Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

Chemical Manufacture, Census Bulletin No. 286, which relates wholly to the manufacture of chemicals, shows that there are 1,349 establishments devoted to that industry in the United States. The capital invested, including buildings and machinery, is <85,486,856. This investment gives employment to 29,500 persons, whose aggregate of -wages in the year of 1880 amounted to < 11,820,728. The total value of all materials used was <77,344,281, and of products <117.407,054. Manufactured manures formed the principal product, which was valued at <19,921,400, and common hard soaps come next, being <18,299,350.

Decline of Breadstuff* Exports. The advance statement of the Bureau of Statistics of exports of domestic breadstuffs from the various customs districts of the United States during the month of May makes a poor exhibit as compared with the corresponding month of 1881. The total values of exports for Mav, 1882, are $10,107,415, against $19,804,618 in 1881. The total values for five months ending May 31 of the present year were $55,509,617, against $91,375,239 for the corresponding period last year. The totals for the eleven months ending May 31 were $167,653,532, the amount for the eleven months ending May 31, 1881, being $244,955,413. Production of Gulil and Silver. The Secretary of the Treasury recently transmitted to Congress the report of the Director of the Mint upon the production of gold and silver in the United States in 1881. The total product of gold for the year was $34,700,000, of silver, $43,000,000. Colorado takes the first place among the producing States, with a yield of more than $20,000,000. California follows witli a yield of nearly $19,000,000, and Nevada, which at one time ranked first, is now third, with a product of less than $9,000,000. The Tide of Imiuigration. During the month of May there arrived in the customs districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, Passamaquoddy, Philadelphia and San Francisco 141,035 immigrants. Of this total number of immigrants there arrived from England and Wales, 13,404; Ireland, 19,747; Scotland, 3.015; Austria, 4,390; Belgium, 100; Denmark, 2,700; France, 645; Germany, 41,747; Hungary, 648; Italy, 5,141; Netherlands, 1,947; Norway,’ 7,161; Russia, 1,986; Poland, 1,138; Sweden, 19,372; Switzerland, 1,849; Dominion of Canada, 10,622: China, 4,861; and from all other countries, 664. The total number of immigrants arrived in the custom districts named from the principal foreign countries for the eleven months ended May 31, 1882, as compared with the same period of the previous year, was as follows : Countries. 1882. 1881. England and Wales-77,137 57,841 Ireland 66,086 61,796 Scotland. 16,666 12,628 Am-tria 17.897 15.606 Germany. .226,810 175,301 Norway. 23,386 17,404 Sweden 52,984 39,661 Dominion of Canada 84,559 110,875 China 26,710 7,443 All other countries 93,419 64,596 T0ta15.....685,634 563,151