Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1898 — Indiana a Great State. [ARTICLE]

Indiana a Great State.

Indiana has shown a percentage of increase in her manufactures unequalled for the time by any stiite in the union, says the Logunsport Pharos. In. 1850 the number of employes in factories was 14,(XX), and in 1890 the number had increased 121,000, while if is estimated thattoday there are fully 150,000. Indiana lends in the manufacture of tin-plate, glass, wagons, carriages and plows, but greater than all is her standing in agriculture. Her wealth from this source alone in 1897 exceeded S2S , h(XXJ,tMJ().