The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-07-23
SOME THINGS WE DO VERY WELL
HERE IN MAINE
Little List of Cur Manufacturing
and the People Employed

The next time some pessimist makes
the remark that Maine doesn't amount
to anything in manufacturing, just
take a long breath and tell him that
the census report for Maine shows
that there are 3546 industrial plants
in the State, owned by 1861 prophet
ors or firm members, employing 8S,476
people, using 1885 horsepower. US
ing $202,259.592 capital and turning
out products worth $176.029,393 an
nually, of which $7S,928, 169 has been
added by manufacture in Maine and
that these products consist of agri-
cultural implements, artificial stone
baskets rattan and willow ware,
backing, cleansing and polishing pre-
parations, boots and shoes and cut
stock and findings, fancy and paper
boxes, bronze and brass goods, bread
and other bakery products, brick, tile,
brooms, brushes, butter, cheese, con-
densed milk, canned and preserved
foods, carriages. wagons and carriage
and wagon material. cars and other
construction for steam and electric
railroads, clothing, oYeralls shirts,
womens clothing, collins, burial cases
and other goods used by undertakers,
confectionery, cooperage copper, tin
and sheet iron vessels and utensils,
cotton goods, cutlery and tools, flour
and meal. machinery, mems furnish
ing goods, furniture and refrigerators,
glucose and starch, hosiery and knit
goods, jewelry. leather goods, leather,
lime, lumber and timber. marble and
stone work, mattresses and spring
beds, models and patterns, musical
instruments, including pianos, organs
and materials, paint and Varnish, pa
per and wood pulp, patent medicines,
compounds and druggists, prepare
tions, printing and publishing ships
and boats. meats, stoves and furnaces,
cigars, wood turning and carving,
wooden. worsted and felt goods. avn
ings, tents and sails. babbitt metal
and solder. paper bags, leather belt
ing and hose, bluing, rag carpets,
children's carriages and sleds, char
coal. chemicals, horse clothing, coffee
and spices, cordage. Irvine. jutc and
linen goods, dyeisg and finishing
products, dyestuffs and extracts, cleo
trical machinery, apparatus and sup
plies, electroplating enamellng ana
japanning. fancy articles, terilIlzers'
files, fireworks. navoring extracts
food preparations. fur goods dressed
furs. galvanizing, cut glass. stained
glass. ornamented glass, glue grease
and tallow, grndstones. hair goods,
hammocks. hand stamps, stencils and
brands. fur-felt. hats, homes and Whet-
stones, iron and steel, kolin and
ground carths, lapidary work, shoe
lasts. malt liquors, looking glass
frames and picture frames, matches.
millinery and lace goods, mineral and
soda waters, oil. oil cloth and llnoIe-
UNI, optical goods, paper goods paving
materials. copper and zinc photo-en-
cravings, electrotype plates, pottery
pulp goods, pumps, sand paper, emery
paper and emery cloth, saws, shoddy'
show cases, silk and silk goods, silver
ware and plated ware, soap, sporting
and athletic goods, steam packing
stereotype plates, surgical appliances
and artificial limbs, toys and games,
typewriters and supplies upholsterins
materials, vault lights and Ventilators
vinegar and cider wall plaster, waste
wire-work, wire rope and cable and
pulled wool
If the pessimist lives until you have
memorized this list and flung it at him
in large bundles. ask him If he has