Show Useful se Statistics A good item for the New Year papers to gather would be bethe bethe the amount paid in wages in the mining manufacturing and transportation businesses in and contiguous to this city The TheS S greatest guarantee that any city can have at least any inland city is measured by the sum of the w wages paid in and near that city Could that amount be found in this and neighboring cities it would be easy to draw correct comparisons of the relative strength and td the future prospects of each Most l of the wages r are spent almost as soon as earned but they are spent for needed supplies and the money enters at once into the channels of busi- busi ness ness Again could this be bedone done on every New T Years Year's the figures r would make clear the advance or retrogression of the city They would w uld be most useful statistics L- L |