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Show IZ7 serving machines; vacuum machinery; measuring and household United machines. tion an m,anufacture leading types alloys, of domestic $.1. Z60, 405 was Steel and steel castings I billion. net tons, used in the of which 8Z9, 904 of production laundry equipment. of steel used. net tons of.iron and during 1947. Of the balance of 440, 50 I tons, Z89, 361 tons machinery. 167,023 other service numerous average of ZZO, z86 persons totaled per cent, refrigeration_ 1088 such establishments in the were consumed in the amount of I, in the the There by manufacture tons, approximately 66 pumps; and dispensing States, which employed Value added were and cleaners; refrigerators and These castings, same used were Sheet and strip were firms also consumed tons of copper and 34,451 refrigera copper-base 42, 2n tons of aluminum and aluminum-base alloys in the fabrication of their There 5,230 persons products. were 125 such establishments employing in the Western States in 1947. an Value added average of by these firms totaled $26.3 million, approximately 2.4 per cent of that added in the nation. The estimated steel and steel net tons.was as Distribution of firms follows: Domestic castings consumption fabricating these laundry equipment, products was 30,250 in the West California and Oregon one each; laundry and dry-cleaning machinery, California ten and two each in Colorado and Utah; vacuum cleaners, California 49 serving machines, California with California with two firms; one firm; refrigeration machinery, firms, Washington twelve, Oregon six, Arizona four, Montana two and Colorado one; measuring and dispensing pumps, establishments in California; service and household machines, six n. e. c. , |