No.                    Capital          Wages          Value
Establishments.   State.    Invested.          Paid.       of Product.

194          Mass.   $4,308,169     $1,939,122     $23,282,775
185          N.Y.     1,720,356        366,426       6,192,002
455          Penn.    2,570,969        334,950       7,852,177
56          N.J.     1,983,746        762,697       8,727,128
61          Wis.     1,299,425        281,412       4,496,729
18          Ill.       534,786        141,096       2,391,380

Her position in the manufacturing of worsted goods is also an all important one:—­

No.                    Capital          Wages          Value
of Mills.    State.       Invested.          Paid.       of Product.

23        Mass.      $6,195,247     $1,870,030     $10,466,016
28        Penn.       4,959,639      1,473,958      10,072,473
11        R.I.        4,567,416      1,222,350       6,177,754

Again we find her at the head of another very important industry, the manufacture of paper.

The five leading states in production are given their relative positions.

No.                    Capital          Wages          Value
of Mills.    State.       Invested.          Paid.       of Product.

96        Mass.     $11,722,046     $2,467,359     $15,188,196
168        N.Y.        6,859,565      1,217,580       8,524,279
60        Ohio        4,804,274        839,231       5,108,194
78        Penn.       4,099,000        752,151       5,355,912
65        Conn.       3,168,931        656,000       4,337,550

In 1880 Massachusetts manufactured 27,638 tons of printing paper, 24,746 tons of writing paper, 10,255 tons of wrapping paper, 945 tons of wall paper, 3,706,010 pounds of colored paper, 255,000 pounds of bank note paper, 878,000 pounds of tissue paper, and 27,607,706 pounds of all other kinds of paper.

She manufactures more shovels than any other state, about 120,000 dozen annually.  Rhode Island comes next with about one-half the quantity, and Ohio stands third, her product being about 7,000 dozen annually.

It also falls to her lot to manufacture more Hay and Straw cutters, about 6,000 annually.  In the manufacture of hard soap Massachusetts falls a little behind some of her sister states, but she comes smilingly to the front with her 16,000,000 pounds of soft soap, about one half of the total production.  New York brings her annual offering of about 5,000 pounds.

The 4,000 boats she annually builds constitute nearly one half of the number built in the United States.

There are 131,426 persons in the United States engaged in the fisheries.

The prominent share of Massachusetts in this industry is seen in the classification of the five leading states.

State.  No. of Capital Value
Persons Invested. of Product. 
Employed.