Excerpt from The Annual Statistics of Manufactures: 1903 This wide range Of topics has appeared in each report. The returns have been gathered, by mail and special agents, in gradual extension from 1 500 to 6, 000 establishments annually. The executive direction of the work has been in charge of the Chief Clerk, Mr. Frank H. Drown, and I desire to ao knowledge his valuable services. Thanks are also due to Miss Margaret Shea for her assistance in the preparation and tabula tion of the statistical material. 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.