. The historical geography of Detroit. p Meat packing Flour and grist mill Malt liquors Boots and shoes Printing and publishing . . Bread and bakery Ship building $2,499,000 2,409,000 2,050,200 1,SOS,000 1,721,000 1,6) 1,144,000 1,066,000 9S6,000 930,000 739,000 10089 10083 99Practically all. 62 Detroit at this time produced about twenty percent of the manufactured products of the State. Amongthe cities of the country it ranked nineteenth in manu- 57. Tenth Census, Manufactures, 399. 302 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF DETROIT factures and seventeenth in ord
. The historical geography of Detroit. p Meat packing Flour and grist mill Malt liquors Boots and shoes Printing and publishing . . Bread and bakery Ship building $2,499,000 2,409,000 2,050,200 1,SOS,000 1,721,000 1,6) 1,144,000 1,066,000 9S6,000 930,000 739,000 10089 10083 99Practically all. 62 Detroit at this time produced about twenty percent of the manufactured products of the State. Amongthe cities of the country it ranked nineteenth in manu- 57. Tenth Census, Manufactures, 399. 302 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF DETROIT factures and seventeenth in order of population. Thecities producing greater amounts of manufacturedproducts were New York, Philadelphia, Chicago,Brooklyn, Boston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore,San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Newark, Jersey City,Cleveland, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Providence, Louisville,and Lowell.°^ By 1909 Detroit had advanced to the sixth city inrank m the United States in value of output of manu-factures. It stood ninth in rank of population, show-. New YorkC h i LouisClevelandDe+roifPi+tsburgbosfon Michiqati Value of Manufactures of Principal Cities in 1909(Scale of one million dollars) ing that manufacturing had increased much morerapidly than population, and manufacturing had cometo be the chief interest of the city.^^ The value of all manufactured products amountedto nearly $223,000,000. This was about twice thetotal output of the factories of the United States in1810,^ more than fifty per cent of the output of thecountry in 1840, and almost equal to the entire out-put of Michigan in 1889. It was three times the 58. Ibid., p. xxiv. 59. See ranking in 1880, p. 60. Data from Anier. State Papers, Finance^ II, 712. 61. Twelfth Census, Mayiufacturcs, Part II, 985. iS* Oil vvv;: :^i- ., = •: ?.•- / . ^. 1 MANUFACTURING 303 output of the factories of the city in 1899, and eighttimes that of 1880.^- The leading ten products invalue were as follows :^^ MANUFACTURES OF DET
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