Again we find her at the head of another very important industry, the
manufacture of paper.

The five leading states in production are given their relative positions.

No. Capital Wages Value
of Mills. State. Invested. Paid. of Product.

96 Mass. $11,722,046 $2,467,359 $15,188,196
168 N.Y. 6,859,565 1,217,580 8,524,279
60 Ohio 4,804,274 839,231 5,108,194
78 Penn. 4,099,000 752,151 5,355,912
65 Conn. 3,168,931 656,000 4,337,550

In 1880 Massachusetts manufactured 27,638 tons of printing paper, 24,746
tons of writing paper, 10,255 tons of wrapping paper, 945 tons of wall
paper, 3,706,010 pounds of colored paper, 255,000 pounds of bank note
paper, 878,000 pounds of tissue paper, and 27,607,706 pounds of all
other kinds of paper.

She manufactures more shovels than any other state, about 120,000 dozen
annually. Rhode Island comes next with about one-half the quantity, and
Ohio stands third, her product being about 7,000 dozen annually.

It also falls to her lot to manufacture more Hay and Straw cutters,
about 6,000 annually. In the manufacture of hard soap Massachusetts
falls a little behind some of her sister states, but she comes smilingly
to the front with her 16,000,000 pounds of soft soap, about one half of
the total production. New York brings her annual offering of about 5,000
pounds.

The 4,000 boats she annually builds constitute nearly one half of the
number built in the United States.

There are 131,426 persons in the United States engaged in the fisheries.

The prominent share of Massachusetts in this industry is seen in the
classification of the five leading states.

State. No. of Capital Value
Persons Invested. of Product.
Employed.

Mass. 20,117 $14,334,450 $8,141,750
Md. 26,008 6,342,443 5,221,715
N.Y. 7,266 2,629,585 4,380,565
Me. 11,071 3,375,994 3,614,178
Vir. 18,864 1,914,119 3,124,444

She has invested:--Over $1,000,000 in the manufacture of Baskets and
Rattan goods; over $1,600,000 in the manufacture of Brick and