120 WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. 



Mississippi, six hundred and fifty; Minnesota, Michigan, Wis 

 consin, Arkansas, each five hundred and fifty to five hundred 

 and seventy-five; Nebraska, six hundred; North Carolina, four 

 hundred and sixty; Virginia and Pennsylvania, each four hun 

 dred; South Carolina, three hundred and twenty-five; New 

 York, two hundred and seventy-three; California, two hundred 

 and fifty; Louisiana, two hundred and ten; Oregon, one hun 

 dred and seventy-five; Washington Territory, (under jurisdic 

 tion of Oregon,) fifty -two. Vermont, West Virginia, Maryland, 

 Florida, New Jersey, Colorado, Massachusetts, Wyoming Terri 

 tory, Maine, Dakota, New Hampshire, Canada, Montana, Del 

 aware, Idaho, Nevada, and Connecticut, make the grand total 

 at the present time, not less than a million and a half. Com 

 plete statistics of each State, or of the whole membership, are 

 not given to the public, for obvious reasons. 



It will be seen that the South and the South-west are the 

 strongest in proportion to their population. But at the present 

 moment the Granges are multiplying in the Eastern States with 

 great rapidity. North and South are linked by the Grange 

 into an industrial and fraternal unity; and are already proving 

 the benefits of cooperation in commercial exchanges. 



The &quot;Granges of the second growth,&quot; Missouri, Michigan 

 and Wisconsin, have especially devoted themselves to the pro 

 motion of business enterprises; have been careful and econom 

 ical, and have &quot;held aloof from politics.&quot; In Missouri, how 

 ever, so many Grangers found themselves in the legislature, 

 that it was proposed to organize a Legislative Grange, while 

 Wisconsin, under a Granger Governor, carried her legislative 

 war upon the railroads to a successful termination. 



The Patrons have invested their capital as follows: In 

 Grange banks; in direct trade unions; in elevators and ware 

 houses; in grist-mills; in pork-packing houses; in bag facto 

 ries and brick yards; in blacksmith shops, machine and 

 implement works; in broom factories; in cotton-gins, and 

 cotton-yarn factories, in the South; in fruit-canning establish 

 ments; in transportation enterprises by rail, ship, and boat; in 

 homestead associations, cooperative land companies, immigra 

 tion associations and insurance companies. Not less than 

 $18,000,000 is thus invested. The estimate of savings through 

 cooperation is $100 per head for Jour hundred thousand active 

 Grangers. 



