Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-14


practically every union organization
in the state
Data collected by the Illinois Man
ufacturers' association indicates that
Illinois has pulled into third place in
the amount of manufactured products.
The value of these products yearly is
about three billion dollars.
Approximately the manufacturing
industries of the state are owned by
20 900 proprietOrs. They are manned
with about 10000 saiaried officers. 1t
takes about $4,000 male clerks to keep
the books and about 10000 female
clerks are employed More than $780,
600 wage earners are required to Op-
crate the plants. The total number
Of people employed is more than 600,-
600. The figures do not include trans
pOrtatiOn and coal mining and a num-
Der Of industries that are often includ-
ed in manufacturing statistics.
1t is said that Illinois vast corn
production is what has put her in the
front rank of manufacturing states
More than 50 different commodities
are produced with corn as the basis
Lumber, iron ore, lead, zinc and other
natural products have made other
states wealthy, but corn has one ad-
vantage over all of them. Lumber and
ore supplies can be used up, but the
production of corn is never exhausted
Figures recently compiled by the
corporation department of the secre-
tary of states office show that SO, 900
corporations have been chartered
since Illinois began licensing such
organizations. The first corporation
was formed Dec. IS, 1916. 1t was the
Bank Of Illinois, located at Shawnee
town, spelled in the act Shawnee
town"
The earliest corporations, for the
most part, were banks and corpora
lions of quasi-public character. The
Bank of Illinois referred to was crea-
ted by the territorial legislature. 1t
is interesting to note that corpora
lions at that time were so rare that
the constitution of 1918 makes no
reference to them. The only provis-
ion relating to them was in the ma
ture of a prohibition. 1t provided that
banks or moneyed institutions, others
than those already authorized by law,
should be established by the legisla-
ture.
Between the adoption of the con-
stitution of 1918 and the constitution
of 1S48 approximately 1900 corpora
lions were created by special acts.
The constitution of 1848 authorized
the creation of corporations by gen
eral law, and prohibited the creation
of corporations by special act.
The first corporation to be created
under general law so far as may be
ascertained from the records on file
in the secretary of the states office,
was the Illinois and Mississippi Tele-
graph company, whose articles were
filed May 2, 1S49 The corporation is
still in existence
OF the $4,000 corporations incorpor-
ated in Illinois, so 900 have been char
tered in the last % years. There are
about 10000 corporations now alive in
Illinois They pay about 100000 in
fees to the secretary of state annually.
The surprising improvement in the
condition of Miguel Vasquez, the
states only leprosy patient, who now
Is in quarantine in the lepersorium
at the Watertown state hospital, Rock
Island, is being watched with interest
by DR.. George A. Zeller, alienist OF
the state board of administration, and /
other physicians.
Vasquez has been treated with
medicine called chaulmoogra oil, OBJ
tanned from India Within the last
few weeks he has shown marked i'm |
proyement, although leprosy is uni
versally believed incurable and in the
advanced stages an improvement is |
considered remarkable.
The patient has been In the ad- /
yanced stages. the disease having
progressed TO such an extent as to
distigure him with growths on the
forehead which resembled horns /
These and other body sores were /
about 10 form ulcers, when the OIL
was applied, They have now prac
tically disappeared