Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-15
MISSOURI FACTORIES.
Extent of the Manufacturing In
terests of the State.
We Have Had Our Full Measure of
Development During the Last De-
notwithstanding and Re-
liable Figures.
Especial Statistical letter.


and reliable information obtained at
the office of the census bureau here
we learn much in regard to the manu-
featuring Importance of the state
of Missouri, which is gratifying to ma
tive pride, and demonstrates that the
state has had its measure of develop
ment and prosperity during the last
decade. The large force of clerks I'M
der Mr.. S. y. d. North, chief statis-
tician for manufactures, has been
busy for some time tabulating and ar
ranging the vast amount of informa-
ton secured during the last census
taking, and we are now able to give in
a complete form accurate information
regarding the growing Importance of
the manufactures of the state, which,
true to its motto, makes the welfare
of its people the supreme law.
During the decade ending with the
year of the census taking in 1900, Mis-
souri, added ATOP
manufacturing es-
adjustments to her
already busy hive of 14,052, a gain of
1875 per cent. Ten thousand seven hun
dred and seventy-two more people
were busy in manufacturing pursuits
in 1900 than in 1890, a gain of 81 per
cent. The production of manufactures
of the state increased from 1924, $751;
993 in 1890 to 1885, 92, 7S4 in 1900, a gain
of 1873 per cent. The capital invested
amounted to $3.50 1858 SAG in 1890 and in
1900 had increased to S249, SSS, 5S1, a
gain of BIS per cent. The total wages
paid in 1900 amounted to $50, 710,42s,
and in 1890 was $59,643,429, showing
that a gain of only is per cent. had
been made. A possible explanation of
this may be that the number of wom-
ell and children employed in manufac-
lures in the state has increased
in the greater ratio than has that of
the men. and this condition always
has a tendency to lower the wage
standard. While the number of men,
16 years and over, employed, in
creased from 102.41S in 1890, to
LOG, 1872 in 1900, a gain of 4.3 per cent,
the women &c years and over) in
creased from 1924 in 1890 to 23,6S3
in 1900. a gain of 29.5 per cent, and
the children showed an almost equal
gain in numbers, 3,491 being employed
in 1890 and 4,510 in 1900, a gain of 29.2
per cent. The total population in 1890
was 1919, 1S4 and 3.106,665 in 1900, a
gain of 100 per cent, showing that
the increase in the number of women
and children employed in manufac-
lures is out of proportion to the in
crease in population.
But if the figures for the past decade
are gratifying, those for the half cen-
fury are still more
so. forduring those "r'"." '"s
so years the manu-
featuring and mechanical industries
of Missouri have had a remarkable
growth. The population during these
wears increased from GS2 ,044 to 3.106,-
Cos. while the average number of wage
Farmers employed in manufacturing
establishments increased from 15,SGS
to 1885: embracing. in 1900, 4,3 per
cent. of the entire population, COM
pared with 2.3 per cent. in 1850. Prob
ably the best indication of the impor-
tance of the wage-earnig class is af-
forded by the greatest number en-
ployed at any one time during the
wear. In 1900 this was 1861, or six
per cent. of the total population of
the state. Both the greatest percent
age of increase in the value of prod
ucts. $685., and the greatest absolute
increase. S164, 430,60s, are shown for
the decade ending with 1870.
Missouri occupies a most favorable
position in the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, valley, and is
richly endowed
with natural re-
sources, including IN abundance of
coal. large deposits of mineral, and ex-
tensive timber areas. The mineral
belt, called the Ozarks, from the Ozark
mountains. is in the southern and
southwestern parts of the state, and
its products are noted for variety and
purity. They include lead, nickel and
cobalt, iron ore, zinc. barytes. granite,
marble. limestone, glass or silica sand,
and kaolin and other clays. The state
has extensive rav uities for distribut-
ing its products by rail and water.
In addition to the 1854 manufac-
turing establishments in the state as
given above, there
o,n : 1Ol nthap C NUM-
adjustments, with
a product of less than $500. These
small places have an invested capital
of SLABS. 200, have 5,673 proprietors
and firm members, and employ 1876
wage-earners, and have a total prod
uct of S1,222, 704. There are in the
state $500 establishments where hand
trades are employed, with 22,036 wage
earners and a production valued at
S49,932. $40. The hand trades include
bicycle repairing, blacksmithing,
wheelwrighting, boots and shoes, Gus
tom work and repairing, carpentering,
custom clothing and repairing, dress
making, dyeing and cleaning, furni-
tire. cabinet making and repairing,
upholstering, lock and gunsmithing,
masonry, millinery, painting, paper
hanging, plastering, plumbing, gas
and steam fitting, sewing machine re-
pairing, taxidermy, typewriting re-
pairing and jewelry and watch re-
pairing.
The ID leading industries of the state
as indicated by the census of 1900,
embraced 5,130 es-
adjustments, or
PA per cent. of the
total number in the state; used a cap
ital of $113, 326,395, or 45.4 per cent. of
the total; gave employment to 59,057
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