Excerpt from The Annual Statistics of Manufactures, Vol. 12: 1897 In the main, the tables contained in this volume present com parisons between the returns of Wm successive years, namely, 1896 and 1897, obtained from identical establishments in each year; the increase or decrease in the different elements in the industries specified, in the later year, being thus measured by means of consecutive returns prepared upon exactly the same basis. In order to permit a comparison of total output in the lead ing industries and in All Industries, for-the Census Year, 1895. 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.