The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-08-03
City of Kenosha Jumps Into Seventy-eighth
Place Among the Cities Of the
United States.
NOT IN FIRST HUNDRED BEFORE
Prior Censuses Failed to Show Kenosha as One of the
First Hundred in Point of Value of
It's Factory Products

Kenosha ranks seventy-eighth among
the cities of the country in the total
annual value of it's factory products,
according to compilations just made
from the latest United States census of
manufacturers, a report of which
reached Kenosha this morning. The
previous federal census did not show
Kenosha among the first one hundred
cities Of the nation, demonstrating the
big industrial development which the
city has made since the taking of the
last industrial census.
The report is even more promising
from the standpoint of Kenosha by
reason of the fact that the ratio Of
gain in the value of manufactured
products for Kenosha for five years
was 1918 per cent, which compares
most favorably with an average gain
of 1926 per cent for the leading Amer
lean industrial centers, each of which
has a production of $100,OO0,0OO or
more.
Creeps Up on Racine.
The report shows how Kenosha has
been steadily gaining on Racine, the
rival city north of Kenosha. Ten years
ago Racine was far ahead of Kenosha,
being listed as the sixty-ninth city of
the country in this regard. This year
Racine has advanced to sixty-sixth
place, while Kenosha, never listed in
the first hundred in previous years,
has become the seventy-eighth city of
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tured products. Milwaukee is twelfth
in the list; Milwaukee, Racine and Ke-
nosha are the only Wisconsin cities
listed in the first eighty
The report shows that Kenosha has
passed the $10O,0O0,0OO mark, as the
value of the products manufactured in
Kenosha annually is listed as $103,-
725,717. While it is admitted that the
war contracts helped to place Kenosha
far UP in the lists, the record which
the city has maintained since the close
of the war. has demonstrated that the
city is continuing its Industrial devel-
opment
New York Still at the Top.
In point of total value of its factory
products, New York continues to lead
the country, with Chicago, Philadelphia
and Detroit still holding second, third
and fourth positions respectively.
For fifth place Cleveland moves ahead
Of st, Louis. Baltimore jumps from
eleventh to seventh position, moving
with Buffalo ahead of Boston. Other
notable advances in relative standing
made by the more populous centers of
the country are Akron, from twenty
first to thirteenth rank; Omaha from
thirty-ninth to seventeenth rank; Sc
attic from forty-third to twenty-sixth
rank.
Little Cities Show Growth.
The greatest ratio of growth shown
among the larger cities is that of Oak
land, Calf, with 1862 per cent adj
vance. Akron follows closely with
growth of 358 per cent, and Seattle is
next with 351 per cent Smaller cities
make even larger relative gains. That
of Bethlehem, Pa, far surpasses all,
being 2657 per cent. Pontiac, Mich,
shows 59S per cent and Winston Salem,
N. c., 440.5 per cent.
Chicago continues the largest indus
trial producer in the North; San Fran
cisco in the West and Louisville in the
South.
List Is Most Interesting.
The list of the first eighty industrial
cities of the United States is published
below in order that Kenoshans may see
that their city is mo mean city" Com
parsons with other cities of the coun-
try will prove most interesting.
In the following tabulation those
cities having an annual industrial pro-
duction valued at $1OO,O00,000 or more
are ranked in order of the totals shown
and the percentage growth of each il
the five years is also shown:
Annual value Pct. Of