Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
INTERESTING FIGURES.

Annual Report of tho Labor CoramissionsR
of Missouri-Labor Statistics, Building
Associations and Crime.
Tie annual report of the Missouri
commissioner of labor, Henry Black
more, will be ready for distribution
soon after New Years. tits volumin-
| Gus document, and contains many in-
teresting facts. The commissioners
tabulates reports from ,473 manufac-
turing esta blishments as follows:
MANUFACTURES AND WAGES.
Average amount of capital invested by each
person in all esta bishments, $I2, O92 output of
all establishments, 1888 1862 average cap
ital, each establishment, S68.S7: average prod
uct SOB 799; greatest number of persons en-
ployed in all establishments. IS, SIS: smallest
number, 4S, 3S9; average number employed, So
os1. VI the average number employed S,264
are males, and their weekly average earnings
are: $50 per cent. earned less than S. 3.47 per
cent. less than g; SCI per cent less than 81:
7.s5 per cent less than s.; eos per cent less
than 50: 1887 per cent. less than $40: 1914 per
cent. less than $I2; go per cent. less than S15
1195 per cent. less than so; 264 per cent. $50
Average number OF females employed, 1857;
1913 per cent earned less than Is per week;
% Is per cent. earned S, but less than S. I7.S
per cent. earned %, but less than g.: $40 per
per cent. earned 81. but less than @: $3.50 per
cent. earned $8, but less than %; 2.93 per cent
earned g. but less than $40; 1.45 per cent.
earned $40, but less than s1s; 1.sI per cent.
earned S12 but less than $751; OBS per cent,
earned SIS, but less than SO; OLE per cent
earned so and over.
Total amount paid for wages, se5. $40, e21,
which Is over Il per cent Of the amount Of the
products Daily average wages for each per-
son, LOO; average annual earnings. s4so1I
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
Mo 0fQ n M nIo--
associations in the state 10 az. Ie6 are dis
ta1buted In o. Counties leaving Is0 in St.
Louis city. missouri is sixth in the number
Of associations and third in assets in compare
son with other states. Assets OF associations
reporting are S33 4 500 03 &11 1O1 So of these
assets are credited to the associations outside
OF st. Louis and $22 ,3O3 446.15 to the associa-
lions in St. Louis. Receipts Of these associa-
lions for the last fiscal year amounted to S15.-
S25,s46 75. The gross receipts of the associa-
lions reporting are 81, 49, 703.12: the net
profit, $7,647,79 Present total number
OF shares loaned on, 1924: free shares,
2S5,27O; all shares 378,545. Total number OF
borrowers. 1871. Average loan to each bor-
rover, 81 ,Se3. Average loan in ST. Louis, s,79S;
average loan outside Of St. Louis, 1927. Aver
age assets to each shareholder, S546
The report gives q synopsis Of sixteen states
having law of supervision over building and
loan associations. The commissioner strongly
recommends such a law for Missouri, and pro-
poses tentatively four plans, with estimates Of
cost for each. He insists that all banking
features should be eliminated, and these as
sociations confined to the purpose Of their in
ception, namely: enabling persons OF limited
means to acquire homes by small monthly pay
ments.
CRIME AND IT'S COST.
The total number of misdemeanors disposed
of in the courts of Missouri in 1893 for which
the counties paid the costs is 10. 7SO costing the
counties $245 SO; 65T cases. 81 O1 per cent
were convicted: ,233 cases, 11.38 per cent,
were acquitted 1877 cases. or .46 per cent, were
continued generally; g cases, or go per cent,
we're qaashed; 2,750 cases, or 2551 per cent,
were nolle pressed. The per capita cost for
the state for misdemeanor costs is 9.1sc;
for some OF the counties: Pettis, 3l.4Sc;
Lafayette, 27.29c; Butler. 27.13c; Greene.
27.04c; Jackson, 25.15c; Jasper, 22.92c: Law
renee, 22.44c; Scott, 2O.4Oc; Pike, 1880; Boil
lfnger, 1880; New Madrid, 1870; St. Louis
City, 75Oc. The commissioner shows that mis-
demeanor costs can be reduced to &c per capi-
ta or 6S5 ,19055 annually, by giving cities of the
first, second and third classes exclusive juris-
dtction over the class OF misdemeanors dis
posed of in St. Louis in the police court, and
by the abolition Of the fee system.
The total number OF felonies disposed of in
1893 for which the state paid the costs is 1921.
and which cost &289, 80, including board of
prisoners, but excluding the cost of taking con-
victs to the penitentiary. Nearly one-third of
the felonies were tried in St Louis city: jack
SON county, second; Greene, third; Jasper
fourth; Buchanan, fifth; Lafayette sixth;
Marion and Vernon, an equal number: then
Saline; then Pettis These ten counties fur
nish 2 100 cases. or s. per cent. plus, OF all the
cases.
The crimes which cost the state more than
SO 900 for each class, and the average cost for
each case in each class, the aggregates being
expressed in dollars, leaving on the cents:
Murder, S72,966 each $3.50; criminal as
sault on women, 81 ,222, each case $155. &c. for
gerry, $13657, each case .26; grand larceny
S48 002, each case $6Z35; burglary and larceny
S25 166, each case S6O57; felonious assault $685.
052, each ease S61.17 robbery, S13,632, each case
t72.12i
The commissioner says each county should
pay its own felony costs, as they do their mis-
demeanor costs. However, if this is too rad
ical he advocates that each county should pay
for the board OF its prisoners pending trial,
which aggregates one-third of all felony cases.