. The Street railway journal . nd jobbing is extensive and c(jnstantlygrowing and it is estimated tliat the volume of the hard-ware business reaches $13,000,000 per annum, exclusiveof business done by iron and steel houses. In the manufacture of .steam railroad freight carsand street railway cars St. Louis has no rival inthe West and probably does the largest of anysingle city in America, measured by output in number ofcars. This is due largely to the importance of ,St. Louisas a hardvxood lumber market which gives unusual facili-ties to car builders. Among other lines of
. The Street railway journal . nd jobbing is extensive and c(jnstantlygrowing and it is estimated tliat the volume of the hard-ware business reaches $13,000,000 per annum, exclusiveof business done by iron and steel houses. In the manufacture of .steam railroad freight carsand street railway cars St. Louis has no rival inthe West and probably does the largest of anysingle city in America, measured by output in number ofcars. This is due largely to the importance of ,St. Louisas a hardvxood lumber market which gives unusual facili-ties to car builders. Among other lines of manufacturing and jobbingbusiness in which vSt. Louis takes a leading position maybe mentioned dry goods, both wholesale and retail, bootsand shoes, the annual trade in which is said to amount toover $30,000,000, clothing, hats and caps, furniture,groceries, crackers, shot and white lead. •Street- Railway Traffic • now from the more or less indirect influencesbearing upon .street railway prosperity as found in the. EADS BRIDGE AND THE LEVEES, dustry in which St. Louis stands first, second or third,among American cities, that only a few can here be .specified. In the manufacture of tobacco St. Louis is probablywithout a rival. It is said that there are about 9000people employed in its tobacco factories at high rates ofwages, and the annual sales exceed $30,000,000. Thelargest tobacco factory in the world, that of the Leggatt-Myers Company, is now nearing completion and will havea capacity of 2,000,000 lbs. a year. The brewery in-terests of St. Louis are very large and the city also con-tains the largest establishment in the world devoted to thisindustry. The total output of beer in 1895 was 60,823,844gals., for which 2,124,126 bushels of barley were the manufacture of chemicals St. Louis is said tostand first among American cities and in the wholesale drugand proprietary medicine business, second only to New-York. The woodenware and hardware business bot
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