Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-05-09

Not reported.
Washington, D. C.-The above table
presents in concrete form the essen
tial results of the twelfth cens1s
relative to manufactures, and gives a
: general view of the progress of our
INDUSTRIES. The work of compiling the
manufacturing statistics has but just
reached the stage where the presenta-
ton of accurate facts as contained in
this table are possible, and while there
have of course been some changes since
the date of taking the census yet it
is safe to base the manufacturing fig
ures of the country on these, to which
might be added probably an increase
of ten per cent.
Beginning with the census. of 1850
the government has included in the
tatistics gathered figures relating to
the manufacturing industries. The
table given above does not include
these figures further back than 1870,
but for purposes of comparison we
give a few of them here that the
growth Of the full half century may
be noted. Going back from 1870 to
1860 we find in the latter year but 140,-
433 manufacturing institutions in the
country, and in 1880 there were but
23,025. In 1860 the total capital in
vested in manufacturing establish
ments amounted to $1,000, s55, us; the
total value of wages paid, $3s7s, S74, 966;
the total value of raw material con-
sumed, $1,O31 sos, O92, and the total
manufactured product mounting to a
value of $1,s95, SCI $40. Going back an
other ten years to 1850 we find the
total capital invested at that time was
but 1888, 245 ,351; the total wages paid
$236,755 ,464; the raw materials con-
stunned, $3.50. 1913 1922, and the value of
the manufactured product, 81, O19, 1867
GIG.
Heavy Increases.
Mr.. S. n. D. North, the chief Stats
,tfcian for manufactures, in comment
ing on the remarkable advance in our
manufacturing interests, said:
ct will be observed that, in COMPARE
son with the figures of the census of
1850, there has been an increase in
. capital invested approximating nine
teenfold; in the average number of
wage-earners about five and one-half
. fold; in the amount of wages paid
about tenfold, and in value of prod
ucts about thirteenfold. This is an
unusually remarka BILE showing when
we consider that the population Of
the country has increased in the mean
time but about two and one-quarter-
fold. While these comparisons must
be. made with many reservations. they
nevertheless afford, in all the items
except that of capital invested, an ap-
proximate exhibit of the enormous in
in 70 Of xUh
cured in the United States in the las
half of the nineteenth century. They
are particularly suggestive as an in
dication of the increasing productive
capacity of labor, due chiefly to the
increased effectiveness of machinery
and the largely increased inves tment
products per wage-earner has in
creased from 81 ,O65 in 1850 to So ,451 in
19O0.''
The table given at the head of this
article does not include the small
establishments with an annual value
of products of less than $500. Of these
there are a total of 127,419, with an
. invested capital of S44 .3Ss, O65, employ
ing s55, 12s, to whom is paid So, 122, 126
in wages annually, and turning out an
annual product valued al 500, 724, 643.
The Large Industries.
Public interest naturally centers in
the large industries, and what each
contributes to the grand total of our
manufactured products together with
e the number of wage-earners to whom
they give employment and the amount
of wages paid them. The following
summary gives much of this informa-
ton in condensed form with the in.
dustries arranged in alphabetical or
der:
Agricultural implements-Number of es-
adjustments, rs; capital invested. $751;
707.SS1; wage earners employed, 1852
wages paid, So, 4oO,SS0 cost of raw mate
rails, s4S, 944,62S; value of annual product
$1O1. 907. 42S.
Boots and Observation-Disclosures 1000;
capital. SOL, 7s5. 233; employees. 1892; wages
$50 Ia. SS3; cost CT materials $780, 604 054; an
nual product. $261. 02S, $50.
Carriages and wagons-Estabiishme
1852: capital, 11S,1S7,SSS; employees, 62,540
wages, $29, S14, 911: cost of materials S56 676,
O73:annual product, s121, So, 276.
Cars and general railroad shop construc.
Observation-Disclosures 1896; capital, s119.-
5S0,27S; employees, 1850; wages, s96. o62, S2e
cost of materials. $1OS. SIS. 013; annual prod
uct, $21S, 23S,217-
Dairy products Cheese, butter ard con
densed milk-Est Adjustments, 9,351; capital
SIG, 491, 799; employees, 1880 docs not in
Guide firm members or clerks; wages, Sc,
eoS0; cost of raw materials. $109. 1S9. sol
annual product, S131 1S3, S3S.
Chemical products-Establi shments, ]. 40
capital. S23S, 529 81; employees, 46, T65; wages
S21 799, 25i; cost of raw materials, $124 043 SS7
annual product, 500. 5S2. 1886.
Clay products-Esta b1ishments, 6.422; cap
ital, s147 ,9lS.323; employees, 1o5.6lS; wages
$39 534. GO: cost of raw materials, s.. SIS. $40
annual products 500, 902, 1s4.
Coke-Establishments 2A; capital. sSS,