Industries of New Jersey. . Board of Trade of Newark,so truthfully states the relationsof the city to the country ingeneral and New York in par-ticular that we give an extractfrom it, as follows: There are towns and citiesof far less population that havea more widely extended reputa-tion, from the simple fact thatthey are mainly devoted to onespecialty that fills the eye or thethought. Thus Pittsburg, Pa., isfamed for its iron and steel; FallRiver, Mass., for its cotton;Waterbury, Conn., for its brassgoods; Providence, R. I., forwood screws, and so with manyothers. If Waltham, Mass., isnamed,
Industries of New Jersey. . Board of Trade of Newark,so truthfully states the relationsof the city to the country ingeneral and New York in par-ticular that we give an extractfrom it, as follows: There are towns and citiesof far less population that havea more widely extended reputa-tion, from the simple fact thatthey are mainly devoted to onespecialty that fills the eye or thethought. Thus Pittsburg, Pa., isfamed for its iron and steel; FallRiver, Mass., for its cotton;Waterbury, Conn., for its brassgoods; Providence, R. I., forwood screws, and so with manyothers. If Waltham, Mass., isnamed, the chances are that thelistener will at once revert to itswatch manufactures. With New-ark the case is different. It is ascosmopolitan in its business asNew York is in its has some factories—such asthe Clark Thread Works—thatsingly would make the reputa-tion of an Eastern town, butwhich here, merged into hun-dreds of others, nearly all differ-ing each from the other, do notstand so prominently forth as to. 620 STATEOFNEWJERSEY. individualize the city. Then there is another difficulty, that nearly all the goods made in Newark are soldin New York without any distinctive mark or label to show where they came from, and they no more adver-tise the city than though they were made in Maine or California. Newark has therefore increased, commercially and industrially, by the quietest of all processes, largelyby natural growth. Sons have succeeded fathers or have started on their own account, small beginningshave grown into large fruitions, and one man has brought another. Were the advantages of Newark widelyknown, could capitalists engaged in manufactures clearly comprehend its situation, and would the city in itscorporate capacity and the citizens individually unite in oftering inducements for capital to come here, thereis no apparent reason why Newark should not double its population within the next ten years. Geographi-cally or topographically it has absolutely no
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