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STATISTICS OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES.ITKMS—NEW ,!KR8KY. 1800. 1880,Number of establishments reportingCapitalAverage number of employes (aggregate)...Males above 16Females above 15Children....Total wagesOfficers, firm members and clerks-Average numberMales above 10Females above 15Total wagesAll other employee—Average number•Total wages *...Males above 16—average numberTotal wages .„..,•,»,.,Females above 15—average number,,Total wagesChildren—average numberTotal wagesCost of material usedValue of products$240,81)0,078\Htl t MV2*l3/>770811 HI ,007$72,187,108:w,mr>$705,585$35:1.1807177,128H(i,78727,09912,1521105,285,779$2fi4:W3*AH these data are exclusive of « large foluicco factory, which employed un Hvcrragr number ofupwards of a,ooo, including 1,474 femalca, and oruittect from ihr 1 en»us rotum*, iBy.»,f Omitted items not reported separately at the census of 1H80,So far as can be judged from the data available', there werenot lees than ten classified industries reported in 1890, whichwere not included in the 1880 returns for New Jomoy, aggregating631 establishments, with a capital of #25,^54,000; employee,10,625; wages paid, $5,673,400, and a product of $:U,508,000.Making allowance, as far as practicable, for this onuHnion in the1880 census, it would appear that the per cent, incrouflo duringthe decade was as follows: In number of OBtahliBhniontB, 21 percent.; capital, 113 per cent.; product, 80 per cent. ; employes,40 percent; wages paid, 95 per cent. TheHo niton of increasefall short of those estimated by the Census oflice lor the UnitedStates, as above. Under the circumstances, however, suchcalculations are very liable to erroneoun results.Below will be found, under Summary of Statistic of Manufactures,a list of the 26 leading classified imluBtrioa of NewJersey, based on the total output of products, exceeding $4,000,000per industry during the census year 1890, and showing the num-