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The military force of Rhode Island is the National Guard, consisting of Cavalry, Artillery, a naval battalion, and Coast Artillery. The total strength in 1911 was 1,559, of whom 110 were commissioned officers.
Production and Industry. -Rhode Island is a manufacturing State. According to the Federal census returns of manufacturing establishments m the State in 1909-10, the capital invested in manufacturing industries amounted to 290,901,000 dollars; the establishments numbered 1,951; their T)roprietors or firm members, 1,721; clerks, &c., 7,382, and wage-earners, 113 538; the materials used in the year were valued at 158,192,000 dollars, and the output at 280,344,000 dollars. The following statistics relate to the more important industries : —
Industries
Capital
Wage- earners
Dollars
Woollen and worsted goods . . 168,866,620
Cotton goods . . . . i 67,678,645
Jewelry I 17,050,490
Foundry and machine work . . : 27,101,221
Silversmith work . . .; P,422,115
Silk and silk t;Oods . . . l 3,495,555
Hosiery a- d knit goods . . 2,878,478
Number
24,924
28,342
9,511
10,93/
2,294
1,085
1.774
Materials used
Output
Dollars 50,118,450 24,356,192 9,626,40 ' 7,612,560 2,574,944 3,151,594 2,414,662
Dollars
74,600,240
50,312,597
20,685.100
20,611,693
6,198,300
4,5^4,431
.'^,865,792
• The dyeing and finishing of textiles with an average of 7, 792 wage-earners and an output of 13,955,700 dollars in 1909, rank fifth compared with other industries of the State. , n , ,
Rhode Island ranks fourth among the States m the production ot cotton goods, third in woollen and worsted goods, sixth in silk an I .silk goods, and and eleventh in hosiery and knit goods.
The manufacture of rubber and elastic goods is also an important industry. At Pawtncket during the close of the eighteenth century were established the first cotton spinning works in the United States. I" 1909 the cotton mills of the State had 2,836,038 spindles, consuming 112,757,027 pounds of cotton annually. -, , ., t i.
Rhode Island has deposits of graphite, talc, lime, and building stone. The mineral output amounted to 1,088,475 dollars in 1911.
Railways.— In 1912 the railways within the State comprised 211 miles of steam railroad and 409 miles of electric railway. The total length of single track, steam and electric, was 915 miles; the net earnings, steam and electric, amounted to 15,016,133-62 dollars. ,r- r^ i ^
There is a British, Italian, Portuguese, and Guatemalan Vice-Oonsui at Providence.
Books of Reference.
Rhode Island Manual. Prepared by the Secretary of State. ^ Providence.
The Reports of the various Departments of State Government. „, . .•
Arnold (S. A.), History of the State of Rhode Island and Providenee Plantations
(1636-1790). New York, 1874. , , , . t^ ., iqk« r?;
EartlHt (J. R.) (Editor), Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, Providence, 1856-65
Field (B.) (Editor), State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the hnd ot the Century. 3 vols. Boston, 1902. -,, • , loo/-
Greene (W. A.), Providence Plantations for 250 Years. Providence, 188b. ^ .
Kirk (William), A Modern Gitv : Providence, Rhode Island, and its Activities.
Palfrei, (J. G.), History of New England. 5 vols. Boston, 166o-1890.
Richman (Ivving B.), Rhode Island: Its Making and Meaning. 1636-1683. 2 vols. New York, 1902.— Rhode Island : a Study in Separation. Boston, 1905-
Staples (W. R.), Annals of the Town of Providence. Providence, I8ii.
