Seventy  years  ago  she  barely  had  population  enough  to  enter  this  Union — her
industries  were  small,  her  manufactures  primitive,  and  her  agriculture  circum-
scribed and  simple.  Now  she  has  two  millions  of  people.  In  agricultural  prod-
ucts her  wheat  crop  amounted,  in  1880,  to  47,284,852  bushels;  her  com  crop  to
115,482,300  bushels,  her  crop  of  oats  to  15,599,518  bushels,  her  hay  crop  amoanied
to  1,361,083  tons.  She  raised  1,1,35,770  bushels  of  flax  and  nearly  7,000,000  boshela
of  apples,  while  in  all  the  smaller  fruits  her  crop  was  enormous.  The  total  value
of  her  staple  agricultural  products  for  1882  is  $225,000,000.  The  number  of  cattle
in  this  State  in  1881  reached  1,254,655,  the  number  of  horses  587,258,  number  of
swine  2,867,772,  the  number  of  sheep  was  1,11 1,516;  the  wool  product  reached  the
encouraging  quantity  of  4,494,037  pounds.  Tlie  natural  resources  of  this  State  are
also  great,  the  production  of  anthracite  coal  increasing  from  15,662,000  tons  in  1870
to  42,714,764  tons  in  1880.  In  this  industry  alone  there  were  employed  nearly  107,-
000  laborers  with  a  capital  of  more  than  $256,000,000.    The  growth  of  manufac-


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tures  here  has  heen  quite  Burprising  and  rapid.  In  1875  the  number  of  manufac-
taring  establishments  in  this  State  was  16,000,  the  number  of  hands  employed  was
86,402,  the  capital  invested  was  $.16,462,161,  the  wages  paid  were  nearly  $35,500,-
000.  The  cost  of  the  material  was  more  than  $104,000,000,  and  the  value  of  the
products  was  $301,304,271.  In  view  of  this  vast  growth  of  industries,  jt  is  pecu-
liarly fitting  that  we  should  contemplate  carefully,  the  great  enterprise  which  it
representA,  in  all  its  social  and  civil  relations.
