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Show uu 81 1 LEAD 1 TIRE INDUSTRY A recent report from the United States census bureau shows that the stato of Ohio leads other states of tho Union in the manufacture of rub-bor rub-bor which plays an important part in the manufacture of automobiles. Tho total valuo. of products for the Industry as a whole, says tho report was $300,993,796 in 1914 of which $109,058,065, or more than ono-third was reported by the stato of Ohio. Massachusetts, Now Jersey and Connecticut Con-necticut in tho order named, were tho next states in Importance. Tires are tho chief product of the rubber industry, the output of these in 1914 being valued at $146,421,569, or 48.6 per cent of tho total value of products prod-ucts for the entire industry. Ohio was tho leading states rn-tho- manufacture of pneumatic automobile tires, reporting 4,723,636 vasings, valued val-ued at $61,723,117, or 58.4 per cent of tho total value for the Untied States, and 4,102,959 inner tubes, valued at $10,052,961, or 50 per cent of tho total value. Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Pennsylva-nia, In tho order named, followed Ohio In Importance in the production of casings, cas-ings, whllo New Jersey, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, Indiana and Pennsylvania were the states next In Importance in the output of inner tubes. Tho production of solid tires for automobiles au-tomobiles and other vehicles alBO is highly centralized in Ohio, which reported re-ported $11,897,710, or 86.6 per cent of the total value of this product In 1914, continues tho report Pennsylvania was tho principal states In the manufacture manu-facture of motorcycle and bicycle tires, whllo Ohio and Indiana were the states noxt In importance. Ohio produced pro-duced 643,419 of such tires, valued at $1,570,244, and Indiana 770,447 tires, valued at $1,293,202. Now Jersey, with' a product valued at $3,207,681, was the leading state in tho manufacture of rubber belting, Ohio being second with $2,154,696, and Massachusetts third with $1,550,705. The samo states, in the order named, led In tho value of rubber hose produced, pro-duced, tho totals boing $6,066,500, $4,-194,676 $4,-194,676 and $2,722,939 respectively. New Jersey reported rubber packing to tho valuo of $1,823,568, this amount being be-ing more than one-half of the total for the United States. Ohio, with $851,807, was next in Importance Im-portance in this branch of the rubber Industry. Ohio was tho leading stato In the output of druggists' and stationers' sundries made of rubber, reporting $2,513,949, or slightly more than one-third one-third of tho total value of this class of products. The report shows that there were 54 1 rubber manufacturing establishments in Ohio In 1914, employing 21,705 wage , earners and producing goods valued i at $109,659,000. The industry more than doubled In Importance in five years, as shown by tho fact that in , 1909 the number of wage earners era-ployed era-ployed in Ohio rubbor establishments was 10,382 and tho total value of products prod-ucts was $53,911,000. That year there were 37 establishments in tho state making rubber goods. Going still farther back, Ohio, the state in which the rubber industry is now so largely centralized, had 27 rubber manufacturing plants in 1904, employing only 4815 men and producing produc-ing manufacturers valued at $15,964,-000. $15,964,-000. oo |
