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 536 UNITED STATES : — INDIANA

in 1919 was 2,752,301,538 dollars. The chief crops are corn (184,072 bushels in 1920), wheat (23,540 bushels), oats, 76,875 bushels, hay, and rye. The area under tobacco in 1920 was 20,000 acres, yielding 18,000,000 pounds, valued at 2,160,000 dollars. Large quantities of tomatoes are grown, besides other vegetables and fruits of all sorts. The stock on January 1, 1921, consisted of 786,000 horses, 710,000 other cattle, 727,000 milch cows, 960,000 sheep, 4,209,000 swine, and 93,000 mules. In 1920 the wool clip yielded 5,306,000 pounds of wool.

The coal-fields of the State have an area of 6,500 square miles. In 1917 the output of coal was 26,539,329 short tons, valued at 52,940,106 dollars ; the output of crude petroleumin 1918 was 877,558 barrels, valued at 2,028,129 dollars, while the value of the natural gas sold was 1,510,404 dollars. The output of sandstone and limestone was valued at 6,529,298 dollars. The pro- duction of Portland cement (1918) was 5,291,851 barrels, valued at 8,149,250 dollars. The clay-working industries are important, yielding bricks, tiles, pipes, pottery, &c, to the value of 10,999,474 dollars in 1917. Mineral springs in the State yielded (1918) water to the value of 179,431 dollars. The total mineral output was valued at 56,926,558 dollars in 1916, and 85,079,370 dollars in 1917.

The manufacturing industries in the State are extensive and various numbering (1914 Census) 8,022 in all, employing 233,270 persons (including proprietors, clerks, and wage-earners), using materials worth 423,857,157 dollars, and turning out products valued at 730,795,000 dollars. Some of the most important industries with their invested capital, their wage-earners, and their output (1909 Census) are given in The Statesman's Year-Book for 1916, p. 520.

Indianapolis is an important centre of the live stock traffic ; and also the largest inter-urban railway traffic in the United States.

Natural facilities for transport are provided by the Ohio and Wabash rivers and by Lake Michigan, while for traffic by land (1917) there are 7,436 miles of steam railway, besides 2,418 miles (1919) 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. In 1915 there were 34 operating railroads.

In 1919, there were 5 savings banks in the State with 35,093 depositors who had to their credit 14,602,000 dollars, being 416"08 dollars to each depositor.

Books of Reference.

The Indiana Year Book. Publish* d annually.

Census of Manufactures, Indiana, 1914. U.S. Census Bulletin, Washington, 1914.

Dunn (J. P.), Indiana. [In American Commonwealth Series. | Boston, Mass, 1905.

Etarey (Logan), History of Indiana. Iudianapolis. 1915.

Hyman and Cottman, Centennial History and Handbook of Indiana. Indianapolis, 1915.

Kettleborough (Charles), Constitution Making in Indiana. Indianapolis, 191C.

Levering (Mrs. J. H.), Historic Indiana. New York, 1909.

Streighlojf (F. D. and F. H.), Indiana, a Social and Economic Survey. Indianapolis 1916.