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


Cordage and Observation-Disclosures 105;
capital, SO, 275,47O; employees, 13,114; wages
$4,I5,u2; cost of raw materials, SIC, 632, 006;
annual products, $S7, $40, 651.
cotton manufa ctures - Esta bliShments.
1061; capital. s467, 240. ISL; employees 800, s61;
wages, $50. 6S9, 752; cost of raw materials,
sll6. 5ol,527; annual products. $685., 19S, 619.
o-a Flour and grist ESTABLISHMENTS, s.
2oS; capital, 1914, 1O4; employees, 37,O73;
wages, ST. AS; cost of raw materials,
475,s26, 345; annual products, $3.50, 719,O63.
Gas illuminating and heating-Establish
ments, SIT; capital, 1857 O0O,5O6; employees,
22,459; wages, $12, 436, 296; cost of raw mate
rails, $40, Cos. 1856; annual products, $75. 49,
500.
establishments, 355; capital, $751;
2S9OS; employees, 52,S1S; wages, $26,529, 74s;
cost of raw materials, SIG, 731 zoe; annual
products, $56, $50, 712
Iron and ESTABLISHMENTS. TBS; cap
1tal, $5SO01,710; employees, 226 ISL; wages.
SIP, 710,1 1873; cost of raw materials $549, H.
eS2; annual products, 1886, 759,OG4.
Leather, tanned. cured and f1nished-Es-
tablshments, 1,Soe; capital. s17s 421: en-
pIoyes, 2,lO9; wages, $22. 6S9, Oe1; cost of
materials, SIS. 1904: annual products.
500, OSS, 127
Liquors establishments, 1850; capital,
$4o7 ,614,OS7; employees. A.417; wages, SOS, OO6,-
1874; cost of raw ma terials, $7O,512,042; annual
products, $40 615, 466.
Lumber and timber products-Es tab1ish-
ments, 1905; capital, $611, Gil, 1924: employees,
2S3, go; wages. $1O4 $40 591; cost of raw mate
RAILS s317. 923. 54s: annual products, $500. Sa2-
1884,
Paper and wood pulp - Establishments,
| 1853; capital, $167 ,5O7, 713; employees, 1856;
wages, $40, TAG, 1926; cost of raw material So
| O,26; annual products, $127, 2S6, 1872
refining petroleum-Establis 81;
capital invested. $50, 327 1872; employees, 12,
| 1879; wages, s6.7170S7; cost of raw materials,
$lO2 S5S,Sn; annual products, 1923, 929, 3S4
| Newspaper and periodical printing and
ublishing-Estab Adjustments. Is 3O5; capital,
1892 44S,7OS; employees, 81, 604; wages, $50, $685.,
O51; cost of raw materials, $50 PA, 9O4; annual
| products, 500, 9SS, 569
| Ship building-E establishments. 1,116; cap
ital. $77,362, FOL; employees, 46, 7S1: wages, SM,-
S39, 1853; cost of raw materials, 80, 4S6, 772;
nual products, S74,57S 15S.
Slaughtering and meat packing-Estab-
| lishments, 921; capital $3.50 19S, 264; employees
6S,534; wages, $53, 457 ,013; cost of raw mate
rails, $685. 5S3,577; annual products, $7S6, Co.,
| 670.
Wool manufactures-Esta blishments. p
465; capital, 1898, 374, 4O5: employees PAS 14l :;
wages, 49, 379, 99S; cost of raw materials, $780,
@l,546; annual products, s4O0,093, S33.
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 manufa curing 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 6.1 per cent. The
greatest number of decreases are shown
in the number of establishments in TIL
different lines, 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 manufac tured
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.
Slaughtering and meat packing estab-
1ishments give another notable in
stance of this percentage of decrease
and increase. In that line the number
of Adjustments have decreased II 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 Fl g-
uring in tn cost of production are the
salaries of 156.405 salaried officials and
clerks, not enumerated in the wage
! earners, amounting to $169, PA ,9SS; the
amount paid wage-earners, amounting
to 1862, 714,010; the miscellaneous ex-