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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  The 
  preceding 
  tabulations 
  show 
  that 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  the 
  total 
  

   capital 
  invested 
  in 
  manufacturing 
  in 
  1900 
  was 
  11,651,210,220, 
  

   and 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  manufactured 
  product 
  was 
  $2,175,- 
  

   726,900. 
  

  

  In 
  Connecticut 
  the 
  total 
  capital 
  invested 
  in 
  manufacturing 
  in 
  

   1900 
  was 
  $314,696,736, 
  and 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  manufactured 
  

   product 
  was 
  $352,824,106. 
  If 
  Connecticut 
  had 
  the 
  same 
  area 
  as 
  

   New 
  York, 
  with 
  proportionate 
  manufacturing, 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  

   annual 
  manufactured 
  product 
  in 
  Connecticut 
  would 
  be 
  over 
  

   $3,500,000,000, 
  or 
  about 
  one 
  and 
  one 
  half 
  times 
  as 
  great 
  as 
  that 
  

   of 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  In 
  Massachusetts 
  the 
  total 
  capital 
  invested 
  in 
  manufacturing 
  

   in 
  1900 
  was 
  $823,264,287, 
  and 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  manufac- 
  

   tured 
  product 
  was 
  $1,035,198,989. 
  If 
  Massachusetts 
  had 
  the 
  

   same 
  area 
  as 
  New 
  York, 
  with 
  proportionate 
  manufacturing, 
  the 
  

   value 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  manufactured 
  product 
  in 
  Massachusetts 
  

   would 
  be 
  over 
  $6,000,000,000, 
  or 
  roundly, 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  great 
  as 
  

   that 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  In 
  Rhode 
  Island 
  the 
  total 
  capital 
  invested 
  in 
  manufacturing 
  in 
  

   1900 
  was 
  $183,784,587, 
  and 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  manufactured 
  

   product 
  was 
  $184,074,378. 
  If 
  Rhode 
  Island 
  had 
  the 
  same/area 
  as 
  

   New 
  York, 
  with 
  proportionate 
  manufacturing, 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  

   annual 
  manufactured 
  product 
  would 
  be 
  $7,362,975,120, 
  or 
  about 
  

   three 
  and 
  one 
  half 
  times 
  as 
  great 
  as 
  that 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  As 
  to 
  why 
  this 
  is 
  so, 
  as 
  regards 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  Massachusetts 
  

   the 
  census 
  report 
  furnishes 
  a 
  decisive 
  answer 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  

   language: 
  

  

  The 
  principal 
  advantage 
  which 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  Massachusetts 
  

   possesses 
  is 
  its 
  water 
  power. 
  * 
  * 
  * 
  The 
  power 
  of 
  the 
  Con- 
  

   necticut 
  river 
  at 
  Holyoke 
  and 
  at 
  Turners 
  Falls, 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  

   Montague, 
  utilized 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  immense 
  dams 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  per- 
  

   manent 
  construction, 
  and 
  by 
  a 
  system 
  of 
  canals, 
  affords 
  in 
  each 
  

   place 
  a 
  succession 
  of 
  mill 
  sites 
  along 
  the 
  entire 
  water 
  frontage. 
  

   The 
  Deerfield, 
  Millers, 
  Chicopee 
  and 
  Westfield 
  rivers, 
  tributaries 
  

   of 
  the 
  Connecticut, 
  are 
  all 
  noteworthy 
  power-producing 
  streams. 
  

   At 
  Lowell 
  and 
  Lawrence, 
  upon 
  the 
  Merrimac, 
  the 
  possession 
  of 
  

   similar 
  advantages 
  led 
  to 
  the 
  selection 
  of 
  these 
  places 
  for 
  the 
  

   installation 
  of 
  the 
  factory 
  system 
  in 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  textiles. 
  

   At 
  Fall 
  River 
  the 
  power 
  furnished 
  from 
  Watuppa 
  pond 
  has 
  been 
  

  

  