The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-09


cost of raw materials, SIS, 665,532; annual
products, $50 5S5, 445.
Cordage and Establishments, 1C5;
capital, $29, 275, 40; employees, 13,114; wages,
S4,ll3,112; cost of raw materials. $26, 6S2, COG;
annual products, 37,S49,651.
Cotton manufactures = establishments,
1,O51; capital, s467, 240 49, employees, 1902 S61 !;
wages, $S6,6S9 ,752; cost Of raw materials,
SIG. so; annual products, 1888, 19S,619.
Flour and grist mills-Est adjustments IS =
2oS; capital, $21S7 4,104; employees, 37G3;
wages, ST., 7OS, AIS; cost of raw materials,
SAFE, 26,345; annual products. $500, us, 063.
Gas illuminating and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ments, ST.; capital, 1851, OOO5O6; employees,
p, 459; wages, $12, 436, 2S6; cost of raw mate
rails, S2O,6Oo,356; annual products, $75,716,-
$685.
Glass-Establishment 355; capital, $751;
423,SS; employees, 52,S1S; wages, $26,529, 74S;
cost of raw materials, SIG, 731, GO9; annual
products, $56,539,712.
Iron and steel-Est Adjustments, 725; cap
1tal, S5So,041,7 10; employees 226,161; wages,
$122, no. 1913; cost of raw materials, $549 H.
OS2; annual products, $685., 759,0S4.
Leather, tanned, cured and finished-Es-
Establishments, 1896; capital $17S, 977 421; en-
ployes, 52,1O9; wages, So 5S9, 091; cost of raw
materials, SIS, GS,OO4; annual products,
500, 0SS, 1877.
Establishments, $3.50; capital,
sioh6'4OS1; employees, 44,417; wages, $2S, C05,-
4S4; cost of raw ma terials, $1O,512, O42; annual
products, $340, SIS, 466.
Lumber and timber products-Establis
ments, 33,O35; capital $611, GIL 524 employees,
B3, $50; wages, $40, $40, SOL; cost of raw mate
rails, $3l7, 923,54S; annual products, $5e6, $780,,
9S4.
Paper and wood pulp - Establishments,
1853; capital, $167, 5C7, 713; employees, 1856;
wages, $40, 74S, 426; cost of raw material $780,
$50, 256; annual products, $127, 2S6, 1852.
fi,,to ~ ~.
capital invested, $50, 1921 1872; employees, 12,-
1893; wages, S6717,0S7; cost of raw materials,
$l02, S59,3I; annual products, $123, 929, 1884.
Newspaper and periodical printing and
publishing establishments, 1856; capital,
$l92, 49, 0S; employees, 94,6O4; wages $50 SS33
Co1; cost of raw materials, $50, 214, 1904; annual
products, $222, 9S3, 1863.
Ship NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. /, 116; cap
ital, 1852, 7Ol; employees, 46,7S1; wages, ST.,
S39, 1853; cost of raw materials, &c. 4s6, 772; an
nual products, $74,57S,15
Slaughtering and meat packing-Estab-
lshments, 921; capital. $1S9, los, 264; employees,
6S,534; wages, s33. 457 013; cost of raw mate
rails, $685. 5S3,S77; annual products, $7S6, 60S,-
SO.
Wool manufactures-Establis hments, p
1855; capital, 1898 3I4, 405; employees, 245, al ;
wages, So 1898; cost of raw ma terials, $751;
9l, SIC; annual products, S400, O93, 1873.
While we may glory in the fact that
our total manufactured products have
shown an increase between 1890 and
1900 of 32.9 per cent, and the total
wages paid to employees during the
same period has increased 23.S per
cent, the number of manufacturing es-
Establishments 27.3, and the amount of
capital invested 43.7 per cent, yet we
have cause for regret from the fact
that all of our industries have not
shown an increase. Several of the i'm
portant lines of industry have de-
creased, though the decrease is to be
noted in the value of the products in
but very few lines, and those compare
lively unimportant ones. In but five
lines, among which is the manufacture
of wooden goods, is there noted a de-
crease in the amount of capital in
vested, and there has been a decrease
in the amount of wages paid in II lines,
In the manufacture of boots and shoes,
for instance, wages have decreased 2.5
per cent; in the manufacture of car
riages and wagons the amount Of
wages have decreased 81 per cent,
while in both lines there has been an
increase in the value of the manufac-
tured product amounting in boots and
shoes to 1873 per cent, and in car
riages and wagons to 81 per cent. The
greatest number of decreases are shown
in the number of Establishments in the
different lines, a fact that may be cred
tied to the tendency to industrial COM
binations. The number of agricul-
tural implement factories have de-
creased 21.4 per cent, for instance,
while the value of the manufactured
product has increased 24.5 per cent, the
amount of capital invested has in
creased SIS per cent, and the wages
paid show an increase of "a per cent.
Strengthening and meat packing estab-
lishments give another notable in
stance of this percentage of decrease
and increase. In that line the number
of establishments have decreased 17.6
per cent, the capital invested has in
creased 61.9 per cent, number of en-
ployes increased 55.S per cent, the
wages paid increased 37.7 per cent,
and the value of the product increased
61.4 per cent. This is due to the replac-
ing of the local butchers to great ex-
tent by the big packing houses of the
metropolitan cities.
Annual Profits.
To arrive at figures representing
somewhere near the total profits of
our manufacturing industries it is but
necessary to add together the various
items composing the total cost of
manufacture and deducting that from
the value of the product. The items fig
uring in tn cost of production are the
salaries of 1864 salaried officials and
clerks, not enumerated in the wage
earners, amounting to $3.50 ,244,9 SS; the
amount paid wage-earners, amounting
to 1862, ,O10; the miscellaneous ex-