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UNITED STATES : — PENNSYLVANIA

of its mineral products as to stand almost alone. This is due prin- cipally to the State's leadership in the production of coal. In 1919, 153,785 workers were employed in and about the anthracite coal mines, and 180,830 in ami about the bituminous coal mines. In 1919 the output of anthracite coal was 87,838,024 short tons, and of bituminous coal, 147,085,781 short tons. Other minerals are petroleum, natural gas, iron ore (magnetite and hematite), and pig-iron. Pennsylvania has important quarries, cement works, and brick and tile works. The output of by-product coke in 1919 was 5,747,000 net tons. In 1919 the output of Portland cement was 26,222,000 barrels, value 42,479,640 dollars. Pittsburg, having abundant supplies of coal, has hecome the principal iron-work centre.

According to the census of manufactures in 1918, there were in Pennsyl- vania, 20,593 manufacturing establishments, with i.n aggregate capital amounting to 5,445,676,500 dollars, employing 110,000 salaried officials and 1,835,306 wage-earners. The salaries in the year 1918 amounted to 140,544,100 dollars, and the wages in the year 1919, 2,234,154,400 dollars. The value of the output was 9,374,279,800 dollars.

Statistics of th« more important industries, or groups of industries (ac- cording to the census of manufactures of 1910), are given in The States- man's Year-Book for 1916, p. 600.

The textile manufactures are chiefly worsted goods, woollens, hosiery, carpets, silk goods, and cotton goods.

Pennsylvania, owing to the abundance of tanning substances, is the largest leather producing State in the Union ; 60 per cent, of the glazed kid of the United States is made in Philadelphia. In 1916 the leather industry employed 13,592 workers, earning a total wage of 9,336,100 dollars, the total product being valued at 155,973,800 dollars. In 1916 there were cotton mills employing 5,826 workers, earning a total of 3,193,200 dollars.

The total value of imports at the port of Philadelphia for the year ending June 30, 1920, was 219,167,601 dollars, and of exports 449,691,705 dollars. The steamship lines trading with the port are classified for the year 1919 as follows: — Regular sailings, 25 lines ; occasional sailings, 11 lines ; coastwise, 3 lines ; oil, 7 lines ; and local and inland, 9 lines. Fourteen hundred and forty-seven vessels arrived from foreign ports, with a tonnage of 5,660,666 tons, while 2,057 vessels arrived from coastwise ports, with a tonnage of 3,646,289 tons. Of the vessels arriving from foreign ports, 615 were American. In 1919 Philadelphia exported 430,175 tons of anthracite coal valued at 4,086,662 dollars, and 438,684 tons of bituminous coal valued at 3,076,788 dollars. On Dec. 31, 1918, Pennsylvania contained 12,872 miles of steam railway, and 4,870 miles of electric railway track.

Statistics on September 1, 1920, of banks and banking institutions are : —

Mutual Savings Banks State Banks Trust Companies National Banks.

Total

No.

10 241 330 801

Amount of Deposits

1,432

Dollars

292,074,777

288,100,699

1,018,811,269

1,894, 793,000

3,493,788,745

Total Assets

Dollars

314,741,274

352,115,061

1,461,395,890

2,496,905,000

4,625,157,225

Deposit Accounts

544,753

864,509

1,866,056

2,614,809

5,890,127

These figures do not include 2,342 Building and Loan Associations with 835,998 shareholders and assets of 400,823,586 dollars.