Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-02
Saturday Morning, September 2, 1916.
PROSPERITY.


 Prosperity spells the same way nowadays in state that it does in every other.
 That is not has always been the case.
 The time was when wealth rOtous in one section of the country while mortgages constituted the main assets of the populace of another.
 There was a time when the manufacturing area was prosperous and who titled the fields and browsed their cattle upon the hillsides very poor
 In this good era however suggested above, there are no wealth and poverty to be found Wealth is more evenly distributed the land than before and there is a far greater abundance of it.
 While the shutles are whirring the East threshing machines and the binders are busy the Golden West and the songs of the negro the fields of the South tell of bounes there from natures generous lap
 The anviIs ring of the modest smitly finds it's echo in the throbbng machinery of factories and the miners pick digs wealth from earths hidden receses his tentment and advancement
 No state has been overlooked the general eflux of prosperity.
 There is from every direction demand for produc- tion and production requires which is assured its proper compensation.
 Take state for instance
 In the heart of the country Ohio is located It is peculiarly adapted illustration of this catholicity Of Gods blessings. It is manufacturing state. It is also agricultural state In it oil wells and coal mines and it grows broad forests of timber.
 Recently a census was taken the manufacturies of Ohio just completed by of the Depart men of Commerce This shows for a fve-year period much more than normal advancement.
 The advance is along lines diversified substantial and demonstrating be necessary, that the mercia rank of Ohio high among states resting on solid foundation.
 In what the government officials regard the order of their importance from percentage standpoint the n creases are forth as follows: Salaries 459; saaried employees, S49; wages 299 capital 29; primary horse power 265; value products value added by facture PAP materials, 2SS; wage 14S number of establishments, S4
 In capital invested there the huge total of $677 552OOO marking gain five years of $376S19 OOO or 29 per cent The of materials in jumped 23S per cent, reaching the total of $O2O 7S2OOO The value of the finished products reached the total of $17S2 OOO increase of "A per cent
 Of much is the fact that salaries and jumped 3S5 per cent, the increase running well s1OOOOOOOO and amounting to the total of s424IS9OOO There increase in the number of salaried ployees of than 2l,OOO. The number of lowered around the 5OOOOO mark, the maximum for any month being 534,537
 The steady forward progress of Ohio is gratifying. In it is nothing Of the mushroom variety. It is progress lasting its charactergradua but The story is by no covered in of trade opportunity and employment For with it goes the assurance that ssterhood of offers than Ohio in the way of happiness, security and contentment.
 If such prosperity. such development, is but a Fools Paradise the people of Ohio will convinced They believe the genuine article and that in spite bell ringers and disaster predicors Of any old political party