People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-21
A CENSUS BULLETIN:
The Census Offlce publishes Bulletin
Showing the Increase in Textile Fabric
Manufactures For the Past Decade.

Showing the Increase In Textile Fabric
Manufactures For the Past Decade.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE census Of
fee has made public a bulletin giving
statistics of the textile industries of the
United States as whole.
1t appears from the tables presented
in this bulletin that an increase of silk
manufacture since 1880 has been the
most striking, being 1l2.75 per cent in
value of its product; that of cotton man.
ufacture ranking second, being 1888
per cent, and that of wool manufacture
being $3.50 per cent
The average increase in the entire
textile industry is SS.5, per cent. The
relative rank in Importance of these in
dustries, however, is reversed, wool
manufacture in all its branches, in
Guiding all descriptions of hosiery and
knit goods, standing first, with gross
products valued at 1887, 76S, 524; cotton
manufacture second, with products
valued at S267 1881, 724, and silk manu-
facture third, with products valued at
sS7, POS, 454.
The actual increase in value of prod
ucts has been 81, 71j, Gil in wool: S75.-
S9l, GA in cotton and SAG, 265, 400 in silk.
These combined industries yielded a
product in the present census year worth
1893, O4S, ZOE as compared with product
in 1880 of $500, 1916, O6S, an increase in
ten years of Sl92, 672, 654, which, it is
stated, is without parallel in any coun-
try.
1t is proper to state in this connec-
ton, says the bulletin, that there are
PAS establishments engaged in dyeing
andfinishing textiles separate and apart
from establishments which dye and fin
ish their own products. These estab-
lishments had an invested capital of
$40, go, SO, employing 20, 967 hands, and
paying S9,717,Ol1 in wages.
The value added to the product of the
textile factories by these establish
ments amounted to $4,000, $50, a de-
crease of 50, 1896, $50 as compared with
the sum of SS2, 297, 49O added value in
1880, this decrease being explained by
the very great reduction in the cost of
dyeing and finishing through improved
methods, equal to fully 25 per cent
The following percentage of increases
are noted: Number of establishments.
O.99; capital invested, Sl51; number of
hands employed mot including officers
and clerks in common industry, 80. 70;
amount of wages paid mot including
wages paid officers and clerks in com
mon industry, GAIL; cost of material,
ALI; value of product, 1851.
The increase in the amount of wages
paid for the combined textile industries.
says the bulletin, has been even more
marked than the increase in value of
products, being G471 per cent. in the
combined industries; 81 II per cent. in
the wool manufactures, 1905 per cent
in the cotton and lis. 16 per cent in the
silk.
The total sum of 1852, 965, sos was paid
in the combined industries as wages to
6SS,92l employees, being average annual
earnings for men, women and children
OF SS40.S4, in the wool manufacture, as
compared with S293 SO in 1880, an in
crease of 1926 per cent; SSOl.65 in the
cotton manufacture, as compared with
S243.65 in 1880, an increase of $3.50 per
cent, and 1885, 50 in the silk manufac-
ture, as compared with S291 IS in 1880,
an increase of 80. 43 per cent.