Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-12-16
The Garden States Wealth and
Manufactured Products Run
Into the Billions
New Jerseys Wealth So 43,032,27S
Its Manufactured Products VAL
ued at S1,4O6,633,A14 Annually

When establishing a factory, think
of New Jersey" might be the slogan
applied to the new booklet on Indus
trial Opportunities in New Jersey
just issued by the State Department
of Conservation and Development.
Interesting facts illustrated by
maps, photographs and graphs, made
up in an unusually attractive manner,
show that the state holds an enviable
position as an industrial community
and possesses advantages for manu-
featuring difficult to surpass. Accord
ing to statistics quoted in the pamph-
let, New Jerseys estimated wealth
totals nearly five billion seven hun
dred fifty million dollars, while it's
yearly output of manufactured pro-
ducts is valued at one billion four
hundred million.
On a basis of land area the state
ranks first in railroad mileage and in
total value of agricultural products.
On a similar basis it stands third in
population, total value of manufac-
tured and mineral products, improved
highway mileage and in wealth, and
fourth in public schools and electric
road mileage. New Jersey carries two
and one-half times as much invested
capital per square mile as New York,
the leading industrial state in total
value, and twenty-three and one-half
times as much as the entire country.
The state ranks first intotal value of
manufactured products in eight ar
%ticles, second in twelve, third in thir-
teen and fourth in fifteen.
The presentation of these facts and
comparisons is made for the purpose
of exhibiting New Jerseys unequalled
advantages for many kinds of indus
tries. The state promises on a basis
of achievement in stating that two
thirds of New Jerseys population of
3,155, 800 persons are concentrated
upon less than ten per cent of its area
and in six Of the twenty-one counties
the department emphasizes the fact
that, while the substantial quality of
the states attractions and u
is shown by it's increase in population
of PA per cent in ten years, this
progress has not been uniform, but
has been confined largely to restricted
areas.
Outside the highly developed indus
trial areas, centering in Jersey City
and Newark, Camden and Trenton,
whose advantages are too evident to
need advertisement, there are many
TOWNS which offer most Of tho attrao-
tions Of the large cities as well as
cheap land, lower taxes, and more
agreeable living conditions. Here in
ducements are offered to new enter
prises based upon the states own
metals, earths, woods, and waters, or
upon facilities for fabrication and dis
tribution. On a unique map at the end
of the booklet GA towns of this char
acter are indicated.
The advantages of location, trans
port, labor, and housing to be found
in the smaller cities and towns have
not been appreciated or exploited in
any systematic way, although the ten
dency of large industries to establish
their W centers or to become domi-
nant in small organized communities
is noted.
An alphabetical list of cities and
towns of over 500 inhabitants given in
the booklet shows that there are 357
such communities in the state. The
population, according to the 1920 CEN
sus, and the county in which the town
is situated, is stated in each case.