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dollars ; they employed 17.568 salaried ofticials and 107,921 Avage-eariiers ; the cost of the raw material used was 200,024,000 dollars, and the output was of the value of 315,669,000 dollars. The more important industries of Baltimore (according to the value of output) in 1910 are indicated thus : —

1 Industries i

Capital Dollars

Wage- earners ,

Cost of material

Value of output

1

Number 1

Dollars

Dollars

Men's clothing. . . . ]

19,283,000

18,596

20,672,000

36,369,000

Canning fruit, orts in 1911 was

The leading industry is copper smelting and refining ; others arc petroleum refining, shipbuilding, and the manufacture of cotton duck, but of these industries totals cannot be given.

The State has ample facilities for traffic both by sea and land, having railways with 2,165 miles of line in the State and 495 miles of electric rail- way, while 30 steamboat lines enter the port of Baltimore, which is one of the best ports on the Atlantic coast. The city, since the disastrous fire in February, 1904, is constructing piers, docks and wharves, wid(-.ning streets, constructing a costly sewerage system, improving the water supply, and con- tinuing electric railways. The harbour channel has been deepened to 35 ft. at mean low water. The railway companies have wharves, piers, and Avarehouses at their terminals, with elevators handling of grain, coal, and other merchandise, port in 1911 in foreign trade amounted to clearing, to 1,385,186 tons. The value of

28,382,580 dollars (5,840,037Z.), and of the exports, "94,465,806 dollars (19,439,055^. ). The exports consist of wheat, flour, meat, and other pro- visions, cattle, tobacco, cotton, and dried fruits, many of the products being from Central and Western States.

The construction of a Chesayieake and Delaware ship canal by the Federal Government is progressing. The Inter-coastal commission has recommended its purchase at a cost of 2,500,000 dollars (514,400/'.), and that it be increased to a width of 250 feet on the surface and a depth of 25 feet. It farther recommended that the canal be continued from Xorfolk to North Carolina by the purchase of the existing Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, linking the Elizabeth River near Norfolk with Currituck Sound in North Carolina. This canal is to have a depth of 12 feet. The entire section, from the Delaware to Beaufort, is estimated to be fully completed within four years after construc- tion has been begun. At Locust I'oint, Baltimore, the United States Government will erect a new immigrant station.

British Consul at Baltimore. — G. Fraser.

Books of Reference.

Constitutions of Maryland, 1776, 1851, 1864 and 1867, Published by the Secretary of State.

Maryland Manual. A Compendium, legal, historical, and statistical. By the Secretary of State. Baltimore, annually.

Report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Marjiand for 1908.

Bond (B.W.), Ptate Government in Maryland, 1777-81. Baltimore, 1905.

Browne i"^. H.), Jlaryland. In 'American Commonwealths' Series. Boston, Mass.

E'ljjar (Lady), A Colonial Governor in ^faryland : Horatio Sharpe and his Times, 1753-1773. London. 1912,

Williams (T. J. C), The State of Maryland compiled for the Board of Public Works. Baltimore, 1906.