. The street railway review . irqrr^TjjnrT- iTfrf i»;ni ■■ THE PLANKINTflN II\NK. wages last year amounted to $1,600,000, and material cost-ing $1,366,769 was used in car and locomotive buildingand repairs. B.\NKS. The record of tlie financial management of Milwau-kees banks compares favorably with those of her sistercities. From the first, in 1S39, these important institu-tions had increased to thirteen in 1892. For that year liiiittiiii. WISCONSIN MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE BANK. the deposits were $977,160,024, an increase of$11,000,000 over 1891. The total resources were$42,992,613.
. The street railway review . irqrr^TjjnrT- iTfrf i»;ni ■■ THE PLANKINTflN II\NK. wages last year amounted to $1,600,000, and material cost-ing $1,366,769 was used in car and locomotive buildingand repairs. B.\NKS. The record of tlie financial management of Milwau-kees banks compares favorably with those of her sistercities. From the first, in 1S39, these important institu-tions had increased to thirteen in 1892. For that year liiiittiiii. WISCONSIN MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE BANK. the deposits were $977,160,024, an increase of$11,000,000 over 1891. The total resources were$42,992,613. The banking capital is very largely ownedat home. MANUFACTURING INTERESTS OF MILWAUKEE. In its earlier day Milwaukee was known as one of theleading grain markets of the world. As the current ofthe cereals was gradually diverted through other channels (^kcd ^J\ah/w^J^imr 537 more attention was paid to manufacture, all the essentialsof which are found here. It is a well known fact that amanufacturing establishment producing, say a milliondollars of goods a year, will employ fifty times as manymen as a wholesale house doing an equal amount of busi-ness. Of the groceries wholesaled here fully one-fourthare home-made. In other lines, requiring iron, wood andcoal, raw materials are near at hand in the iron mines ofher own state and Northern Michigan, from whence alsocomes lumber, while coal is imported from the east bycheap water freights, or fr
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