The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07

production for the quarter ending sep-y
tember 80, 1892, was 10,952,725 pounds.i
INCREASE OF WAGES.
The report of Labor Commissioner
Peck, of New York, shows that during
the year 1891, in about six thousand
manufacturing establishments in that
state embraced within the special in
quiry made by him, and representing
sixty-soveA different industries, there
was a net increase over the year 1890 Of
S9l. .315, l30.6S in the value of the pro-
duct, and of S6,377, ,925 90 in the amount
Of wages paid. The report Of the COM
missioner OF labor for tho state OF Mas
sachusetts shows that 3,745 industries
in that state paid Sl29r r4l6,24S in wages
during the year 1891, against Sl26, ,O3O,-
903 in 1890, an increase OF s., $40,
and that there was an increase OF 3d.
932. 400 in tho amount of capital, and of
7,34G in the number of persons 'em-
ployed in the same period.
| IRON PRODUCTION.
During the last six months Of ffthe
year 1891 and tho first six months of
1892 the total production OF pig iron
was 9,710, $40 tons, as against 9,2O27 7OS
tons in the year 1890, which was tho,
largest annual production ever attained,
For the same twelve months Of lS9l-92
the production Of Bessemer ingots was
3,S7S,5SI tons, an increase Of 1870
gross tons over the previously unpre-,
cedented yearly product OF 3,6SS,S71
gross tons in 1890. The production OF
| fnr thn frat
months of 1892 was 772, ,436 gross tons,
as against 702, ,0S0 gross tons during the
last six months of tho year 1891.
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE..
The total value OF our foreign trade
exports and imports Of merchandise)
during tho last fiscal year was $751;
GsO,8lO, an increase OF Sl2S, ,2S8,6O4 over
the previous fiscal year. Tho average
annual value OF our imports and exH
ports OF merchandise for the ten fiscal
years prior to 1891 was 81 ,457, ,322, ,Ol9. tt
will be eobserved that our foreign trade Tor
1892 exceeded this annual average value
by $400, ,35S, ,59l, an increase OF 21.H per
cent, Tho significance and value Of this
increase is shown by tho fact that tho,
excess in the trade Of 1892 ever 1891 was
wholly in the value Of exports. for
there was decrease in the value oil I'M,
ports OF Sl7,5l3,754.
The value OF our exports during the,
fiscal year 1892 reached the highest fig
ure in the history OF the government,
amounting to 1,030, 27S, las, exceeding
by $l45, ,797, 1888 the exports OF 1891, and
exceeding the value OF the imports by
500, ,S75, ,6s6. A comparison OF the value
of our exports for 1892 with the annual
average for the ten years prior TO lo9L
shows an excess OF S265, IA, ,65l, or OF
34.65 per cent. The value OF our i'm.
ports OF merchandise for 1892, which
was $s20, ,402, 1852. also exceeded the an
nual average value Of the ten years PRIOR
to 1891 by Sl35, ,2l5,94O. During tho tisca!
year 1892 the value Of imports free OF
duty amounted to S457, ,999,G5S,. the
largest aggregate in the history oil our
commerce.
The value of the imports OF merchan-
disc entered free OF duty in 1872 was
55.35 per cent of the total value oE I'M
ports. as compared with 1885 per cent
in 1891, and 33.66 per cent in lsVO.
OUR coAsTwIsE COMMERCE..
In our coastwise trade a most encour-
aging development is in progress, there
having been in the last four years an
increase OF 16 per cent. Tho statistics
show that no such period Of prosperity
has ever before existed. inc
freight carried in the coastwise trade OF
the great lakes in 1890 aggregated %
295, $3.50 tons. On the Mississippi, Mis-
souri, and Ohio rivers, and tributarlesI
in tho same year the traffic aggregated
29,405,046 tons, and the total vessel ton
mage passing through the Detroit river
during that year was 2l,6ShOOO tons.
Thevessel tonnage entered and cleared
in the foreign trade OF London during
1890 amounted to l3,iSOI67 tons, and OF
Liverpool lO,40l, 500 tons, total ior
these two great shipping ports OF "a;
422,56S tons, only slightly in excess OF
the vessel tonnage passing through tho
Detroit river. And it should DO said
that the season for the Detroit river
was but 22S days, while, OF course, in
London and Liverpool the season was
ior the entire year. Tho vessel tonnage
passing through the St, Marys' canal
for tho fiscal year 1892 amounted 10