The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-10
IN GET AT OUR WEALTH.
The Gathering OF Manufacturing Sta
tistics TO Begin This Month.

The Gathering Of Manufacturing Sts-
tistics to Begin This Month.
Durine this month 1000 special agents
will be appointed by the census Office to
Gather the statistics with regard to the man.
ufactures.
There is a general schedule for manufact-
rres. but for all the more important indus
tries speciaI schedules have been prepared
Tna questions upon which are calculated TO
hiring ont the mass of information with re-
gard to cost of production, are labor and
wages and profits, Whlch VIII DO Vi sEea'
value and interest.
Monufacturers are assured that their an
s1vers 70 the questions will be held strictly
confidential, and will not be disclosed 10
any unauthorized person whomSoeVer. Nor
will the data be used by the office as the
basis of any system of taxation or license,
or in any way to affect adversely the In
terests of manufacturers, and no publication
will be made in the census reports which
will disclose the names or the operations of
individual establishments.
The general schedule prepared for use in
coIIactine the statistics of manufactures
consists of twelve questions, as follows:
/. Name of corporation, firm or indi-
vidual. ,,.-,
menced operations.
3 Name of business or kind Of goods
manufactured.
4. Capital invested, both owned and bor-
rowed.
This question is subdivided so as to ascer-
tain the value of the land, buildings,
machinery, tools and implements consti-
tuting the plant. and estimated at what the
works would cost IN 1890, if then to be
erected. and the raw materials on hand,
stock in process and finished products on
hand. cash on hand, bills receivable, unset
tied ledger accounts and sundries not in
cluded in any of the foregoing items, con-
shutting the live capital, and the average
annual allowance since June l, 1880, for
depreciation of buildings and machinery.
3 Miscellaneous items, including amount
paid for rent. power and heat; for taxes
for insurance; for repairs, ordinary, of
buildings and machinery, for commissions
and expenses of sales department. for in
terest on cash used in the business, and for
all sundries not reported in any OF the fore
going items.
G. Labor and Wages-This question is for
the purpose of ascertaining the total amount
paid in wages during the year, and the
number of employees of all kinds, together
with the weekly rates of wages paid and
the average number of hands employed at
each rate.
z. The kind and varieties Of materials
used, with cost at the factory using them,
including freight charges.
s. The kinds, quantities and values OF the
goods manufactured, with amounts received
for custom work and repairing.
8. Months in operation during the year,
and whether on full time or three-fourths
the time only, or half time, or one-fourth
time. or idle, accounting for the entire
twelve months.
10. Number of hours in the ordinary day
of labor from May to November and from
November to May.
II. Power used in manufacturing, with
number of boilers, engines, water wheels,
turbine wheels or motors used, as the case
may be.
II. If any colored persons have capital
invested in the establishment, how many
and the amount Of capital, the object being
to note the progress of the African race.