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chine Company, and there is a considerable export 

 business, amounting, in 1919, to about 100 tons, 

 valued at $75,000.^ 



The manufacture of woven wire fence is in a re- 

 markable degree concentrated in Adrian. This is 

 attributed to the circumstance that J. Wallace Page, 

 founder of the Page Steel and Wire Company, lo- 

 cated in Adrian. As has happened in many similar 

 instances, as with the manufacture of paper at Mon- 

 roe, employees of this concern, having received train- 

 ing and experience through their connection there- 

 with, eventually established themselves in business 

 on their own account. In 1921, there were five com- 

 panies manufacturing Avire fencing in this city, whose 

 aggregate output was estimated at 87,500 tons. Of 

 this amount the Peerless Wire Fence Company pro- 

 duced nearly one-half." Adrian is credited with being 

 the principal manufacturer of woven-wire fencing in 

 the world, and its exports of this commodity in 1919 

 were 2,149 tons, valued at $254,336. Exports of 

 wire fencing are sent to South America, north 

 Europe, and Cuba.^ 



Farm machinery is not manufactured in the Upper 

 Peninsula, but the availability of suitable material 

 has led to the manufacture of large quantities of 

 goods closely related to rural requirements. At Es- 

 canaba a factory is engaged in the making of butter 



' Statement by S. C. Case, Ann Arbor Machine Co., and 

 Detroit and World Trade, 83. 



^Statement by The Adrian Wire Fence Co., Inc., April, 

 1021. 



"Detroit and World Trade, Detroit, 1920, 84, 



