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serve them. The textile industry, which in itself is 

 independent of the mines, draws two-thirds of its 

 personnel from the female population, largely wives 

 and daughters of miners. Local agriculture depends 

 for its income on the inhabitants of the mining towns. 

 Construction, trade, and service occupations are 

 almost entirely dependent for their incomes on the 

 local population; so they too are indirectly dependent 

 on the mines. 



The importance of coal to the regional economy 

 is made clear by the fact that coal provided 41 percent 

 of the basic income of the region in 1 940. The sources 

 of this basic income are twofold: production based 

 on local raw material, and manufacture of finished 

 products from imported raw materials. The amount 

 of income attributable to each of these sources is as 

 follows: 1 



1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of In- 

 ternal Affairs, tenth industrial census of the common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg. 1941. 



Value of products from local raw materials: 



Anthracite $192, 539, 500 



Other mining 8, 363, 400 



Agriculture 46, 233, 370 



Forest products 9, 01 9, 500 



Total 256, 1 55, 770 



Value added by manufacture to imported raw 

 materials: 



Metals 66, 721, 300 



Textiles 54, 944, 900 



Food > 48, 448, 800 



Forest products 7, 684, 400 



Other manufactures 35, 397, 900 



Total 213, 179,300 



1 Includes value added by manufacture to food grown in area. 



Population and Employment 



The existence of coal in this area has long been 

 known. The deed by which the Six Nations con- 



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