Excerpt from Statistics of Manufactures, 1904, 1905: Part IV of the Annual Report for 1906, Pages 245 to 328 Owing to the fact that 1905 was a National Census year, the inquiries upon the schedule, made up at Washington, were somewhat different in form from those customarily used in Massachusetts, particularly in regard to capital and persons employed. As stated in the report for 1904, the object in Massachusetts has been to gather statistics of capital devoted to production; whereas the United States government asked for capital invested, and included in the total a number of miscellaneous items which this Office does not consider a part of the capital that is used to produce goods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.