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UNITED STATES : — PENNSYLVANIA
20,270,033 dollars. The output of coke was 21,923,935 short tons, valued at 43,053,367 dollars. Pittsburg, having abundant supplies of coal, has become the principal iron-work centre. The value of the total mineral output of Penns)'lvania (excluding pig-iron, coke, and other products from coal) in 1911 was estimated at 414,112,373 dollars.
According to the census of manufactures in 1910, there were in Pennsyl- vania, 27,563 manufacturing establishments, with an aggregate capital amounting to 2,749,005,975 dollars, employing 94,885 salaried officials and 877,543 wage-earners. The salaries in the year amounted to 110,897,242 dollars, and the wages to 455,626,790 dollars. The cost of the raw material used was 1,582,559,988 dollars, and the value of the output was 2,626,742,034 dollars.
Statistics of the more important industries, or groups of industries (ac- cording to the census of manufactures of 1910), are : —
Industries
Capital
Wage- earners
Wages
Cost of material
Value of output
Steel works and rolling
Dollars
Number
Dollars
Dollars
Dollars
mills ....
522,897,623
126,911
85,113,237
329,013,421
500,343,995
Blast furnaces
194,708,463
14,521
9,456,714
142,074,028
168,578,413
Foundry and machine
work ....
283,556,032
86,821
51,306,002
101,010,740
210,746,257
Leather ....
85,516,452
16,532
7,938,107
62,266,361
83,749,869
Textiles ....
243,478,554
139,670
50,939,980
159,900,334
267,840,579
Ry. car works .
31,281,576
7,766
4,819,137
19,002,225
27,509,748
Printing and publishing .
71,452,879
24,696
14,335,047
22,752,749
70,584,179
Slaughtering, &c. .
13,504,379
3,050
1,986,965
44,845,047
51,850,936
Petroleum refining .
38,989,633
2,900
1,861,405
47,440.316
53,088,199
Tobacco, cigars, &c.
27,603,854
33,188
11,619,512
20,713,423
50,161,387
Malt liquors .
94,134,562
7,234
5,452,794
12,610,097
47,712,570
Flour and grist
21,276,534
2,432
1,187,505
38,170,128
44,782,558
Lumber, planing mills, &c.
54,638,401
26,873
13,557,761
27,314,236
57,453,583
Glass ....
58,632,212
23,710
13,436,405
12,633,913
32,817,936
The textile manufactures are chiefly worsted goods, woollens, hosiery, carpets, silk goods, and cotton goods.
Pennsylvania, owing to the abundance of tanning substances, is the largest leather producing State in the Union ; 60 per cent, of the glazed kid of the United States is made in Philadelphia. In 1910 the leather industry employed 16,532 workers, earning a total wage of 7,938,107 dollars. In
1910 there were cotton mills employing 16,293 workers, earning a total of 7,034,407 dollars.
The total v^alue of goods imported into Philadelphia during the year
1911 was 80,959,935 dollars (16,191,987^.) ; of goods exported, 70,527,144 dollars (14,105,428Z.) Six steamship lines traded with the port ; 145 American vessels of 253,432 tons and 831 foreign vessels with 1,890,466 tons entered ; while 83 American vessels with 100,420 tons and 780 foreign vessels with 2,021,628 tons cleared. In 1910 the State contained 11,290 miles of railway, besides 4,210 miles of electric railway track.
British Consul at Philadelphia. — W. Powell. There is also a Vice-Consul.
Books of Reference.
Reports of the various executive departments of the State. Harrisburg. Small's Legislative Handbook and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania, 1911. Harrisburg, Pa.
Trade of the Consular District of Philadelphia. British Foreign Office. Annual.
London.
