Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-24
HUM OF FACTORIES
Abundant WoRk Now for All
\ who Want 1t.
r1snufscrurers Are Too 6ssv TO
PREPARE Exhibit for the hter-
national Commercial Expo sifIoffs
ACfIViIy\in Iron and Steel.

i ch1ef OF the bureau or statistics, are
about the busiest people il2 the United
States at the present time. Mr. Aus
tin, chief of the bureau, has just re-
turned from visit to the manufactur-
/ ing centers of New England and \ the
middle states, and if their condition Ms
an example of that of the manufacN
/ turers of the country generally, as it
! presumably is, there can be no occa-
/ sion for complaint that mills and men
are lacking employment. Mr.. Austin
visited the cotton, wooden, worsted,
silk, fiber, carpet, print goods rubber,
boot and shoe, hat, pottery and watch
/ and clock manufacturing establish
ments and in no case did he find a lack
| of orders for the manufacturers or of
employment for men and women de-
string employment. On the contrary
the great cotton. wooden, silk and other
textile mills are running on full time
and overtime, while the manufactu-
rers of rubber goods, boots and shoes,
clothing and pottery reported their or
ders far in excess of their capacity to
fill with promptness. Our chief diff
Guilty. said the manager of a great
mandatory of rubber clothing, lis
to get sufficient number of employees
and sufficient machinery to meet our
orders. The crude rubber we can get,
though the importations of that are in
creasing rapidly and the price advanc-
ing because of the increased demand;
but the costly machinery and the skill
ed labor which are to do the work are
not so easily had. We maintain con-
young men and women in the lines of
work required in our factory. and yet
with the constant reduction of our
force by the demands upon it from
other mills of this character, we are
short of hands and unable to keep up
with our orders
Similar statements We're made by the
managers of other manufacturing es-
Establishments. The cotton mills. wooden
mills and silk manufacturing establish |
ments were running at their full ca
pacity, and in some cases over hours, |
while the great boot and shoe manu-
featuring establishments were reported |
weeks behind with their orders, which !
come from all parts of the United |
States and of the world. During the |
last eight months, between S2,O0O.0O0 |
and SO, ,000, 600 worth of boots and shoes, |
the product of American factories, |
have been sent out of the country, the /
total for the eight months being double /
that of the corresponding months of |
1898. of this large expectation of this
single product of our factories the ex
ports to the United Kingdom alone I
were SAT-, ,734, against $263,175 in the |
corresponding months of last year; to
the West Indies, $467,519. against $751;
42O in the corresponding months of last
year; to British Australasia. s392,439,
against sos, ,7S3 in the corresponding
month sof last year: to Mexico, $z06,SS0,
against $66. SIG in the corresponding
months of last year; to Africa, $94.6o5,
against s54. .653 in the corresponding
months of last year. while shipments
were also made to Asia, Oceanica, Cen
tral and South America, as we'll as to
the great Industrial and manufacturing
countries OF France, Germany and the
United Kingdom.
An illustration of the activity of the
manufacturers in other lines is found
in a statement made by DR.. Wilson,
the head of the Philadelphia CONNER
ciaI museums. and also the director of
the export exposition. Our chief diff
Guilty in the preliminary work of the
he said. was in the fact {
that the manufacturers of the country
were 20 busy that many of them could
not find time and the necessary force
of employees with which to prepare ex-
hibits satisfactory to themselves while
in many other cases our requests for
exhibits We're met with the statement
that since they are now months behind
with their orders the display of their
products would merely add to their
temporary embarrassment by bringing
them a still greater excess of orders
over their capacity for production. In
the great iron and steel manufacturing
industries we found that many of the
had from six to eight
orders ahead and that they
were working to their fullest capacity
and unable to increase their product I
without an increase in machinery :
which, of course, cannot be made in a I
i
In the iron and steel industry the {
igures of our exports show that the I
extreme activity of manufacturers eX- V
a1O tn 11n
1ut to that supplied by other parts of I
he world. The expectation of manu- d
actures of iron and steel in the eight g
months ending with August. 1899, c
mount to $6S,OOS,O71 against $52, 925, $