The Coolidge examiner., 1935-12-27

Prepared by National Geographic society,"
Washington, d. C.-WNU Service.
n TEW YORK conjures up vi
sion of a great metropolis, a
great state where the for
ested Adirondacks rise above vast
agricultural lands, where the Hud-
son river flows placidly from the
north woods to the sea, and where
the Niagara river spills portion
of it's waters and lures hundreds of
thousands of tourists annually.
But few laymen are aware of the
states economic and industrial fea-
lures.
Nearly One-fifth of all the life in
surance in force in America, both
ordinary and industrial, is held in
New York. Approximately half the
nations imports, measured alike by
tonnage and value, enter the Unit
ed States through the custom
house at the mouth of the Hudson,
and more than half of our total eX-
port tonnage clears through that
port. One seventh of all the net
retail sales in the United States
were made in New York in a recent
years., ,OO0,OOO,O00 out of $4,000
600, 900.
The Empire states role in the
manufacturing realm is particu-
larly interesting one. There are
some 16 industries in which its
products constitute more than one
half of the total output of the en-
tire country and about thirty 9th
ers in which its share of the ma
tion's production is more than a
third.
With the gradual growth of man
ufacturing west of the Alleghenies,
there has long been a falling off in
New York states relative standing
in many industries; but as there
has been a recession of rank in the
making of these wares, there has
been a corresponding expansion in
the fabrication of clothing. This
expansion has been so notable that
it has more than made up for all
the losses in other fields and en-
ables New York still to stand out
as the leading industrial state of
the Union, with about one-seventh
of all the nations manufactured
wares to its credit.
Leads All in Clothing.
There are only seven states in the
Union whose total output of manu-
features of every kind surpasses
clothing alone in the Empires
state. These seven states are Mas
sachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and
California.
In 1929 New York made clothing
at factory prices was valued at ap-
proximately $2,700,000,000. 1t in
cluded three-fourths of the nations
production of wOmen'S apparel and
nearly one-half of the country S
clothes for men.
The Dutch practically began
their colony on the strength of the
fur trade, and the latest census
shows that New York is still active
in marketing furs, accounting for
$22S, 100000 worth of manufactured
| fur goods out of total of S21I,-
100000 for the whole United States.
Practically all of the industries
in which New York holds this sort
of leadership are of the lighter
kind. The scepter for the heavier
industries has largely passed into
the hands of other communities.
Specialization in industry applies
to communities as well as to wares.
Rome calls itself the copper city,
and makes about One-tenth of the
nations output of copperware. Glov-
ersville is pre-eminent in the man
ufacture of gloves, and turns out
more of them than any other COM
munity in the country. Rochester
Is the optical and Photographic
equipment capital of the nation,
producing more than a third OF the
optical goods of the United States
Snd most of its Photographic sup
plies.
Sometimes those who are not
New Workers have been inclined to
complain that the Empire state
seems to get more than its fair
share of benefits, particularly more
than it's share of the cOuntry's in
come. Especially are they inclined
to think this true of the metropolis
itself.
When thus they complain, per,
haps it is because they lose sight OF
the other side of the ledger-the
measure of how much New York
produces for the country.
Pays Huge Sums in Taxes.
If YOU were told that every great
irrigation project of every state in
the West, from Yuma and Yakima
to ShOShone, has been built from
funds supplied to the federal gov
| ernmput by the state of New York