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SECOND GROUP. 



THIRD GROUP. 



FOURTH GROUP. 



VARIATION. BY STATES AND GROUPS. 



These States aggregate the value of $5,336,465,954 in products of manufactures, 

 the grand aggregate iu 1880 being 85,369,579,191 for all the States and Territories 

 of the United States. Now, the eighteen States and one Territory in the group 

 which has the least manufactures produce a value of $676,427,860, or 12.6 per 

 cent, of the total for the United States, a fraction of 1 per cent, for each State. 

 These may well be considered agricultural States. 



The third group includes four States, also essentially agricultural Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota, Iowa, and California in which there is a quite general determina- 

 tion not to remain in the category of one-idea communities in industrial devel- 

 opment. They have $391,585,577 in manufacturing production, or 7.3 per cent, of 

 the grand aggregate for the whole country. 



The second group is rounding into symmetry in industry and realizing the ben- 

 efits of such a status in high prices of lands and farm products, and rapid increase 

 in wealth and culture. This class includes the States north of the Ohio River- 

 Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois and also Northern New England. These 

 seven States return a production of $1,247,046,686, which is 23.2 per cent, of the 

 whole. These may be deemed industrial as well as agricultural. 



But there are seven other States in which the industries are more equally 

 balanced than any other, which make more than half the industrial production 

 of the United States, worth 83,021,405,831, or 56.3 of all. These are found in South- 

 ern New England and the Middle States, and may properly be grouped together. 



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