The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-03-26
A GOOD SHOWING.
The Progress Made in South Caro-
lima During Ten Years.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
Onr Manufacturing and Other In
dustrieS Have Made Rapid
Strides in the Past Decade,
as Shown by Census.

The revelations Of the tenth census
as shown by a bulletin just issued
ought to prove interesting TO every
citizen of South Carolina, for al! are
concerned in one way or another IN
the development Of our manufacturing
and mechanical industries. y TaIua-
bic compilation OF these statistics ana
summary of comparisons has been
made by the Columbia State, from
which we make the following extracts:
The manufacturing prosperity Of
the State in 1900 IS shown by the fact
that while there we're 7.93Q active eS-
tabliShmentS with capital Of SO
O56. .299 there were only IS idle ones.
with a capital Of Sl15.ll5.
The eight leading industries OF the
State were cotton goods. fertilizers.
Touring and grist mill products, lum-
Der and timber products. planning mill
products. including sash, doors and
blinds, cotton seed products. rice clean
ing and polishing and naval stores.
These embraced 1910 establishments
or 43 6 per cent. of the total number
in the State: used capital OF S5S.-
53S,373. or 500 per cent Of the total:
gave employment to 9,066 wage-earn-
ers, or S1.2 per cent. Of the total num-
Der: and paid S6.e65,9 935 or 73.I per
cent. of the total wages. The value
of their products was S4S.04l,94C or
SIS percent. of the total. Some de-
tails are as follows:
The number Of establishments in
creased during the decade lSSO-l9OO
from l.l69 Jc 1.640: the capital IN
creased from S21,17l, ,l13 to S5S $685.
373: the average number Of wage earn
ers ii. from 5.565 to 1885,; the total
wages paid increased from S3,00S, 122
to s6,965, ,935: the miscellaneous ex-
penses increased from S1,2IS,6I9 to
S2,472. 263; the cost of materials used
increased from S14, 4,301, ,942 to s29,-
272,774: and the value Of products in
creased from S21, ,921,09S to S4S,04l,-
$40. The percentages Of gain iexclud-
inc the numbers of establishments
ranged from 93.3 in miscellaneous ex(
penSes to 1859.
During the decade the capital in
vested in the manufacture Of cotton
goods increased from s11, ,141, 1888 to
$50. .259, ,946; the average number OF
wage-earners from SOL to 30,2O1;
the wages from $3.50, ,494 to S5, ,066,-
$40: the cost Of materials used from
$685. ,32O to sl7, ,263, SS2: and the val
ue Of products from SO, 9,S00,19S to s29,-
I23,
The fertilizer industry showed only
a small increase except in capital, the
enforcement here being from IS, ,920,-
21S to s10,505,O43. The number Of
wage-earnerS increased only from l.
IO2 to l.772 and the value Of products
from S4,4I1.65S to 14.SS2, sos.
The Touring and grist mills showed
contrary tendency as to capital, the
reduction IN this direction being over
one-third and the number Of wage
earners increasing nearly two-thlrdS,
while the value of products increased
Nv
The lumber and timber products
showed these increases: Number Of es-
tablishments, from 352 to 729: capital
from sI.34S,l5 to s5,1S7,727; wage
earners from $3.50 to 1855; wages
from s42O, 5SS- 1897, ,S99, materials cost
from 1895, 2S9 to s2,692S05: and value
Of products from s., l46, 80 to S., POI,
1S4. The value Of planning products,
etc., increased from S711,S ,S3S to ST.
016,32S.
The number of cotton seed oil mills
increased from j. to so: their capital
from s565, ,312. to S1,959,S72; their
wape-earners from 4I6 to 734; their
wages paid from $50, ,354 to s143, ,932:
their cost of materials from $40, sos
to 50, 362, ,S37: and their value Of pro-
ducts from s927,772 to 50, ,l03,423.
There was a decrease in the naval
stores industry: in the number Of es-
tabishments from POI to 132: in capi-
tai from S605, ,S73 to S26S, 10: in wage
earnerS from 2,243 to $50: in wages
paid from S3IS.76S to SI35,5I5; in
cost Of materials from S61,1,3S3 TO
s471,261, and in value Of products
from 1924, 100 to s.S7,656. Appar-
emily the naval stores industry is dis
appearing from South Carolina-and
with it a good many negro 'turpen-
tine hands who can well be spared.
In considering these figures one can
not but be impressed by the lack OF
diversifcation of our manufactures.
Deduct cotton goods, fertilizers, lum-
Der and cotton seed from the list and
there is very little left. The cotton
mills alone employed in 1900 over two
thirds Of the capital: three-fourths Of
the Wage-earners and furnished nearly
two-thirds Of the products.
The fifth table gives statistics Of
the consolidated manufactures Of the
- leading manufacturing cities and
towns: Anderson, Beaufort, Camden,
Charleston, Chester, Columbia. Green
vile, Newberry, Orangeburg. Rock
Hill, Spartanburg and Sumter. These
y communities have - , per cent, OF
the number Of manufacturing estab-
lishments, in the State, II , per cent.
or the capital, employed 33.7 per cent.
Of the wage earnerS, paid 1913 per cent.
Of the wages and 39.1 per cent. Of the
materials used. Their establishments
Welded 39.2 per cent Of the value OF
products, while they contained lO.2
per cent. Of South CaSOlina'S popula-
tion. In the amount Ofcapital invest
ed they stand as follows: Charleston
S12,473,1S7; Columbia s5,271, ,3O6:
GreenviLe 81, ,3SS; Spartanburg s.,
351, ,175: Newberry $685. .625: Ander-
sen 81, ,2S0,111; Rock Hill sS26,94l:
Chester s4SO.624: Sumter S30S,2I2;
oo0t 800. 5000