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PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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system, to the exclusion of neighbourhood industries and hand trades such as custom dress-making, tailoring, carpentering, grist and saw-milling. The census results were as follows : —

Group

United States

I. Food and kindred

products .

•2. Textiles

3. Iron and steel and their products .

4 Lumber and its rcTnanufactures

5. Leather and its

finished pro- ducts.

6. Paper and print-

ing .

7. Liqnors and be-

verages

S. Chemicals and allied products

9. Clay, glass, and stone products.

10. Metals and metal products, other than iron and si eel .

II. Tobacco nianuf. .

12. Vehicles for land

transiJortation .

13. Shii>building, in-

cluding boat building .

14. Railroad repair

shops

15. Miscellaneous in- dustries .

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Capital

Dollars

268,491 18,42s,269,706 216,180 112,675,580,874

Wage- earners.

Average number

6,615,04(3 5,468,383

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55,364 : 1,690,754,345 45,857 i 1,169,872,985

21,695 17,022

17,289 14,430

2,483,932,835 1,741,500,857

3,573,304,015 2,347,444,114

48,533 1,563,659,091 32,493 1,004,061,953

5,728 5,318

659,2.31,312 451,796,131

34,828 I 1,133,617,756

30,803 : 803,662,460

7,347 874,107,693

6,379 659,538,570

11,745 I 2,015,103,561

9,548 1,497,614,315

Cost of materials

16,168 10,773

8,750 5,843

15,822 16,827

6,562 i 6,058 j

1,353 1,097

1,686 1.22!3

15,621

12,506

857,759,719 553,784,982

865,918,595 570,573,139

245,660,484 323,982,501

521.456,520

287,847,438

126,118,489 121,623,700

277,216,183 159,792,332

1,534,429,108

982,484,897

411,575 354,046

1,437,258 1,155,613

1,025,044 867,390

907,514 729,686

309,766 264,459

415,990 351,64)

77,827 68,338

237,988 208,-345

342,827 285,-346

Value of products

Dollars

12,142,790,878 8,500,207,810

3.187,803,080 , 2,306,120,760

1,741,987,395 I 1,244,864,540

I 1,802,105,820 1,192,111,689

714,573,711 514,907,696

669,874,518 480,220,706

451,238,634 309,012,305

186,127,887 139,849,038

867,019,526 604,034,306

183,791,550 123,066,911

Dollars

20,672,051,870 14,793,902,563

248,785 197,692

166,810 159,406

202,719 136,625

40,506

50,754

304.592 247,922

485,845 391,121

891,014,733 632,395,257

177,1^5.621

126,085,608

306,586,675 177,640,767

31,214,358 87,463,179

214,581,311 156,568,161

717,736,053 455,866,8S1

3,937.617,891 2,845,5.55,772

8,0.)4,708,OS4 2,144,604,719

3,163,126,293 2,197,773,117

1,. 082,522,263 1,214,476,055

992,713,322 724,391,050

1,179,285,247 859,814,263

674,311,051 501,253,855

1,480,901,954 1,023,790,759

531,736,831 391,147,449

1,238,251,401 894,282,432

416,695,104 331,111,181

561,768,289 320,62.S,822

73,360,815 82,769,239

437,563,288 323,212,210

1,397,495,537 939,096,640