Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-27
REPORT SHOWS NEED
OF DEEPER RIVER
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according to the aforementioned fig
ures which were compiled by thu
Bureau of Satisfies and Information
of the Pennsylvania Department o.
Internal Affairs at the direction o.
Secretary James f. Woodward ant
forwarded to Col. ]. j. Loving, o.
the United States Engineer Office a.
Baltimore, Md. The United State:
Engineer Office is making pre-
liminary survey of the territory ad'
jacent to the Susquehanna under ar
act of Congress with view to de-
termining the advisability of having
the War Department make the
stream navigable as far as Harris
burg.
Dauphin County Leads
The eight counties which would
contribute directly to the shipping
on the Susquehanna are Cumber-
land, Adams, Dauphin, Franklin
Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York
and the production figures of the
district have developed many sur
prises. Dauphin county leads IN
manufacturing.
The report submitted by Secretary
Woodward to Col. Loving goes into
numerous details concerning the
territory. 1t shows that the eight
counties cover a territory of 5,O9b
square miles and that the popula-
ton of the district is estimated at
1854. In the eight counties there
are 80 towns of more than 1000
population and there are total or
so towns bordering on the Susque-
hanna. In the counties, too, there
are 1854 schools.
Great Industrial Center
In the eight counties which
would be contributory to shipping
on a navigable Susquehanna, there
are 2,222 industrial plants giving
employment to $3.50 persons. The
market value of products from the
plants in 1918, according to figures
spbmitted by the various industries,
amounted to total of 23,997S44.
Dauphin county leads in the pro-
ouctive value of manufactured goods
with total of $103,249,030 and Ian
caster is second with $72,269,963.
The others in order follow: York,
S6S,44O,104; Lebanon, $43,317, 1874; {;
1Eyanklin, $19,005, ,240; Cumberland
tS,SS5,4oO; Adams. So, S6o, 6S9, j.,
pl OudSlSt 4DANPAtAAA
county produced during the year
anthracite coal valued at $3,306,141.
H4,oO2 in Mills Here
IN table showing the number of
productive industries in the eight
counties, Lancaster leads with a
total of 642; York is second with
sos; and Dauphin is third with 3O3.
The others in order are Lebanon,
251; Cumberland, 14S; Franklin,
12O; Adams, III; and Perry, As. In
productive industries in Dauphin
county employment is given to "a
OO2 persons; Lancaster, 1918;
Franklin, 4,534; Cumberland, g.
S94; Adams, 2,140; and Perry, CAT.
There are 1909 persons engaged in
the production of coal in Dauphin
county in addition to those employed
in the class of productive indus
try"
Production in the eight Susque-
hanna counties has been classed
under the heads of: Chemicals and
allied products; clay, glass and stone
products; clothing manufacture;
food and kindred products; leather
and rubber goods; lumber and its
remanufaeture; liquors and bever-
ages; paper an dprinting industries;
textiles; metals and metal products;
mines and quarries; tobacco and its
productsfl. Although it has been
found impossible at this time to de-
termine the exact weight of the
manufactured products in the eight
counties, while the wheat, corn, rye,
TENS of accounting in the many in
dustries, it is estimated that the total
would run into many millions of tons
in a year. Some manufacturers
measure their products by weight,
others by the piece, pairs, barrels,
square and cubic feet and other
methods and because of this accur-
ate figures on weight are impossible.
Great Farm Yields
Agricultural interests in the eight
counties are large and figures Sc
cured from the Department of Agri-
culture show that the value of
wheat, corn, rye, oats, potato and
hay crops alone for the year 1918
was SS4,479,145. There were 7S2,-
sos tons of hay grown in the eight
cuonties, while the wheat, corn, rye,
oats and potato crops totaled 4O,-
621,017 bushels. Lancaster, one of
the river counties, has long been
credited with being the richest agri-
cultural county in the country in pro-
portion to area and would undoubt-
edl prove a big favor in river ship
ping should the Susquehanna, in fu-
ture years, be made navigable.
In value of corn, wheat, rye, oats,
potatoes and hay grown, Lancaster
is ahead of the other counties in
the district, its products returning
$20,492,S18 in 1918. York county's
value was $1S,036,192 and the others
in order follow: Franklin, $10,9S2,-
694; Cumberland, 50, 062 ,018; Adams,
$S,493,9S4; Lebanon, $6,440,166;
Dauphin, $6,321,SO9; Perry, $S,-
750,014.
Lancaster county is rich in to-
bacco, too, and this product of the
farm annually makes a big increase
in the value of the farm products
in the county.
Much Fruit Grown
Four of the counties which would
contribute to river shipping are well
known as fruit counties and Adams
and Franklin are in the heart of the
fruit-growing belt in the east. Hun
dreds of thousands of bushels of ap-
pies and peaches are shipped an
nually from those two counties to
points all over the country and York
and Cumberland counties likewise
contribute largely to this industry,
In the four counties latest figures
show there are 307,230 apple and
474,105 peach trees, all bearing, and
in addition there are 272,745 apple
and $3.50 peach trees which are toe
young to bear.
Exact figures on the apple and
peach production in the four coun.
ties are not available, but some OF
the more prominent fruit growers
are of the opinion that the district