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Title: The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Conant, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915
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Publisher: New York : The Progress of the Empire State Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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here employed in manufactures was multiplied more than
threefold in the same period—to $1,651,210,220, or 17 per
cent of that for the whole country, while the wages paid
amounted to $408,855,652, or nearly 18 per cent of those of
the nation. Such development the commonwealth has achieved in
less than three centuries. In the first, it scattered seeds of
settlement by the sea and beside the rivers, with much trial
and many hardships. With the growth of youthful fiber,
the second brought sterner conflicts, not free from fire and
bloodshed. Its third century was two decades old before
the State showed its rounded form and stalwart sturdiness.
Although proud to be a member of the American Union,
it is worthy in itself alone to be compared with the great

50 PROGRESS OF THE EMPIRE STATE

powers of the earth—not with provinces or principalities
or dependencies. In Europe only seven nations, and in the
western hemisphere only Brazil and Mexico, have more or
even so many inhabitants as New York, and its rate of
increase exceeds that of any one of them.
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