Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-27
JERSEY
WIDE AWAKE.
The Manufacturing Cities and
Towns on NaWgable Water
ways Number ia.

some one sent me a copy OF an
Oklahoma paper the other day con-
tanning an article on the great indus
trial wealth of New Jersey" said an
Elizabeth real estate man who is an
officer in the board of trade. 81 was
reminded by this paper that in the
last six months have seen more
about the industrial advantages of
New Jersey published in the papers
of our state than ever before. The
Oklahoma paper said that Jersey had
walked up but what the editor
meant was that Jersey was wide
awake, because our state has never
been asleep. IL do not think you
need any better proof of this than to
turn to the reporbpof our own state
bureau of statisticsy which shows that
in our little state there are 457
towns now affordfhg the best posi-
BILE facilities. for the establishment
of new industries. OF these, 81
cities, the majority Of which are of
considerable size and located along
the steam trunk lines and in the troll
ley belt, which includes a good part
of the state, will give new Industries
free factory sites. These towns have
held open these Inducements for
some dozen years, and many manu-
factories have already taken advan-
tage of them. / find that there are
in addition to the towns already men
toned 10 towns whose wealthy citi-
zens stand ready to render financial
aid to any and every new industry
that will come to their towns.
can idea of the natural advantages
of the state as a whole may be got, ]
think, from the fact that there are
SO towns in the state at which water
power for factory use may be found.
There are 124 manufacturing cities
and towns in the state located Oh
nayigable waterways, which include
the Hudson river, the Raritan, Rah.
way, Delaware, Passaic and Hacken-
sack rivers, Newark bay, Raritan
bay, Staten Island sound, Kill Won
Kull and New York bay and their
tributaries; besides the Morris canal
and the Delaware and Raritan canal.
We have also "A seaside towns in
which numerous industries are To-
Gated, and "a inland towns now used
to considerable extent as pleasure
and health resorts, which furnish
abundant facilities for industrial
plants. In addition to the many al
ready mentioned, I have in mind SO
towns of considerable Industrial i'm
portance which offer especially good
railroad and trolley facilities and
about which are located our princi-
pal sources of mineral wealth, such
as iron, copper and zinc.
II learned a lot from reading OF
the bureaus last report, and in or
der to get more accurate lnformatioH
Id applied to the chief statistician fol
advance figures from his forthcoming
report. | learned from them that the
state of New Jersey has produced
this year 1,702 different kinds o
manufactured articles, the product Of
its 7,O11 individual factories which
are scattered among the cities and
towns enumerated above.
zone of the most valuable docu.
ments to manufacturers the country
over. | believe, is the Industrial Di-
rectory, published annually by the
state bureau of statistics, which will
within a few months issue its vol
ume for 1906. In this book will he
found the name, location, wealth, ed,
ucational and industrial advantages
of every town in our state. 4
"There seems to be a general pub
lie recognition of the fact that New
Jersey, especially in view of the ex'
ceptional electric and steam traction
facilities of its towns and cities, pos
~sesses advantages second to no othe'
state. l see that some Of u town
are taking steps to boom themselves
Camden is one of them and Fassai'
another. An illustration Of tne rat'
at which pr-towna are growing nov s
may be found from the most Fesen
building report from Passalc, Mh's a