The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-27
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NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST
COMPILED BY WALTER J. BALLARD

COMPILED BY WALTER j. BALLARD.
Great Britain is importing more food 'articlcs
and manufactured goods and less raw material
for her industries than hitherto. At tie same
time she is exporting fewer OF both manufactures
and raw material than formerly. This is a double
drain. She needs more food supplies and is fur
nishing less employment for those who earn the
money to pay for them. Foreign rivals are max.
ing hcadway into her markets and cutting down
the sales of her products both NJ home, aud
abroad. Her imports for 1901, exceed her cxf olts
by 5000, ZOO. (Troy rimes).
The extent of the cotton manufacturing indus
try of the United States is indicated by the pre-.
liminary report of the census bureau just made
public. The report shows capital of $iGO $40, III
invested in the 800 establishments in the country
in 1900. The average number of wage carncrs
employed was 291 ,029 ana to them was paid $50
l26,3lO. The cost of materials was $l73,4 800;
3,GG0,Gl3 bales of cotton were consumed at Il
cost of Sl2i,9O5,015 and the value of the products
was S}I2 s0i ,ijj. In 1900 there We're 10,00S ,3j2
spindcs and 4jO,6s2 looms in operation.
The census bureaus preliminary report on the
manufacturing industries of Pennsylvania in 1900
compared with the returns OF the census ten years
ago shows: Number of establishments, 81, ,lSj;
increase 50 per cent Capital, 81, ,5is, Il2 in
crease 81 per cent. Wage earners, average mum.
Der, 733,s3I; increase, % per cent. Total yearly
wages, 1852, go; increase, 2G per cent. Value
OF yearly products, including custom work and
repairing, 81 ,sS5,1Oi ,l3l; increase, IS per cent
Nebraska is not manufacturing state, but the
census bulletin shows quite considerable progress
in that direction in the last decade The eStab-
lShments have increased from 3,01i to 5,4l4--thc
capital invested, from $37 100000 to S72, 900 0G0
the yearly product from S53 O0O 900 to Sl3 OOO 900
Maryland shows the following increases Estab-
lslments, 1,ISj to $3.50; capital. from Sllo000,-
OO0 TO SlG3, 0OO000 yearly product from Sill,
OOO,O 10 S2l3O0O,OOO.
North Carolina give us far higher proport ION
ate result; Establishments. 1907 to 7,22G: capi.
tai, $}2, 900 600 to O000 yearly wages, SG,
800 600 To $l3,S 0l0 yearly product 900
to sos, ,00o,0O0 The Republican protective tariff
is doing "'yeoman service" for North Carolina.
Cotton seed crushed in the United States for
oil extraction in 1900 cost $2S 900 900. but that
SOS, 600 900 was TUNED into So, 900 600, as the
selling values of its various products, an increase
of As per cent. The manufacture provides work
for 20, establishments.
During 1901 the imports Of the four leading
nations of the world We're as follows: Great
Britain, S2,60 1000, coo; Germany $1,i90 000, 600;
France S0i0, 100000; United States, $3.50, 600 600,
The exports for the same nations We're: United
States, 81 i6j, 600; Great Britain, SllOO 0OO,
600; Germany, S,lSj0O0,000; France, $3.50, ,000 900.
Since Alaska became annexed to the United
States the value of the product OF her fisheries
has been over $7OOOO,0OO; furs, S3i, 100000, and
gold yield approximately, Si0,00o,OO0
The per capita cost of municipal government in
Boston, Mass, exceeds that of any other city
in the United States. The heaviest item of per
capita expenditure in Boston is S5,3l for schools
again S304 in the average of ten other cities.
Cuba imported, in the seven months ending
July 81, 1901, S37,0O3OO0 against ,01O for
the same period OF 1900, decrease Of per cent.
She exported in the same month of 1901 Si6,'
GsG 600, against So, ,33s 600 for 1900, increase
of a. per cent. Cuban business is of double value
to us as we need her main products--sugar and
tobacco. In the period above quoted, our pur-
chascS were SIS, 900, increase OF 40 per cent
over 1900, and 30 per cent over 1900 The pros
perty OF Cuba is necessary TO us