Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-30
MANY THINGS
TO THANK FOR

To THANK fox
Having reached the height of a
PROSPEROUS career which dates from
the incorporation of the first five cit
les of the United States in 1850, New
Jersey has much more to be thankful
for this Thanksgiving time than the
majority of its sister states. There
are only four states in the country
smaller than New Jersey, yet she
possesses the greatest per capita IN
dustrial wealth of all the members
or the Union, as well as d total per
capita wealth which is equalled by
few ii any of the larger states. In
the last five years there has been an
actual increase of more than $1,5O0,-
O0O, 600 in her wealth. In that time
600 new mills and factories have
been established within her borders,
bringing with them $240,00O,O IN
capital, 10000 wage earners, II
adding to the output of the state In
the value of manufactured products
$221,000,0 600, an amount greater
than the individual output OF one
half of the forty-six states of the
Union.
Exceeding one-quarter of the other
states in railroad mileage, and pos
sessed of a greater area of available
mill and factory lands adjacent to
railways and waterways, New Jersey
attracts industries not only o
New York city, but from the south
and west in such considerable num-f
bers as to cause other communities
to take steps to protect their own in
terests.
New Jersey possesses more miles
of trolley line in proportion to her
population and acreage than any OF
her sister states, even Massachusetts.
The state has a total of $50 miles
which bind the most important sec
tons of the state in a continuous
chain of communities. Development
by transportation has brought into
being the home zone with a capacity
of 10000, 600 persons within an hour
of New York city, has established a
public school system second to none,
and has created the demand for
thousands of homes for wage n
Real estate values have scared to
ltilC W llillOSotblC H5uiNo Doi'N
ing s-progressing at unprecedented
rate and the builders in the five
northern counties find upon their
books demands for no less thar
1 5000 homes.
With the extension of tr%ansporta-
ton facilities of all kinds and the
growth of the schoo ! system, the
standards of living have risen. To-
day the wage of New Jersey
+ not only the highest class OF
skilled labor in the east, but they de-
mand and occupy Il better type OF
homes than any group of their class
in other states. New Jersey boasts
nearly half a million school children
and this year the state is building
seventy-one new school houses to ac-
commodate them. In New Jersey
where Communication rates are gener-
ally lower than in any other territory
adjacent to the metropolis and where
the best facilities for reaching New
York exist, there is a total of $685.
000, 900 deposited in the banks. OF
this amount $50, 900 are held at
the savings banks for the working
men. This total, which stands to
the credit of 2,144,143 people, has
increased III per cent. in five years,
giving a per capita bank deposit OF
$155 for the state. The $50, 900, 900
deposited in savings banks are worth
more to the working man in New
Jersey than that many dollars in
New York, because table supplies
and rent are cheaper west of the
Hudson river than in New York,
which fact accounts in part for the
10000 new homes for working men
which New Jersey now requires.
That New Jersey is entitled to her
title of the Garden State" is proved
by the report of the Department of
Agriculture which shows that the
34,650 farms in the state each made
a return last year of more than
$1,000 to the owners, an amount
only seventy odd dollars g less than
the returns per farm reported for
Iowa, the richest agricultural state
in the country. The accessibility of
New Jerseys farms to the large mar
kets, says the report, is responsible
for the big farm returns. To the
earnings of the producers of crops
may be added an annual output of
$1,000, 900 worth Of milk at the
rate of 1,500,0 600 quarts per day.
New Jersey also has fifty-five news
papers with a circulation of 800, 600,
which is considerably in excess of
most of the other states having a
larger population, This is the sum
of New Jerseys prosperity at present,
What it will reach after the compile
ton of the tunnel and terminal facil-
tiles to connect Manhattan Island
with New Jersey, for which $780,