ANNUAL REPORT—MANUFACTURES. 
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of much activity. lie has in constant employ 200 to 250 men, 
women and youths, and is shipping the products of their labor 
to all parts of the country. The census credits him with cap¬ 
ital to the amount of $56,000 ; expenditures for material, $10,- 
000; and a product valued at $72,000. He has since made 
important additions and could show larger results. 
The manufacture of straw board for building purposes, of 
which an account was given in the last report, continues to in¬ 
crease. The Beloit factories are annually converting immense 
quantities of straw into board, which, when put up in rolls 
like carpeting, is sent to all parts of the United States and 
even to other countries. From using it as a roofing and siding 
material for house-building, they are now substituting it for 
plaster with very satisfactory results. 
As this is a Wisconsin invention, we feel a special pleasure 
in again calling the attention of our readers to the eminent 
success with which it is being carried on by the Bock Biver 
Paper company. 
Malt and spirituous liquors must not be omitted from this brief 
enumeration of the leading branches of Wisconsin manufacture. 
The amount of highwines manufactured in the state during 
the year 1870 we are unable to arrive at without more labor 
than we are able to give. The amount produced at Milwau¬ 
kee is reported at 914,681 gallons, equal to about 46,000 bar¬ 
rels of rectified whisky—larger by some 5,000 barrels than 
ever before. 
The manufacture of malt liquors steadily increases. In 1870 
there were: 
Capital invested in breweries.$2,283,400 
Expenditures for material. $991, 560 
No. barrels of beer reported. 211,503 
No. barrels of beer not reported*. 12,443 
Value of product. $2,329,572' 
In Milwaukee alone, a city more famous than any other 
in America for the amount manufactured, and the quality of 
its beer, more than a million dollars worth of lager beer was 
* Estimated from total value given. 
