Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-17
TEXTILE INDUSTRIES.
Wonderful Increase of Output and Wages
In Twelve Years.

Wonderful Increase of Output and Wages
in Twelve Years.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The Census Office
to-day made public a bulletin giving statis-
tics of the textile industries for the United
States as a whole. 1t appears from the ta-
bles presented in this bulletin that the in
crease OF silk manufacture since 1880 has
been the most striking, being 1915 per cent
in the value Of its product; that of the cot
ton manufacture ranking second, being 69. 81
per cent, and that of wool manufacture be-
ing 6Ss per cent. The average increase in
the entire textile industry is Ss.5l per cent.
The relative rank in importance of these in
dustries. however, is reversed. wool manu-
facture in all its branches, including all de-
scriptions of hosiery and knit goods, stand
ing first. with gross products valued at
1881, ,76S, ,524; cotton manufacture second,
with products valued at $267, 81 724, and silk
manufacture third. with products valued as
SS7, 29S 4H. The actual increase in value Of
products has been $40. 515,6ll IN wool. SIS, ,s9l-
GA in cotton, and s46265.4 400 in silk. The
combined industries yielded product in
the present census year worth $693, 04S, 702, as
compared with product in 1850 of $500. 376-
06s, an increase in ten years OF s192, ,67a, ,85l,
which, from any point of vlew,it is stated, is
without parallel in any country.
1t is proper to state In this connection,
says the bulletin, that there we're
24S establishments engaged in dyeing and
finishing textiles separate and arart from
esta blishments which dye and finish their
own products. These establishments had
an invested capital of $40, go 579 employing
20 267 hands and paying $9,7l7,0l1 in wages.
The value added to the product of the tex.
tile factories by these establishments
amounted TO SIS, 900 $50, decrease of So, 1885,
$50, as compared with the sum of $32, ,297, ,420
added value in 1Ss0, this decrease being e6-
planned by very great reduction in the cost
OF dyeing and finishing by their improved
methods equal to fully 25 per cent The fol-
lowing per cent of increases are noted:
Number of establishments, so; capital in
vested, Sl51; number of hands employed
mot inc iuding officers and clerks in cotton
industry SO. 70: amount of wages paid mot
including wages paid officers and clerks in
cotton industry, 647l: cost of materials,
4l.e7; value of product, 1851.
The increase in the amount Of wages paid
from the combined textile industries, says
the bulletin, has been even more marked
than the increase in the value of products,
being 64.7l per cent in the combined indus
tries: Gilt per cent in the wool manufact-
ure; 57.05 per cent in the cotton and lis. l8
per cent in the silk. The total sum of $l62,-
$685. 59S was paid in the combined industries
as wages to 4sS,92 employees, being average
annual earnings for men, women and chill
dren of S349 81 in the wool manufacture as
compared with $s93 80 in lSsO, an increase of
1926 per cent; 1901 10 in the cotton manu-
facture as compared with S243 65 in 1880, an
increase of $3.50 per cent and 1886 85 in the
silk manufacture, as compared with 1921 90
in $780, an increase OF 81. .43 per cent.