The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-06-10
WEALTH OF THE STATE
Fully Set Forth in the Report of
Labor SlatiStiCian Jefferson
D. Wade.

contained in the annual report, Just issued,
of State Labor Statistician Jefferson ID.
Wade In the different counties OF the
State there are 9ll different industries EN-
ploying 81 ,592 persons, and SS1 corpora
tions with a capital stock of Sl3l, 1913, T}3.
Mr.. Wade gives at considerable length and
with precision the agricultural features of
each of the counties, combining with this
information some of the features of the
geography of the State.
Descriptions of each county are given
with statistics of the industrial enterprises
that flourish therein. The volume gives
also resume of the labor laws passed by
the General Assembly of 1893.
A feature of the report is the estimate
made Of the prices Of land in the various
counties, which, given in connection with
the general character OF it, should be OF
great advantage to prospective settlers.
A section of special value is devoted to a
summary of the interpretations OF the
State, showing by counties their location,
The tables give total of SS7 incorpola-
tions in the counties of the State, with an
aggregate capital of $134, 1872, 1913. The
amount OF wages paid out by the establish
ments reported aggregated last year S.
74S, 439 on. This is the first time in the
history of the Bureau that an attempt has
been made to statistics as to the industries
in the State outside of Baltimore city.
The subservience of the farming interests
to the mining interests in Western Mary
land are touched upon, the possibilities for
farming development, especially in Garrett
county, being shown. The timber interests
of this county constitute its chief manu-
facture Millions are invested i'll it, and
the county is dotted with sawmills. The
raising of live stock is profitable.
Allegauy, with its coal interests, its
fruit laden mountain sides ana its farm
lands, and Washington and Frederick,
with their increa-ed production of cereals
and also their ore deposits, are all given full
space
The statistcian embraces Cecil, Hartford,
Baltimore, Carroll, Howard and Mont
gomerv counties in what he calls North
Central Maryland, and gives to them
prominent D ace in the report Among
the advantages Of the section named are
the rolling country, with numerous water
courses, which, with good meadow lands,
are conducive to successful dairy farming;
the wheat and other grain lands granite
and marble quarries; slate quarres and
copper mines; canning industries, especially
those of hartford; the fisheries OF Cecil, and
some of the gold mines of Montgomery.
The Eastern Shore geographically CONF
prises nine counties, Cecil, Kent, Queen
Anne's. Caroline Talbot. Dorchester,
Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset, al
though Mr.. Wade includes Cecil III the
North Central counties as we'll He allu!es
to the inlIuN of settlers through the
efforts Of the Mary land bureau of immigra-
ton and of the much happier outlook for
the Eastern Shore within the past few
years The fisheries, embracing the oyster
industries and the shad catching, are
naturally given Importance, to say nothing
of the propagation of the diamond-back
terrapin
The peaches of Kent, one of the foremost
of Maryland's counties in that respect, and
of Queen Anne's, are noted as being tbs
he tat
tician regrets shat the crops have been in
jured through various causes during the
past few years.
Talbot, Worcester, Caroline, Dorchester,
Wicomico aud Somerset are all given space
and their advantages generally described.
Lack of labor is said to be the chief COM
plant OF the farmers of Southern Mary land,
which takes in St Mary's, Charles, Prince
Georges, Calvert, Ann Arundel counties
The chief crop there is tobacco, very little
of which is grown in any other section Of
the state. The table showing inspections
OF tobacco at the State warehouses for l~9S
gives the total net receipts as So, ?lO hogs
heads and the total shipments IS, 1139 hogs
heads. the shipments exceeding the re-
cripts by 252~ hogsheads, owing to the fact
that there wa il demand for great deal
o, common tobacco remaining in the ware
houses for several years past Shipments
of tobacco were made to Bremen Holland,
Hamburg, Antwerp, Northern Europe
France and England, while 56I hogs
heads were for home and coastwise ship
ments.
The report on the packing industry in
MARYLAND shows that the State is rapidly
advancing as a centre for this industry.
There were nearly 100000 cases Of
tomatoes put up in 1898 and $50, $50 cases
OF corn, while the total value of the canned
goods exported from Baltimore was ST.
1876, 76G. The price Of tomatoes for the
season of 1899 has advanced from Sc 80 to
81 per ton. The number of bushels of
oysters inspected during the season of
1872. 80 was 5,ll1,Sli, the amount being
largest in November when the aggregate
was 1896, 252. Of the total amount in