The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-01-03
INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.
Figures from Census Reports on 1873
Combinations = Some Very In
teresting Facts.

Washington, Dec. 3.-CenSus sta
tistics on industrial combinations
show total authorized capitali-
cation May 81, 1900, for the 1s3
corporations reported of S3,6O7, $780,
200 and capital stock issued SO, 0S5,2OO,-
SOS. Of this total the authorized cap
ital includes $270, 127,25O in bonds, ST.
$50 $4,000 in preferred stock and 3d.
OH, S71 $50 in common stock. The cap
ital stock issued comprises $216,412,-
759 in bonds, 81 O66, 525 1868 in pre- ferred
stock and $1,S02 1862, 146 common stock.
The total value of all the prod
ucts of the combinations reported
is $1,661, 295,364, and subtracting the
value of the products of the hand
trades, or the mechanical and neigh
borhood industries, which amount to
$1,216, 165, 100, the products of the in
dustrial combinations in 1900 is found
equivalent to over 20 per cent. of the
total gross products of the manufac-
turing industries of the country as
they existed in 1890.
The 1873 corporations reported en-
ployed an average of 399,192 wage
earners, receiving $194 ,534,715 in
wages. Employment also was given
to 24.5s5 salaried officials, clerks. etc,
receiving a total of $32, 653,62S in sal
aries. Miscellaneous expenses of these
combinations aggregated $151, S51,07.
Total cost of material used was 81 ,0S5,-
os3,s27. The gross value of products,
less the value of material purchased in
partly manufactured form, gives the
net or true value of products of these
combinations as $1,051 ,9s1.5s6. This
represents the increase in the value of
the raw materials resulting from the
various processes of manufacture.
/ The 1913 corporations reported
control 1929 plants that were
active during the census year and
| 174 reported as idle during that
| period. The returns show an
average of II active plants to each cor
poration. Of all these industrial COM
biRa lions 60 were organized prior to
1897. and in the years 1897, 1898, 1899
and prior to June 80, 1900, there were
organized Z, 20, 70 and IS corporations,
respectively. Over so per cent. of the
total number of such corporations
We're chartered during the is months
from January /, 1899, to June 80, 1900
The statistics of industrial combina-
tons exclude all corporations manu-
featuring and distributing gas and
electric light and power, it being i'm
possible to trace all of the latter, and
they do not generally possess the same
economic significance. The returns
show that the iron and steel industry
is at the head of the list, with gross
product of $50S,626,4S2, which is more
than double the value of the product
of any other group except food and
kindred products, and represents
nearly one-third of the total gros
value of products of all the industrial
} combinations. The capital investe,
5 and value of products in the various
; classes of industrial combina tons re
spectively follows:
Iron and steel and their products. $341
1885, and s50S. 626. 1872
Food and allied products. s24G, 6es Gsss ant
s2S2 40S, eS1.
Chemicals and allied products, SIZE. o02 S.
and s1S2 391. TAI
Metals and metal products other thar
iron and steel. s11S,5l9. 401 and s1S0.154.7O3.
Liquors ana beverages, $llS. anc
1913. 49,, ga.
Vehicles for land transportation. SIS, 9C5
6S3 and SIS, aS553S.
Tobacco, s16.191,S1S and s74 o6s.O29
Textiles, $92, 46S. COS and 81, SSS, 2O2
Leather and its finished products. So. 744,
OIL and $45, 500.
. Paners and printing, s5s,271, SOL and s44,
41S,4l7
Clay. glass and stone products, s46,S77, IS
and $23, 25S,1 1872.
Lumber and its manufactures, s24, 47o, IS
and s20,S7S,Sl5.
Miscellaneous industries. s45, 4Os.s6s an
SIS 6O5, 073.
MARKET WOMEN OF NICE.