Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — New England’s Great Industry. [ARTICLE]

New England’s Great Industry.

Shoemaking is a great business in Now England. The latest returns show that in 1890 there was manufactured in New England $167,000,000, Germany $158,000,000, Great Britain $144,000,000, France $110,000,000. The value of boots and shoes produced annually on the ratio of population is for Great Britain $4 per inhabitant, France and Germany $3 each, and for New England S3O per inhabitant.