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valued at 1,228,835 dollars, while the value of the natural gas sold was 1,192,418 dollars. The output of sandstone and limestone was valued at 4,413,655 dollars. The production of Portland cement (1911) was 7,407,830 barrels, valued at 5,937,241 dollars ; of natural rock cement, 315,823 barrels, valued at 115,471 dollars. Tlie clay-working industries are important, yielding bricks, tiles, pipes, pottery, &c., to the value of 7,000,771 dollars in 1911. Mineral springs in the State yielded (1911) water to the value of 653,641 dollars. The total mineral output was valued at 37,430,187 dollars in 1911.
The manufacturing industries in the State are extensive and various numbering (1909 Census) 7,969 in all, employing 218,263 persons (including proprietors, clerks, and wage-earners), using materials woith 334,375,000 dollars, and turning out products valued at 579,075,000 dollars. Some of the most important industries with their invested capital, their wage-earners, and their out-put (1909 Census) are given as follows : —
Industries
Wage-earners
Capital
Output
Number
Dollars
Dollars
Agricultural implements
4,749
23,008,000
13,670,0(X)
Automobiles, including bodies and
parts
6,797
16,722,000
23,764,000
Bread and other bakery products .
2,505
6,044,000
10,209,000
Brick and tile
3,788
7,455,000
4,719,000
Canning and preserving .
3,406
5,572,000
8,758,000
Carriages and wagons and materials
8,867
29,110,000
21,655,000
Clothing, men's, including shirts .
4,073
4,617,000
8,029,000
Copper, tin, and sheet-iron products
2,121
6,814,000
5,763,000
Electrical luachinery, apparatus, &
supplies
3,073
6,857,000
7,718,000
Flour-mill and grist-mill products .
2,298
15,657,000
40,541,000
Foundry and machine-shop i»roducts
15,809
39,711,000
39,884,000
Fui'niture and refrigerators
11,284
16,537,000
18,456,000
Glass
9,544
13,149,000
11,593,000
Iron and steel, steel works and
rolling mills
12,255
47,781,000
38,652,000
Lumber and timber products .
10,317
19,177,000
23,135,000
Printing and publishing .
0,75ti
11,844,000
14,356,000
Slaughtering and meat packing
4,423
8,058.000
47,289,000
Indianapolis is an important centre of the live stock traffic.
Natural facilities for transport are provided by the Ohio and Wabash rivers and by Lake Michigan, while for traffic by land there are 7,400 miles of steam railway, besides 2,320 miles of electric railway. All the lines from the east to Chicago pass through Indiana, as do other lines connecting east and west, and north and south.
Books of Reference.
The Reports of the various Executive Departments of the State.
Census of Manufactures, Indiana, 1909. U.S. Census Bulletin, Washington, 1909.
Dunn (J. F )> Indiana. [In American Commonwealth Series.] Boston, Mass.
