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  new 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  museum 
  

  

  Waterpower 
  by 
  industries 
  in 
  1900. 
  The 
  following 
  tabulation, 
  

   from 
  the 
  Twelfth 
  Census, 
  shows 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  water 
  wheels 
  and 
  

   the 
  power 
  developed 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  in 
  1900 
  : 
  

  

  Number 
  Net 
  

  

  of 
  horse- 
  

   wheels 
  power 
  

  

  Agricultural 
  implements 
  34 
  1,691 
  

  

  Boots 
  and 
  shoes 
  8 
  590 
  

  

  Boxes 
  33 
  920 
  

  

  Brick 
  and 
  tile 
  1 
  50 
  

  

  Carriages 
  and 
  wagons 
  31 
  1,002 
  

  

  Cheese, 
  etc 
  35 
  709 
  

  

  Chemicals 
  24 
  114 
  

  

  Cotton 
  goods 
  45 
  8,524 
  

  

  Dyeing, 
  etc 
  6 
  440 
  

  

  Electrical 
  apparatus 
  2 
  48 
  

  

  Flouring 
  mills, 
  etc 
  . 
  2,131 
  58,384 
  

  

  Foundry 
  136 
  6,273 
  

  

  Furniture 
  56 
  1,834 
  

  

  Hosiery 
  95 
  7,069 
  

  

  Ice 
  1 
  25 
  

  

  Iron 
  and 
  steel 
  8 
  1,150 
  

  

  Leather 
  42 
  1,258 
  

  

  Lime 
  and 
  cement 
  38 
  827 
  

  

  Malt 
  liquors 
  3 
  95 
  

  

  Lumber 
  1,201 
  44,324 
  

  

  Planing 
  mills, 
  etc 
  86 
  2,803 
  

  

  Marble 
  and 
  stone 
  2 
  75 
  

  

  Paper 
  and 
  pulp 
  1,021 
  191,117 
  

  

  Printing 
  61 
  406 
  

  

  Silk 
  15 
  852 
  

  

  Woolen 
  71 
  4,101 
  

  

  Worsteds 
  14 
  3,310 
  

  

  5,200 
  337,991 
  

  

  Other 
  uses 
  30,465 
  

  

  368,456 
  

  

  Estimated 
  electric 
  motors 
  from 
  water 
  power 
  81,544 
  

  

  Total 
  in 
  State 
  450,000 
  

  

  