The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-12-07

employed of $1522, 745 Ga. in the value of
the product of S2.024, 236. 166, in the wages
earned of $677, ,944.929. and in the number
of wage earners employed of S56029. The
aggregate. hut an increase per capita from
1886 in 1880 to $545 in 1890. or ALI per
cent.
Tho number of industrial plants estab-
lished since Oct. 6, 1890 and up to Oct. %,
1892 rs partially reported in the Amei ican
Economist, number 345. and tho extension
of existing plants 1SO The new capital in
vested amounts to $40, 449 o50, and the num-
ber of additional employees to 37.295. The
Textile World for July. 1892, states that
during the first six months of tho present
ca lendar year 1856 now factories were built,
of which torty are cotton mills forty-eight
knitting mills. twenty y-six wooden mills. tif-
teen silk mills. forty plush mills, anu two
linen mills. or the forty cotton mills
twenty-one have been built in the southern
states. Mr.. A. B. Shepperdson, of the New
York Cotton exchange, estimates tho num-
Der of working spindles in the United
States on Sept. l, 1892. at 1856, 100000. an liz
crease OF G60. 900 over the year 1891.
The consumption of cotton by American
mills in 1891 was 2, 1856, 600 bales. and in 1892
., 584 600 bales, an increase of 1SS.000 bales
From 1869 to 1892 inclusive there has been
| an increase in the consumption of cotton in
Europe of 92 per cent, while during the
same period the increase of consumption in
tho United States has been about 10 per
cent. The report of Ira Aver, special agent
of the tteasuty department. shows that at
the date Sept. 80. 1892, there were thiity-
two companies manufacturing tin and tin
plate in the United States and fourteen
companies building now works for such
manufacture. The estimates of invest
ments in buildings Mt the close of the fiscal
year June 80, 1892. il existing conditions
we're to be counted. was 5000 900. and the
estimated rate of production 100000, GOO
pounds per annum. The actual production
! for the quarter ending Sept. so, 1892, was
| 10.952,725 pounds. The report of
the labor commissioner OF New
York shows that during tho year
| 1891, in about 6, 600 manufacturing estab-
lishments in that state, embraced within
the spe cial inquiry nude bv him, and rep
| resenting sixty y-sevsn different industries.
| there was II net increase over the yenr 1880
OF $31. 80, 130.6S i'll tho value of the product
and of 81, 397 925. 90 in tho amount of wages
pnid. The report of the commissioner OF
| labor for tho state of Massachusetts shows
tnat 3T5 industries IN that state paid
| $l29, 4i6. 23S in wages during the year 1891,
| again.t $126, o30, ,303 in 1890, an increase OF
| S3335, ,95. and that the Q was nm increase
| of 80. 993, $40 III tho amount of capital and
| OF ,36 in the number of persons employed
| in the same period.
Duriug the last six months OF tho year
1891 and the first ak months OF 1892 the
| total production of pig iron was ., 7l0,Si9
tons. us against .. 209, 703 tons in the year
| 1890. which was tho largest annual pro-
duction ever obtained for the same months.
| In 1891 1892 the production of Bessemer
| ingots was 3,S7S.5Sl tons, an increase of
| 1S9 10 gross tons over tho previously un'
| precedentod yearly production of 35SS,s5l
| gross topa in 1890. The production OF Bease-
mer steel rails fort he hrst Six months oi