Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-09

Germany is a nation Of many indus.
tries.
Brush kid cannot be made in the
United States.
More than g. 10000 900, 900 cigarette,
are made annually in the United States
Massachusetts, is the leading shoe
manufacturing state in the Union.
Washington. D. c.. lays claim ia
nearly 10000 manufacturing plants.
A quarter of the nations wage earn
ers are women.
American manufacturers produce
about $50, OOO, 900 pounds Of explosives
each year.
Bricks. which in 1918 were quoted at
high point of $25.
More than 100000 n of news
print paper is used yearly by American
newspapers and magazines.
There are more than 10000 grist
| mills in the United States.
New York state led the country in
| production of manufactured goods last
year.
Canada's fur production last year
was more than three and one-half mil
lion pelts.
Five million dollars and II years
were spent in Germany in chemical re-
| search before artificial indigo was per-
fected.
OF the total number of workers in
the United States during 1920. 1861
1913 were males and S,549.399 were
females.
The only diamond mine in the United
States is in Pike county, Arkansas.
Since 1905 more than 5000 stones have
been taken from the mine.
American factories manufactured
$50, ,202 pairs of shoes in 1920, an
increase of IL per cent over the pro-
duction in 1919.
Since 1867, when the United States
paid to Russia some $7.OOO.OO0 for
Alaska. that possession has yielded
more than SSO,OOO,0O0 worth of furs.
Skilled workmen in Germany today
receive 81 a week for the same work
and same amount Of labor which in the
United States costs from $50 to S36.
In 1919 American factories turned
out 40 per cent Of the total manufac-
tured products of the world. From
1914 to 1919 the increase was 1oS per
cent.
German newspapers are being sold
III ! Vidud do NdStt PaPNi At tHNAAb "a
about 100 per cent.
Road workers in the west get the
highest wages of any engaged in sim
liar work throughout the United States
Farm tools valued at 1857 600. 900
were produced in the United states
during the year of 1920.
During the first eight months of last
year Germany was our best customer
for copper cotton and lard.
Almost every known gem is found in
Australia. which is generously sup
piled with mineral deposits.
The new Delaware river bridge will
have the longest single span between
towers of any bridge in the world
1,75O feet.
On the average the cost Of building
is calculated to be divided in a ratio of
so per cent for cost of materials and
40 per cent for labor.
Some English tin mines. operated
since the days of the Caesars. may
have to close down because so man of
the skilled workers are emigrating to
the United States.
Manufacturers of motor car wheels
are having some difficulty in obtaining
hickory to make the 65.0O0,0O0 spokes
they need annually.
Fewer persons were killed on our
railroads during 1919 than in any year
since 1898. and fewer injured than in
any year since 1910.
The federal highway act makes
available TO the states an appropria-
ton of S75,0O0,0OO for the building
of highways.
A natural gas field that the bureau
of mines says has tremendous pro-
duction potenitalities' has been I'M
covered near Munroe, La.
1t is estimated that building con-
struction t~otaling more than two and
one-half billion dollars was completed
in the United States last year.
Figures compiled by a Philadelphia
employment association show that
wages in manual labor in that city have