The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-07


WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 president Har-
rison submitted his message to Congress
to-day. The message contains largo
amount of statistics in favor Of pro.
lection and also deals with other ques.
lions of the day in very thorough
manner. The message opens as fol
lows:
I'm submitting my annual message
to Congress have great satisfaction in
being able to say that tho general con-
ditions affecting the commercial and in
dustrial interests of the United States
are in the greatest degree favorable. A
comparison of the existing conditions
with those OF the most favored period in
the history of the country will, be
liove, show that so high degree OF
prosperity and SO general difference
OF the com forts of life were never before
enjoyed by our people.
The total wealth Of the country in
1860 was SlG.l59, 6lG,O6S. In 1890 It
amounted to S62, 6lO, 900, 600, an increase
of 2s7 per cent. The total mileage OF
railways in tho United States in 1860
was 30,626. In 1890 it was 1G7,T4l, an
increase OF AS per cent, and it is esti-
mated that there will be about 900
miles of track added by tho close Of the
year 1892. The official returns of the
eleventh census and those Of the tenth
census for soventyfve leading cities
furnish the basis for the following COM
parison,:
''ln 1850 the capital invested in manu-
featuring was Sl,232, $50, gro In 1890
tho capital invested in manufacturing
was 1900 1885, SS4 In 1880 tho number
OF employees was l,130,3SS. In 1890 tho
number OF employees was 2,a5l,l34. In
1850 tho wages earned were $5Ol, COS, :
76S. In 1890 the wages earned were
1921, l70,454. In 1850 the value OF tho
product was 2,7l1,57o, 1850, In 1890 tho
value Of the product was 81 $50. ESQ S37.
Il am informed by the superintendent
OF the census that the omission OF cer-
tain industries in 1850, which were in
cluded in 1890, accounts in part for the
remarkable increase thus shown But,
after making full allowance Tor differ
ence Of method and deducting the re
turns for all industries not included in
tho census of 1880, there remain in the
reports from these seventy five cities
an increase in the capital employed of
1889, 7i5, GOA; in the value of the pro.
duct Of S2,024, 2a6, 166; in tho wages
earned of SOFT, s43, 990, and in tho NUN.
Der OF wage earners employed of $780,
O20. The wage earnings not only show
an increased aggregate, but an increase
per capita from 1886 in 1880 to S5i7 in
1890. or 41.71 per cent.
The new industrial plants estab.
lished since October 6, 1890, and up to
October 90, 1892, as partially reported
in the American Economist. number
345, and the extension of existing plants
1928; the new capital invested amounts
to $40, 449, 050, and the numb Der Of addi-
tional employees to 37,2s5.
The Textile World for July, 1892,
states that during the first SIX months
Of the present calendar year 1875 new
factories were built, Of which forty are
cotton mills, for:y-eight knitting mills,
twenty-siX WOODEN mills, fifteen silk
mills, four plush mills and two linen
mills. OF the forty cotton mills twenty
one have been built in the Southern
States. MIR. A. b. Sheppcrson, of the
New York Cotton Exchange. estimates
the number OF working epindles in the
$4,000, 600. an increase of 100000 over
the year 1891. The consumption of cot
ton by American mills, in 1891, was
2.396, COO bales and in 1892 2,5s4 900
bales, an increase of lSS, 900 bales.
From tho year 1869 to 1892 inclusive
there has been an increase in tho con-
sumption of cotton in Europe OF % per
cent while during tho same period tho
increased consumption in the United
States has been about $50 per cent
Tho report of Ira Aver, special agent
OF the Treasury Department, shows
that at the date of Septem Der 80, 1892,
there were thirty two companies manu-.
| featuring tin and tin plate in the United
States and fourteen companies building
new works for SUCH manufacture. The
estimated investment in buildings and
| plants ut the close of the fiscal year
June 80, 1898, if existing conditions
wcro to DO continued, YVES $500, 0nO and
the estimated rate of production $50,
COO, 000 pou ads per annum. The actual
| production for the quarter ending Sep
tcmber 30, 1899, was 1O.053,7 25 pounds.
Labor Commissioner Peck. who made
such sensation during the campaign,
is quoted to show the increase of
wages, as Is also the report of
the commissioner of Massachusetts,
The President gives statistics in
regard to the production OF
pig iron and bessemer steel. The pro,
duction OF bessemer steel rails for the
past six months of 1892 was 772.436
gross tons, as against TOE, $50 gross
tons during the last six months Of the
year 1891
FOREIGN TRADE AND EXPORTS.
The message shows an increase in the
value of our foreign trade for the past
final year OF S2s, 2s6. Goa.
The average annual value of our i'm.
ports and exports of merchandise for
the ten fiscal years prior to 1891 was
Sl,457, 322,O l9. 1t will be observed that
our foreign trade for 1892 exceeds this
annual average value by $500. 35s. 59l,
an increase of Plat per cent