The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-07

AJ1 ASA
Law.
WASHINGTON. Dec 6.-President Harri-
sons message to congress reads as follows:
TO tho Senate and House Of Representatives:
In submitting my annual message TO
congress | have great satisfaction in being
able to say that the general conditions as
affecting the commercial and industrial
interests of the United States are in the
highest degree favorable A comparison
Of the existing conditions with those of
The most favorable period in the history of
The country will, | believe, show that 50
high degree of prosperity and so general
a diffusion of the comforts of life were
never before enjoyed by our people.
7 he total wealth of the country in 1860
was SIC l59. GIG, 0GS; in 1890 it amounted to
So, ,Gl0. .OO0 900, an increase of 2S6 per cent.
The total mileage of the railways In the
United States in 1860 was 30 626; in 1890 it
was lG1, 14l, an increase OF 44S per cent;
and il j. estimated that there will be about
4 900 miles Of track added by the close Of
the year 1892.
MANUFACTURES.
The official returns of the eleventh CEN
sus and those Of the tenth census for sew
vuty-iive Leading cities furnished the basis
for the following comparisons: In 1850
the capital invested in manufacturing WAS
s., 232 ,S39, $40; in 1890 the capital invested
IN manufacturing was s. 900, 730, SS4. In
1850 the number of employees was !, l,30l3SS;
in 1899 the number of employees was 2.21,-
1@A In 1850 the wages earned were SJOl,-
gG5. rs; in 1890 the wages earned were
81, ,29l. 100, Al In 1880 the value Of the
products was S2,7ll ,519,9g9; IN 1890 the
value of the products was 81, SEQ, 2o6 S31 l
am informed 10y the superintendent of the
census that the omission of certain indus
tries in 1850 which were included in 1890
accounts in part for the remarkable in
crease thus shown; but, after making full
allowance for differences in methods aud
deducting the returns for all Industries
not included IN the census of 1880 there
remains in the reports from these seventy
five cities an increase in the capital en-
ployed of 81, So. 745 ,G04; in the value of the
products of S2,0l4, ,236, l66; in the wages
earned of S677, 943, ,929, and IN the number
fwage earners employed of SJ6,029 The
wage, earning not only shows an increased
aggregate, but an increased per capita
from $3.50 in 1850 to S547 in 1890, or ALL
per cent.
since Oct 9th, 1890, and up to Oct. -, 1892,
as partially reported in the American
Economist, number 345, and the extension
of existing plants los; the new capital in
vested amounts TO $40, ,449. .050, and the
number of additional employees 20 37,2S5.
The Textile World for July. 1892. stated
that during the first sixteenth OF the pres
ent calender year l35 new factories were
built, of which forty are cotton mills,
fortv-eight knitting mills twenry-slX
wooden mills. fifteen silk mills, four plush
mills and two linen mills. Of the forty
cotton mills tweHty-one have been built
in the southern states.
Mr. A B. Shepperson of the New York
cotton exchange, estimates the number of
working spindles in the United States On
sept. l. 1882. at Il, ,200 600, an increase of
U60. 600 over the year 1891. The consump-
ton of cotton by American mills in lSyl
WAS :. Sg6 0cG bales and in 1892 25S4 00J
bales, an increase OF 1SS,O0O bales. From
the year 1860 10 1892, inclusive, there has
been An increase in the consumption of
cotton in Europe of % per cent, while dur
ing the same period the increase OF con
sumption in the United States has been
about $50 per cent
The report Of Ira Aver, special agent of
the treasury department, shows that al
the date OF Sept. 80, 1892, there were thirty
two companies manufacturing thu and
jerne plates in the United States and four
teen companies building new works for
such manufacture. The estimated invest
meut in buildings and plants at the eud of
the GsCal year ending June 50, lS93-if eX-
lsting conditions were to be continued
was s. nlpIO0. and the estimated rate OF
production 210, ,e10:0oO pounds per annum.
The actual proaaClo for the qaarterend-
ing Sept 30 1892. was 10, 955, rs pounds.
The report of Labor Commissioner Peck
y 2 l,,e 3far- -1T,tr haa -
1891 in ABOUT q 900 manufacturing esJab-
..smments IN that state, embraced within
the sprCIa. inquiry made by him, and rep
reSenJIug sINgy-seVen different industries,
there was net increase over the year 1899
OF SSl, ,3l5.l&0tS IN the value of the produce,
aud of 81 6,Sss1, 50 % in the amount of wages
paid The report of the commissioner Of
Tabor for the State of Massachusetts shows
that 3.145 industries In that state paid
Sl29 40. 249 i'm wages during the year 1891,
against SI-6 $50. 303 in 1890, an increase Of
So g25 9+5. and that there was an increase
OF - g33, 500 in the amount OF capital and
and of : SO in the number OF persons en-
p.oyed in the same period.
Daring The last SIX months Of the veqr
1891 ana the first six months Of 1892. the
to,ai production of pig iron was g.2l9.1O5
tons as "EaIrst 9,1O9 EOS tons 10
tur wear 1890, which was the larg-
Cst-aunuBl production ever attained. For
TUe same twelve months OF lS9l-lSs2 the
production Of BesSrmer luGors was
SSIS,5S tons. an increase of lSq 40 gross
tons over the previously unprecedented
yearly production OF 3,69S,S71 gross tons in
1890 The production OF Bessemer steel
rolls for the nret six months OF 1892 was
a.. 4S6 gross tons, rs against 702, ESQ gross
tons during the last six months OF the
year OF 1891.
FOREIGN COMMERCE.
The total value of oar foreign trade lex
ports and import>l during the last fiscal
year was 81, So, $50, ,60S, an Increase OF SIPS.
26S, ,6O4 eyer tae previous fiscal year. The
average annual value of imports aud ex-
ports Of merchandise for the ten fi.c.l
years prior TO 1891 was 81, ,457. So. .Ol9. L;
will be observed that our foreign
trade for 1892 exceeded this an
uual average value by S4UO. .53S SgI.
an increase Of 2I4I per cent The sIgnI-
ficance and value Of this increase are shown
by The fact that the excess in the trade
OF 1892 over 1891. was wholly in the value
cf exports; for there was a decrease iu the
value of exports of Sis ,5l3, PSI. The vaiu-
OF the exports during the fiscal year 1892
reached the highest figures IN the hi>yur,
of the government, amounting To 81 $50
27S, las, exceeding by 1885, ,535 Jur a..
ports Of 1891, and exceeding the value 81.
the imports by S3O2. SO, CSC \ comparison
OF the value Of our imports for 1872 Will
the annual average for the ten years prior
60 1891 shows an excess of $50, I42 65l, o.
"a o5 per cent. The value OF our imports