Manufactures.— Outside the city of Saint Louis, the leading manufacturing counties are Jackson, Buchanan, Saint Charles, Marion, Franklin, Greene, Cole, Cape Girardeau, atte, Pike, Rails, Boone and Lafayette. Ac cording to the summary of the United States Census Bureau for 1914, the value of the manu factured products of the State was $637,952,000 and the number of persons engaged in manu facturing, 188,266. Saint Louis is the largest manufacturing centre of the State. The chief manufacturing industries of that city, accord ing to a 1913 report of the State bureau of Labor, are: Next in importance as manufacturing cities are Kansas City and Saint Joseph. The valua tion of the manufactured products of Kansas City in 1912 totaled $71,854,885, including: Bakeries 87,948,699 Bags and bagging 3,227,000 Can and general shop construction 2,100,708 Liquors, malt 4,661.367 Liquors, rectifiers 4,333.041 Clothing (factory products) 2,286,850 Planing mills 2.502.876 Confectionery 2,012,247 Printing and publishing (book and job) 7.916.915 In 1912 the value of products in Saint Jo seph was $81,752,571, principal among which is the packing industry. Here is a partial list of the most important industries: Candy and cmfections $2.834,857 Clothing (factory product) 1378,615 Flouring and grist-mill products 2,659,749 Slaughtering and meat packing 62,438,553 Springfield, Joplin and Hannibal lead in manufacturing among the smaller cities of the State.
The following partial list of factory prod ucts shows the varied character of the manu facturing industry: Cob pipes, pearl buttons, soap, glass, musical instruments, lime, electri cal instruments, spelter, zinc oxide, white lead, drugs, street and railway cars, motor vehicles, rubber goods, flags and banners, books, furni ture, brick, tile, bed springs, stoves, cement, dynamite, coffins, surgical and mathematical in struments, chemicals, dyes, engines, boilers, farm implements, carriages, wagons, stoneware, pottery, paper, paint, clothing, leather goods, millinery, wire, gas, jewelry, confectionery, food preparations, brooms and brushes.
Finances.— In 1915, according to the records of the State auditor, the assessed valuation of all taxableproperty in Missouri was $1,856, 885,145.47. The bonded debt of the State, 1 Jan. 1913, was $3,500,000— bonds issued to erect a new capitol. The rate of taxation in 1915 was two cents on the $100 for the capitol, one cent for the school certificates of indebted ness, five for the public schools and 10 for all other purposes. The bonded debt of the State on 1 Jan. 1918 was $2,384,000. According to the Council of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders the State has a defaulted debt of about $7,000,000, the remnant of the $27,370,000 railroad debt assumed by the State in 1862, after the disastrous era of speculative railroad construction. In 1917 the State revenue
amounted to $15,585,244 and the expenditures to $16,102,946. On 1 Jan. 1918 the treasurer had a balance on hand of $2,991,111.
Basks.— There are 131 national banks in Missouri, according to the official manual of the State for 1915-16, with a total of demand deposits of $124,929,599.90, and over 30,000 de positors. The incorporated State banks number 1,281 and have individual deposits of $140,810, 534.01. There are also 20 private banks and, in the larger cities, 67 trust companies with a combined capital of $465,623,000. There are in Saint Louis 40 banks and trust companies with a total capital and surplus of $57,998,000. In the year of 1872 there were 58 banks in the State with a capital and surplus of $20,196,098, showing that during the last 46 years the num ber of banks and their capital and surplus has increased many times. The total number of banks in the State is 1,499, with a total capital and surplus of $131,906,429.51. Missouri is the only State in the Union which has two Federal Reserve banks, one located at Saint Louis and the other at Kansas City.
Many of the important trunk lines of the United States traverse the State of Missouri and other systems connect with them giving excellent transportation facilities to the northern parts of the State, but there are a few counties of the southern tier without railway. Approximately 30 railroads have their entrance into the Union station of Saint Louis and about 20 into Kansas City's Union station. In addition to these, many electric roads and branch lines have been constructed or are in the process of construction through out the State. The leading trunk lines with eastern branches are the Wabash, the Pennsyl vania, Baltimore and Ohio and the Big Four. Running directly to Chicago are the Illinois Central, Chicago and Alton. Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy, Wabash, Rock Island and the Santa Fe. Feeding the West and Southwest are the Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Wabash, the Missouri. Kansas and Texas, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Frisco and the Rock Island. River transportation, which was neglected for many years following the Civil War, is now being developed and large quantities of cereals and other products are taken from Saint Louis to New Orleans by river and transferred to ocean going liners. The Missouri is open to merchant crafts from Saint Louis to Kansas City. There are 66 railroad systems in the State, with 8,274 miles of main track and 26 electric roads with 928 miles.