Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-05-01

0S2; annual products, 1856, 759, 0S4.
Leather, tanned, cured and fin~ished-Es-
adjustments, 1896; capital, s17S, 81, 42l; en-
ployes, 81, 100; wages, $50, 539, 091; cost of raw
materials, SIS, 6S, col; annual products,
500, O3S, 1877.
Observation-Disclosures $3.50; capital,
1851, GA, GS7; employees, A. Al: wages, SIS, 06,-
asa; cost of raw materials, $70,5l2, 042; annual
products, $S40, 615, 1866.
Lumber and timber products-Establish-
ments, 33,0S6; capital, $611, Gil ,524; employees,
~, 20; wages, $l4, $40, 591; cost of raw mate
rails. $S17, 1923, 54S; annual products, $3.50, SS2,-
9S4.
Paper ard wood pulp Establishments,
1863; capital, $167, sol, us; employees, 1856;
wages, $40, TAG, 426; cost of raw material, &c.
$50, 1856; annual products, $12I, 2S6, 1852.
Refining Observation-Disclosures, g.;
capital invested, So, 927, S92; employees, H.
1873; wages, Sc, III ,0S7; cost of raw materials,
$ld2, $50, S4l; annual products, $123, 1888 S4,
Newspaper and periodical printing and
Observation-Disclosures, Il, 1906; capital,
1892, AS, 70S; employees, 9 1904; wages, $50, SSS3,-
Col; cost Of raw materials, $50, pa, g04; annual
products, $222, 1888, 569.
Ship Observation-Disclosures, 1,ll6; cap
ital, $685., 701; employees, 46,7S1; wages, $24,-
S39, 1863; cost of raw materials, SO, 4S6, 772; an
nual products, SASS, 15S.
Strengthening and meat p~acking-Estab-
lishments, 921; capital, $3.50, l9S, 264; employees,
1884, wages, $50, 457, 0l3; cost of raw mate
Tlals, $6cS,5S3,67I: annual products, $IS6,60S,-
GO.
Wool Observation-Disclosures, q
1853; capital, 1898, 374, 406; employees, 245, al;
wages, 1873 9S; cost of raw materials, $780,
l,54t; annual products, $0O, 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
anne period has increased 23.S per
cent, the number of manufacturing 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 81 per cent. The
greatest number of decreasesa are shown
t in the number of establishments in the
different lines, a fact that may be cred
: tied to the tendency to industrial com
e binations. The number of agricul-
e tural implement factories have de-
creased PA per cent, for instance,
t while the value of the manufactured
I product has increased 24,5 percent, the
: amount of capital invested has in
creased SIS per cent, and the wages
paid show an increase of "a per cent.
S Strengthening and meat packing estab-
] lishments give another notable in
e stance of this percentage of decrease
e and increase. In that line the number
o of establishments have decreased 17.6
per cent, the capital invested has in
s creased 61.9 per cent, number of en-
n ployes increased 55.S per cent, the
wages paid increased 37.7 per cent,
and the value of the product increased
n Ola per cent. This is due to the replac-
ing of the local butchers to a great ex-
r tent by the big packing houses of the
h metropolitan cities.
n Annual Profts.
It To arrive at figures representing
o somewhere near the total profits OF
our manufacturing industries it is but
A. necessary to add together the @variou.
r items composing the total cost o:
manufacture and deducting that from
S. the value of the product. The items fig
: uring in tn cost of production are thu
- salaries of 156,405 salaried officials ant
# clerks, not enumerated in the wage
earners, amounting to $169, ;244, 9Ss; tn
W amount paid wage-earners, amounting
n, to $685., 714,010; the miscellaneous ex
penses, which include such items a
:, rent, taxes, insurance, etc, %amountin!
~ to $745, SOS, 665, and the cost of raw ma
terials amounting to So, 743, 536,496. To
C. gether these items give a grand tota
of $5,462, 1854, 159, which, deducted iron
the value of the manufactured proc
uct, $6,117, 1865, no, leaves $685. Col ,55
n representing profits.
n, These items of cost and %productio
show some notable increases durin
OIL; the ten years from 1890 to 1900. Th
Al. number of salaried officials and clerkI
es, for instance, have increased from 125
81; 567 in 1890 to 156,405 in 1900, a percen'
age of 24.6. During the same time the
es. salaries increased from Sill COG, PA
40; 1890 to $3.50 ,244,9ss in 1900, a pc
). centage of SIG. The number of wag
3s. earners increased from ,923, 7S1 in IS!
lal to 1905, 537 in 1900, a percentage Of 10.
and their wages increased from $7S5
. ~ 907, 4s5 in 1890 to 1912, 714,010 in 1900,
N6; percentage of 1913. The miscellaneo,
expenses increased from $341 ,G2S,4!
a.. in 1890 to $475, 86s, SOS in 1900 a pc
lis, centage of 1913. The cost of raw m
terials increased from ~, 792, $50, 1856
q. 1890 to So, 743, sac, 496 in 1900, a percen
ID, age Of 34.1. During the same time Il
value Of the annual product increase
sh- from $4,603, 434,1s5 in 1890 to $6,117,93
IL. rio in 1900, a percentage Of 32.9.
49, standing Of the States.
4. OF the different states and territ
M: ries in the union not ole has shown