The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-07-17
OUR MANUfkc7URERES

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Soz5,0O0, 900 of material.
Inc manufactures of Brooklyn are an
auallYvalued at $22S, 100000.
has 1880 factory hands, making
,047 worth of goods.
Louis annually makes up and sells
10000 worth of goods.
Nebraska has 1886 factory hands and
annual product of 500, O37 1874.
The United States is the leading manu-
acturing nation of the world.
The manufactures of Baltimore are val
1ed annually at nearly $15O,OOO,OO0.
The value of the manufactured products
j OF New York exceeds $3.50 600, 900.
Florida has in her factories 1927 per-
sons, the annual output being $1S,222, 800.
Washington has 2O,366 factory hands
and makes $41, 76S, o22 worth of product.
Tennessee has 42,759 manufacturing
hands and makes $72,355,2S6 worth OF
goods.
- Oregon has 1878 hands in her factor
les and makes every year $41,432, ia
worth Of goods.
!. Twenty years ago England produced
nearly three times as much iron as the
United States.
Delaware has 81 900 persons engaged in
Its manufactures, the annual output be-
ing $37,571,848.
Louisiana has 31,9O1 hands engaged in
Its factories, their annual product being
$57,806,713.
Wyoming has liza persons engaged in
manufacturing and makes $2,367 sol
worth of goods
Kentuckys factories employ $3.50
hands, and send out annually product
valued at $126,719857.
Kansas has 32.S43 mill and factory
hands, making every year product val
ued at $110,219, 8O5.
The factories Of Indiana furnish en-
ployment to 124,349 persons, the output
being $22,S25,OS2.
Colorado has 1907 employees in it's fac
tories, making annually a product valued
at S42, 4S0,2O5.
In Arkansas 1874 persons are en-
ployed in manufacturing, who turn out a
product of $22, 659,17
California has 1852 employed in it's
manufactures, turning out an annual
product of $213, 4O3, 1896
The factories of Missouri employ 143, 139
hands, the annual output being valued at
1924, 561 $685.
Nevada has 62O persons, said to be en-
gagged In manufacturing, and their annual
pr4duct is $1,105,O63.
Our immigrants from Italy, Bohemia,
Hungary and Russia rarely engage in
any line Of manufacture.
In 1880 there were in this country 562
blast furnaces, 224 being in the state of
Pennsylvania.
In 1890 there were 1853 steel works in
this country, nearly half of which were
in Pennsylvania
Little Connecticut has 1893 hands in
its factories, making every year goods
valued at $248,336, 1854
Idaho has TIA persons engaged in the
manufacturing business, the annual out
put being $1,396,O96.
The Indian population are not skillful
In any line of manufacture, save their
own crude industries.
Dakota has 426 persons engaged in
manufactures, the annual output of the
factories being $40, 710,S55.
In 1892 the manufacture of iron rails
had almost ceased, while nearly 1,5OO, 900
steel rails were made.
In the Indian territory only ITS per-
sons are engaged in manufacturing, their
: annual output being $24S,932.
Wisconsin is important in manufacture
ing, having 132,031 hands and making
$248, 546, 164 worth of product
Maryland has 107,054 persons engaged
In manufacture, the annual value of
whose product is $171 S42, $685.
Michigan is rich in manufacture, en-
ploying 1894 men and sending out
every year $277 1896, 706 worth of goods.
Every year sees development in the
m "a n
spread toward the West and South
Oklahoma is said to have 1876 persons
employed in manufacturing, and their
annual product is valued at $180,445.
New York, the greatest of our CONNER
cial cities and the leading seaport, is
also the greatest manufacturing state.
In 1880 the wages paid to cotton-will
hands aggregated $42,000000; ten years
later it had increased to $66,OO0,0OO
! The wooden factories of this country
are mostly located in New York, New
England, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
West Virginia has 21969 hands in her
manufacturing establishments and turns
out $38, 702, 1875 worth of product.
The proportion between capital and
product has steadily diminished since
1850 from 80 per cent down to II per
cent.
In 1880 the amount of capital invested
in cotton factories was $20S,000 900; 10
years later it had risen to 1884 900, 900.
Montana has only 1906 persons en-
ployed in factories, these establishments
turning out a product valued at $5,5O7,-
! 573.
Mulhall says that the manufactures of
the United States exceed those of Great
Britain in the proportion of to 4.
In 1870 the gross nrOduct of fho ZION
mills was valued at $267 600 900; 10 years
! later it had increased to $685., OOO, 900.
In the manufactures of Alabama there
are employed 1891 hands, who turn out
| annually s51, 226.6O5 worth of product.
New Mexico has only 944 persons in
her factories, their abor producing ST.
| 616195 worth of manufactured articles
every year.
In 1880 the value of materials used in
the cotton mills of this country was
S102, 900 900, while in 1890 the value had
risen to $155, 900, 900.
In manufacturing Pennsylvania stands
next to New York. employing $40, 562
hands and sending out 1881, 794, 9O1
worth of product.
In 1880 the average amount of capital
Invested in each factory was S275, 900.
r while in 1890 the average capital to each
was $685., 200.
The manufacture of iron rails for rail-
roads has almost discontinued, steel
rails haveing been substituted for iron
during the last few years.
New Jersey ranks high among the
Manufacturing states, having 1877. 1893
ctory hands and making every wear
A,5T&571 worth Of goods.