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Excerpt from Census of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1905, Vol. 3: Prepared Under the Direction of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor; Manufactures and Trade
While the statistics of Trade, therefore, as presented in this volume have been comprehensively collected and carefully tabulated, and are not without value as indicating the volume of retail and wholesale trade in Massachusetts, they do-not appear to have fulfilled one of the principal purposes which it is understood prompted the securing Of them. For instance, the total value of goods made in the city of Boston for the Census year was and the total value Of goods sold in the wholesale and retail houses of Boston amounted to an aggregate for Manufactures and Trade of These figures are interesting in themselves, but it must he confessed that the presentation Of them in tabular detail gives no clue to the proportion of goods manufactured in Boston Which found its way to consumers in Massachusetts and the pro portion which was sold beyond her borders; nor is any light shed by these figures upon the extent to which goods sold, either at retail or wholesale here, were the product Of Massachusetts mills and factories, and to how great an extent it was necessary for Massachusetts merchants to import goods made in other States in order to satisfy the demands of the local consumer. 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.
