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Show po - " r C ' ! $ n rr '" y "' ! fcu?j::du5t:j2S. i W. E. Curtis In Chicago Record-Herald. The recent census groups the Industries Indus-tries cf the country accordlrs to their natural- relationships. The largest group Is composed of the various food products, what we eat; the second largest larg-est Is textiles, what we wear; the third Is lumber and other things manufactured manufac-tured from wood; the fourth is made up of the almost Innumerable articles of Iron and steel;. the fifth Is comprised of the products made from other metals; met-als; the sixth represents the diffusion of knowledge by means of paper and the printing press; the seventh embraces em-braces everything that Is made from the hides of animals, such as footwear, harness and saddlery; the eighth is composed of drugs and chemicals, and the ninth the last that exceeds 500,-000,000 500,-000,000 In value of Its product Includes vehicles for land - transportation, cars, carriages and wagons and other things that go on wheels. -: The four great classes vary and cross each other at several points because some articles require more capital and less labor and take more trouble to sell and to buy than others, so that a comparison com-parison is Interesting and curious. Taking Ta-king first the total value of the products, prod-ucts, the mightiest Industries we have In the United States and that means the world they rank as follows: - ' Product. ; i ' V ' ' Value. What we eat .......2,277.702,01 What we wear ... 1,637,4M,44 The wood we use..........'.,... i,(M)6,679 The iron and steel we use 793,450,908 A- comparison of the number of establishments es-tablishments and the amount of capital engaged in the several industries is as follows: . Establishments. Capital. Food products. 61, 3' C . f 940,&9,838 Lumber .. 47.079 ' 946,116,515 Textiles 30.048 ' 1,166,604,068 Iron and steel 13,899 128,978,078 . From the standpoint of number of persons employed and . the amount of wages paid the comparison is as follows: fol-lows: , Employees. An'l Wages. Textiles 1,074,412 $$41,734,899 Iron and steel 783,796 3,&75.4!9 Lumber 678,063 : 212,201,786 Food products .... 365,541 . 129,910,070 The cost of the raw material consumed con-sumed in producing the value above given Is almost Inverse to the cost of labor; for food products come first with $1,839,256,143; iron and steel second, sec-ond, with $987,198,370; textiles, $895,984,-79, $895,984,-79, and lumb"- $561,601,302. Included among the food products are meats of all kinds, breadstuffs, dairy products, coffee, tea, sugar, spices, fish, preserved fruits and vegetables, confectionery and everything in- the way of food that requires labor to prepare pre-pare It for the market. Wheat and corn are not included, but M6ur and cornmeal are. , The iron and Bteel group includes locomotives, lo-comotives, machinery of all description, descrip-tion, tools and agricultural implements. The lumber group In addition to sawmill saw-mill and planing mill products, includes in-cludes willowware, baskets, packing cases, showcases, woodenware of all kinds, telegraph poles, railroad ties, fence material, wooden Stock for cars, wagons and carriages, charcoal, cooperage, coop-erage, coffins, matches, picture frames and every conceivable article made of wood. , It will be noticed that the lumber lum-ber industry adds a greater percentage of value to the raw material by the process of manufacture than any of the other three products with which It is compared, and represents 8 per cent of the entire value of the total manufactures manufac-tures In the United States. |