The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-24
N. {. INDUSTRIES
STILL IN LEAD
Value of Products Increase
145 Per Cent in
Five Years
FACTORY CAPITAL
ALMOST DOUBLED

Greatest Development In Southern
States - Northern States Lose Lum-
Der Importance Vermont Develops
BOSTON. Aug. 2I-New England 5
continued supremacy in the industrial
field is clearly evidenced in the special re-
port just made public by Boston Cham
Der of Commerce as the result of care
full study of the situation by the bureau
of commercial and industrial affairs and
the bureau of information and investiga-
ton of the organization.
The report shows:
From 1911 to 1919 the value of New
England products increased from S2.92G.
Ga, 900 to S7.1S5. 636000, or 14J per cent.
In the value added by manufacture the
increase in percentage was even more-a
gain of 1J4 per cent being recorded in the
same period.
In this five-vear period there was an
increase of p per cent in the number of
persons engageds in manufacture and of
20 per cent in primary horse power. ..s
New England factories almost doubled
their capital hhveep 1913 apll 1919
Sontdern New England Between 1910
and 1920 gained more rapidly in popuia-
tion than the country as whole. MasSa-
chuSetts held her own in population and
stands today sixth of the rs states Is
against seventh of the - in 1920, a cen
fury ago.
Massachusetts. in the five years from
/ 1914 to 1919. gained in her percentage Of
the total product of the country in tex
! tiles, rubber shoes, confectionery. printing
and publishing. tanning and curing Of
leather and in many other lines. .~
/ New England runs more autos for every
, hundred people than the average of the
country and has the highest percentage of
surfaced roads.
1 Rhode Island which few years ago
was at a standStill in the investment of
capital and i'm its value of outnut came
back between 1914 and 1910 with eXcep-
tional increases. well exceeding the aver
age for the country.
/ Connecticut made a gain between
1910 and 1920 of almost - per cent in
population and nearly eaualed the record
Of Rhode Island in its increase in value
of products.
In northern New England there has
i been a consistent but slower increase in
the value of products. partly due to the
! fact that lumber supplies are not a great
as formerly, although Maine and New
Hampshire are still leaders in tho pro
duction of pulp for paper and stand high
in the cutting of white pine. spruce. birch
and balsam.
i In Vermont. the chief industry has al
!, ways been marble and stone work. II
this country there has been Il steady de
cline in the past 10 years in the number
employed and in the use Of horsepower
Il War construction created relatively littl,
i demand for stone as compared to thai
} for brick. concrete and steel owing to tn,
, embargo on public building projects anC
{ the general inactivity in the building field
{ which has materially affected Vermont
through its chief industry
But Verm0nters are finding new field,
for enterprises in old trades and in II
years have increased the production %
condensed and evaporated milk from
1882, 666 pounds to IS. S37. 0TS. and o
cream from 4,5O2, 100 to 1861 $50. Tn,
: amount of condensed milk was more thar
doubled between 1914 and 1910.