The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-09-11

| Mills anu machinery, @oO, foO,OSl.
Realty valuation, 81, DAG, 453, OBJ.
Personal, 1910, 997, 015.
Bonded Indebtedness, $416,S00.
Tax rate (19O9,) S1.2O per 81, 000
Manufacturing plants, 16,S67; capital
1884, O97, 1885, rank, ninth; annual output
1856, 944, 0S2; wages of manufacturing
establishments, $86,347,79s; materia
used, 1854, 521, 91S; employees, 1852, 1856.
Agricultural implement factories, SO
capital, S.932, 344; rank in the United
States, fifth.
Betting and hose, seventh.
Bicycle trade, ninth.
Blank book manufacturing, eighth.
Boots and shoes, custom, eighth
manufacturing, eleventh.
Cigar boxes. fourth.
Fancy paper boxes, ninth.
Brass castings, seventh.
Brassware, eighth.
Bakery goods, tenth.
Brick trade, twelfth.
Brooms, eighth.
Food supplies, factories, 1880; CAPT
tai, $40, 754, 096; rank sixteenth; value OF
annual product, $45, 706. 179.
Textiles, factories, $50; capital So,
925, 1888; rank twenty sixth; produce, $12,
$40, IA.
Iron and steel plants, 497; capital,
S29, 1856, 816; rank ninth; value of prod.
uct, $34, OH, 1898.
Lumber manufacturing plants, g.
462; capital, $97, 993, O66: rank second
value of annual product, 500, 241, 21S.
Mote, Wisconsin, rank /, has capital
of 800, 1853, O96, or but 81, 900, 900 in ex-
cess of Michigan).
Tobacco plants, COS; capital, $2,S52,
OBS; rank twelfth; value product, $9,335,
or.
Leather plants, 593; capital, $685.
716; rank eleventh; value of annual
product, $40, 474,S3S.
Paper and printing factories, S97;
capital $12, 456, 474 rank tenth; value of
product $13, 247,S
Liquor and beverages, distilleries and
manufactures, ga; capital, 1885, 23S;
rank fourteenth; value annual product,
So, 775, 45O.
Chemicals, plants, 272; capital, $780,
6O6, 900; rank fifth; annual product,
$2O,O17,746.
Clays, glass and stoneware, plants,
1865; capital, SO, 14s, O77 rank eleventh;
annual product, "a, 325, 72O.
Vehicles, plants, 1893; capital, $40, 49,
O93; rank sixth; annual output, S2s, 1885,
773.
Shipbuilding, plants, 54 capital 49,
S93, 019; rank seventh; annual output,
81, 432, 1O1.
Miscellaneous manufactures, 927
plants; capital, S34,354,516 rank
eleventh; output, $23, O62, 7S1.
Hand trades, plants 6,779; capital,
So, 23l ,512; rank thirteenth; annual out
put, sec, 661, 1913.
Rural free delivery routes 3O7.
Corn crop, acreage 1,0S0,23 bushels
yield, 3S,SSS, 400; value, $14, 1888, $780,
yield per acre, bushels, 36.
Wheat acreage, 1,219,969; bushels,
yield, 9,271, 1854; value, $8,397, SIT; yield
per acre, bushels, 7.8.
Oats, acreage, 917,971; bushels, yield,
33, 1856, $50; value, $s,759,279; yield per
acre, bushels, 1857.
Barley, acreage, 37,S5s; crop, bushels,
904, 800; value, $425, 1850.
Rye acreage, 1890; crop, bushels,
LOAF, 088; value, $499, 703.
Buckwheat, acreage, 22,180; crop,
bushels, 1920; value, $152,22
Potatoes, acreage, III ,453; crop bush
els 1880, 941; value, 81, 324,04
Hay, acreage. 1,339,28s, crop, tons,
1,727, SIT; value, $40, 235, 9S1.
Beet sugar acreage, 1904; tons Of
beets, 205,92 average tons per acre,
s. SO; total cost, 1902, 500; capital invested,
"a, 0l3, TAB; materials used, 1,602, 288.
Bees, swarms, 100, 397; value, $3.50, 469
honey, pounds, 1900, AGO; bee farmers,
10, 1872; value of honey, $3.50, O1s; rank 10.
Chickens, S,033, 531; rank sth; turkeys,
191, 1888; geese, 73,267; ducks, 106, 1899;
value of all poultry, s2,8s5,s
Poultry raised, 4,551, 945; dozens of
eggs, "a, 31s, 410; value, SO, 104, 462; rank,
10th.
Wool, pounds; 1885, 1s; farms re-
porting wool, $4,000; value of wool,
81, 454, 800; rank Sth; feeces shorn, T.,
'34, 22s; rank in sheep, sth.
Angora goat farms, 90.
Number of farms, 203, 261; total
acreage 1861, sos; improved land, H.,