The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-26
MANUF ACQUIRES
OF MINNESOTA
Complete Statistics From the
Census Bureau.
a WONDROUS GROWTH
Summary Of the States Leading
Eleven Industries.
FLOUR AND LUMBER BUSINESS
Mathematical Denomination of Min
nesOta's Dominant Ponition
in the Union.

Washington, Feb. 26.-Director Merriam
to-day gave out the completed census of
the manufactures of Minnesota for the
census year 1900. Twenty-seven cities
and towns in the state were withdrawn
from the enumerators and their manufac-
turing statistics collected by special
lures" when used herein, refers only to
these cities and towns.
The report shows $165, 832,246 invested
in manufactures and mechanical indus
tries in the lila establishments re-
ported for the state. This sum represents
the value of lands, buildings, machinery,
tools and implements and the live CAPT.
tai, but does not include the capital
stock Of any manufacturing corporation
within the state The value of products
is returned at $262,655,S S1, to produce
which involved outlay of 1854 ,424 for
salaries of official clerks, etc.. $35, 4S4, 1926
expenses, including rent, taxes, etc., and
$173, 5,615 for materials used, mill sup
plies, freight and fuel.
Manufacturing Profits.
It Is pointed out that the difference
between the aggregate of these sums and
value of products Is not indicative of the
profits in Minnesota manufacturing dur
| ing the census year. The census takes no
! notice of the cost of selling goods, OF
| interest on capital invested or losses in
| CURED in business, or of depreciation in
plant The value of product given is the
value obtained at the shop factory.
! The value of Minnesota products, $780,
! 655 1881, is the gross value and not the
net or true value The value of materials
purchased in partly manufactured form
| was $72, 341 ,746. The difference is the net
or true value and represents the increase
| in the value of raw materials resulting
from the various processes of manufac-
| ture.
| Minnesota manufacturing statistics are
presented in nine comprehensive tabular
statements. The entire bulletin covers
| twenty three close1rjj printed pages.
Table i refers to the steady growth In
manufacturing in Minnesota during the
| last fifty years. TIL population during
that time increased from SOFT to i, TAI 1886,
while the average number Of wage earners
in manufacturing establishments In
creased from 60 to 1924, embracing in
1
compared with l per cent in 1850. The
bulletin says that the best indication of
! the Importance of the wage-earning class
| in Minnesota is afforded by the greatest
| number employed during the census year,
which was 113,509, or SIS per cent OF the
total population. The greatest absolute
! Increase in value Of products, $115, 968, 2S0,
is shown for the decade ending in $780,
Wonderful Development Explained.
AS explaining the wonderful develop
ment OF Minnesota manufactures the bull
| letin says: 49,
| It is due in part to it's native forests Of
pine and to its fertile valleys for the growing
| of grain, to it's water power. to cheap trans
portation by way Of the Great Lakes, to the
early construction of railroads connecting
| the state with the agricultural sections of the
west and southwest and centers of popula-
| ton of the east and south, to its geographical!
position and to it's corporation laws.
Of the 1907 establishments of all
| classes shown in table 2 of the bulletin,
1907, or 81 per cent, were small shops
included in groups Of "hand trades" and
establishments with product of less than
$780," The value OF the product Of these
esta blishments, consisting principally Of
sums received for custom work and re-
pairing, amount to $50, 299, 069, or only
111a per cent of the toa1 products of the
state ....s
! In addition to the 1904 active estab-
lishment6 during the census with capital
of $167,342,210, there were SO idle estab-
lishments with capital of $4,29e;797.
| Eleven Leading Industries.
Table three of the bulletin gives a COM
parative summary of the eleven leading
industries of the state. These embrace
$500 establishments, or 221a per cent OF
the total, with capital of $11O, 4,79o, or
67.7 per cent of the total, and gave en-
ployment to 35862 wage earners, or 46 a
per cent of the total, and paid $17,52S, $685.
or 49.4 per cent of the total wages The
value Of their products was SILT, 172, OPS
or 6772 per cent of the total. These in
dustries are ranked in the bulletin with
reference to the value of their products
Regarding flour and grist milling, the bull
letin says:
Flour and grst milling is the most i'm.
portant industry in the state. The SIP es.
adjustments reported In 1900 gave employ.
ment to 4,0S6 wage earners, or SO per cen
of wage earners employed in the state, an6
their products were valued at $685. ,7O9, OF
319 per cent of the total value of the products
of the state In 1890 there were 3O7 estab.
lishments $500 wage earners and products
valued at $6O,15S,O OBS. The increase in valu,
of products during the decade was $23, 719, 621
or 1874 per cent. This is greater absolute
increase than is shown for any other in.
& dustry.
In 1900 Minnesota had II per cent of the
total capital invested in the manufacture o.
Touring and grist mill products in the
United States, and led the states in this
regard In 1890 this percentage was "a
New York and Pennsylvania preceding in tn
order named. The value Of products of thu
Minnesota mills in 1900 was Is per cent O.
the total value OF the Touring and grist mil
products of the United States. In 1890 thi.
percentage was ILL., In 1900 no other state
approached Minnesota's total, New York
second in rank having value aggregatin,
little more than one half
Lumber Industry Second.
Regarding the lumber industry of Min.
nesota, the bulletin says:
The manufacture of lumber and = timbe
products ranks second among the industrie
of the state, with 43S establishments IL IA
wage-earners and products valued at $40. $50,
ISL. In 1890 there were 1872 establishments
1910 wage-earners and products valued a
g $50, OTIS, 1872. The increase in value of product
during the decade was SIS, $40, O29, or 1913 ne
cent.
This industry was started in 1921, tw
years before the milling industry began. Min
nesota is one of the leading lumber -producin
states of the nation, its characteristic prod
ucts being white and Norway pine. within
. its borders the state now includes In al
: probability, a greater quantity of merchant
able forest pine than any other state I,
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