The record-union., 1892-12-07
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.-Following is
the final message of President Harrison,
which was delivered to both Houses Of
Congress to-day:
To The Senate and House of Representatives:
In submitting my annual message to Con-
gress have great satisfaction in being able to
say that the general conditions affecting the
commercial and industrial interests OF the
United States are in the highest degree favor
able. A comparison of the existing condi-
tions with those Of the most favored period
in the history of the country, will itself show
eral diffusion of the comforts of life, We're
never before enjoyed by our people,
WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY.
The total wealth of the country in 1850 was
S16,159.6 .616,06S. In 1890 it amounted to
G2,610,o0O,00 an increase of 2S7 per cent.
MILEAGE OF RAILWAYS.
The total mileage of railways in the United
States in 1860 was 30,626; in 1890 it was
1S7,741, an increase of 44S per cent; and it
Is estimated that there will be about 4 900
miles of track added by the close of the year
1892.
MANUFACTURING.
The official returns of the eleventh census,
and those OF the tenth, for seventy-hve lead
ing cities, furnished the basis for the follow
ing comparisons: In 1850 the capital invest
ed in manufacturing was 81 ,232, S39, $40. In
1890 the capital invested in manufacturing
was $2,900,735 ,SS4. In 1850 the number
number of employees was 1921, ,134. In 1880
the wages earned were S5O1, ,965,77S. In
1890 the wages earned were 81 ,221, ,17O,454
In 1850 the value of products was S2.71l-
579,990. In 1890 the value of products was
S4,S60,2S6,S37.
l am informed by the Superintendent of the
census that the omission of certain Industries
in 1850, which were included in 1890, ac-
counts in part for the remarkable increase
thus shown, but alter making full allowances
for the differences of the method and deduct
ing the returns for all industries not included
in the census of 1850, there remain in the re-
ports from these seventy-five cities an increase
in the capital employed of S1,522. 745, ,604,
in the value of the products of So, ,O24,236-
166, in wages earned of S677, ,943 929, and
in the number of wage-earners employed of
oob,O29. Inc wage earnings not only show
an increased aggregate, but an increase per
capita from 1886 in 1880 to S547 in 1890,
or 41.71 per cent.
The new industrial plants established since
October 8, 1880, and up to October 22, 1882,
as partially reported in the american EconO-
mlSt, number $40 and the extension OF exist
ing plants 1OS. The new capital invested
amounts TO S40,449,o50, and the number of
additional employees to 37,2S5.
The Terrific World for July. 1899. states that
during the first six months of the present cal
endar year 135 new factories were built of
which forty are cotton mills, forty-elght
teen silk mills, forty plush mills, and two
linen mills. OF the forty cotton mills twenty
one have been built in the Southern States.
CONSUMPTION OF COTTON.
"A. Is. SnepperQsOn OF the New YORK Cotton
Exchange estimates the number of working
spindles in the United States on September i
1S92. at 100000, an increase of $50. 900
over the year 1891. The consumption OF
cotton by American mills in 1891 was Q 1885,
600 bales, and in 1892 it was 2.5S4, 900
bales, an increase of ISIS, 900 bales. From the
year 1869 to 1892 inclusive there has been
an increase in the consumption of cotton in
Europe of 90 per cent, while during the same
period the increase of consumption in the
United States has been almost 10 per cent.
Pr
The report Of Ira Aver, Special Agent of the
Treasury Department, shows at the date Sep
tember 80, 1892, there were thirty-two COM
panies manufacturing tin and tin plate in the
United States, and fourteen companies build
ing new works for such manufacture. The
estimates of investments in buildings at the
close of the fiscal year. June 80, 1882, if ex-
listing conditions were to be counted was So
100000, and the estimated rate of produc-
uon 2OO,OOOOOO pounds per annum. The
actual production for the quarter ending Sep
tember 80, 1892, was 1O,9J2, 725 pounds.
REPORTS OF LABOR COMMISSIONERS
The report OF Labor Commissioner Peck of
New York shows that during the year 1891
there We're about 5000 manufacturing estab-
lishments in that State embraced within the
special inquiry made by him, and represent
ing sixty-seven different industries. There
was net increase over the year $50 of S31.-
315.130 IS in the value of the product and
S6.34 .925 O9 in the amount of wages paid
The report of the Commissioner of Labor for
the state of Massachusetts shows that 375 in
dustries in that State paid S129,416, ,23S in
wages during the year 1891, against SI26.-
O3O,3O3 IN 1890 an increase OF S3,335, ,945,
and there was am increase of S9,993, $40 in
the amount of capital. and of 1896 in the
number of persons employed in the same pc
riod.
IRON INDUSTRY
During the last six months of the year 1891
and the first SIX months of 1899 the total
production of pig iron was 8, 10, SIG tons, as
against 8 2O9,1O3 tons in the year 1890
which was the largest annual production ever
obtained. For the same months of lS91-92
the production OF BeSSemer ingOts was 8,S7 s.
5S1 TONS an increase of 1S9,710 gross TONS
over the previously unprecedented yearly
production of 8, ,6SS, 81 gross tons in 1890.
The production of Bessemer-steel rails for the
first six months of 1889 was 772,436 gross
tons as against 5O2,0o0 gross tons during
the last six months of the year 1891.
FOREIGN TRADE.
The total value of our foreign trade exports
and manufactures during the last fiscal year
was 81 So, $50 0.61O, an increase OF S126.-
263 6O4 over the previous fiscal year. The
average annual value of our imports and ex-
port OF merchandise for the ten fiscal years
prior to 1891 was 81, ,457, ,322,019. 1t will
be observed that our foreign trade for 1892
exceeded this annual average value by $780,
35S. .39l. an increase of 27.41 per cent. The
significance and value of this increase are
shown by the facts that the excess IN the
trade of 1892 over 1891 was wholly IN the
Value of exports, for there was decrease in
the value of imports OF Sl1;o13.2o4. Inc
value of our exports during the nscal year
1892 reached the highest figure in the history
of the Government, amounting 70 81 ,o3o,-
27S,14S, exceeding by S14,79l 1885 the e1.
ports of 1891, and exceeding the value OF
the imports by S202, 81 1856. a comparl-