The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-15

Every year sees a development in the
manufacturing interests, and it has
spread toward the west and south
In 1880 the value of the cotton mill
product in this country was 1892 900, 900:
IN 1890 1t had increased to $26S, 0OO, 600.
New York, the greatest of our com.
mercial cities and the leading seaport,
is also the greatest manufacturing
state
In 1880 the wages paid to cotton mill
hands aggregated $40, 100000; ten years
later it had increased to- SEC. 000, 900.
The wooden factories of this country
are mostly located in New York, New
England, Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey.
West Virginia has 1869 hands in her
manufacturing establishments and
turns out $3S, 702, 125 worth of product.
In 1880 the amount of capital invested
in cotton factories was $20S, 200, 900; ten
years later it had risen to $4,000, 600.
Montana has only 1886 persons en-
ployed in factories, these establish
ments turn out a product valued at
$5.5O7, 573.
Mulhau says that the manufactures
of the United States exceed those of
Great Britain in the proportion Of
seven to four.
In 1880 the gross value of the wooden
mills was valued at 1851, 500, 600; ten
years later it had increased to $685.
00O,O OO
In the manufactures of Alabama
there are employed 1881 hands, who
turn out annually $51, 226,605 worth OF
product.
In 1880 there were ia, $50 hands en-
ployed in the cotton mills of the United
States; in 1890 the number had risen to
221, $50.
Inc proportion of the profits of man
ufacture received by the labOrers in
the form of wages has varied from 80
per cent. to 81 per cent, the proportion
being about the same in 1890 as in 1850,
in spite of the enormous increase IN the
value of the product.
Mississippi has only 1851 persons
engaged in manufactures of all kinds,
who make every year product valued
at $18,705, S34.
New Hampshire has SO ,361 mill and
factory hands, whose labOrS produce
every year $50, 77o,549 worth of manu-
featured goods.
North Dakota, though still young,
employs. 1,S47 hands in her factories.
and sends out every year S5,00S, 107
New Mexico has only 944 persons in
her factories, their labor producing ST.
SIG, 1875 worth of manufactured articles
every year.
In manufacturing, Pennsylvania
stands next to New York, employing
$40, 562 hands and sending out $751;
1884, O1 worth of product.
In 1880 the average amount OF capita!
invested in each factory was $275,000, !
while in 1890 the average capital to
each was 1892 900.
Ohio ranks high among the manufac- |
turing states, having 351,54S mill and |
factory hands, who produce every year
S641 6S8, 064 worth of goods.
In 1880 the number of cotton factor
les in this country was 756; in 1890 it [
was 994, nearly half of the increase be-
ng in the southern states.
In 1890 the United States manufac-
.ured II per cent. more iron than did
England while in steel our manufac-
.ure exceeds hers by about 20 per cent.
Virginia is becoming important as
manufacturing state, having 59,59l
manufacturing hands, who make
product valued at $SS, 1863, S24.
The state of Iowa is so far from be-
ng wholly agricultural that 1T has 3d."
IA persons engaged IN ITS IactoTles'
whose annual output is S125, 094,1 S3.
Massachusetts, though small in size,
S large in manufacture, her mill hands
,eing numbered at Asa, 1872, and their
annual output valued at sSSS,16O,4O3
South Carolina has more manufac-
uring hands than would be expected,
laving not less than 24663, who turn
,ut annually $31, 1925, 6S1 worth of pro-
Iuct.
North Carolina has risen rapidly in
he line of manufacturing states. At
resent her factories employ 1924
ands and turns out $40, 375, $50 worth
f product.
In 1880 there were 221,OS7 hands en-
loyed in the wooden mills, an increase
rom 1876, 557 in 1870; the wages had J
isen from $47, 900. 900 in 1880 to $1,000,
90 in 1890. I
The first manufacturing statistics '