Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — Indiana Second In Wagon Making. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Second In Wagon Making.

According to a census bulletin just issued, Indiana tanks second among the states of the Union in the iLauufactnfe of carriages and wagons. Its output in 1905, the year for which the manufacturing C3Q9UB was taken, was valued at 115,228, 337. Ohio leads Indiana W? a little less than $1.000,000. New York comes third and Michigan fourth. The great increase in the value of products between the censuses of 1900 and 1905 is shown for Indiana, the gain being $2,667,12 ». Each of eight cities reported products valued at $2,000,000 to over $6,000,000. These cities were Cincinnati, B*. Louis, South Bend, Ind., New York, Chicago, Racine, Columbus and Indi&DapoLs. In the manu facture of family and pleasure car riages Ohio ranked first and Indi second. Indiana produced 178,962 such carriages. One-seventh of all the wagons manufactured in the United States were made in Indiana. The oat put of wagons in the state daring the census year was 92,893. Indiana ana ranked fourth in the manufacture of steam rail cars. The value of this output in 1905 was $24,551301.