton by American mills In 1891 was
e98, 900 bales, and in 1892. 1854 900 bales,
s increase Of 188, 900 bales From the
8ear 1859 to 1892 inclusive, there has been
Iik0fAuUI0do0 yA5Ou0 COAo COltOu
HI Europe Of 81 per ceat, while during the
ieame period the increased consumption
||,5ln the United States has been about 15J
|s]lpsr cent.
ASy The Tin Ind ustry.
The report Of Ira Aver, special agent Of
Hha treasury department, shows that at
1hS date of Sept 80, 1892, there were
ahiTty-two companies manufacturing tin
lind terne plate in the United States and
Apnrtesn companies building new works
E1pr such manufacture. The estimated
81 ysstment in buildings and plants at the
}oee Of the fiscal year, June 80, 1893, il
fsting conditions were to be continued.
J as y 900 1000. and the estimated rate Of
4 oducti lon 2OU, ,000, 900 pounds per annum.
I he actual production of the quarter end
Sept. 80, 1892. was 1O, 952, ,725 pounds.
\ Com q issioners Peck's Report.
report Of Labor Commissions
of Naw York, shows that during
/ oar 1891 IL about six thousand
Z taring estA blis hmeats "a that /