Mohave County miner., 1916-09-09
PROSPERITY

state that it does in every other That is not has not A always been the case The time when wealth was rotous in one section of the country while mortgages stuted the main assets of the populace of another
 There time when the manufacturing area was prosperous and those who titled the fields and brOwSed their cattle upon the hiLlSides were very poor.
 In this good era however, suggested above there wealth zones and poverty to be found Wealth IS more evenly distributed in the land than before and there is far greater abundance of 1t.
 While the shutes Whirrng in the east threshlng machines and the binders busy the golden west and the songs of the negro the cotton fields of the south tell of bounties there from natures generous lap.
 The anvs ring of the modest smthy finds its echo in the throbbng machinery of factories and the miners pick digs wealth from earths hidden recesses to his content ment and advancement.
 No state has been overlooked in the general effux of prosperity.
 There from every direction demand for production and production requires labor which is assured its proper compensation.
 Take one state for instance.
 In the heart of the country Ohio is located It is pc cuay adapted for illustration of this cathocity of Gods blessings It manufacturing state. It is also agr cultural state. In it oil wells and coal mines and it grows broad forests of timber.
 Recently a census taken of the manufactures of Ohio just completed by the bureau of the depart ment of commerce. This census shows for fveyear period much more than normal advancement
 The advance is along lines diversified and substantial and demonstrating if that be necessary that the ca rank of Oho high among the states resting on solid foundation.
 In what the government officials regard as the order of theirimportance from percentage standpoint the n creases are set forth as follows Salaries 450 saared employees $40; wages, 299 capital 29; primary horse power 265; value of products 2 value added by manu facture 242 materials 28; wage earners 148; number of establishments, 34.
 In capital invested there the huge total of $1 6 552OOO, marking gain five years ago of $376819 0OO or 29 per cent The cost of materials used in manu facture jumped 298 per cent reaching the total of S1 02O7820O0 The value of the finished products reached the total of 000 increase of A per cent
 Of much interest is the fact that salaries and wages jumped 336 per cent theincrease running well $100 O000OO and amounting to the total of 24 89000 There increase in the number of salaried employees of more than 21 0O0 The number of wage eaners lowered around the 5G0OO0 mark the maximum for any month being 534537
 The steady forward progress of Ohio gratifying. In 1t is nothing of the mushroom variety It is progress last ing in its character but The story is by covered in terms of trade opportunity and ployment For with it goes the that none in the siSterhoOd of states offers than Ohio in the way of happiness, security and contentment.
 If such prosperity, such development, is but fools paradise the people of Ohio will not be so convinced They believe it to be the genuine article and that in spite of the alarm bell ringers and disaster predicors of any old po itical party.