The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-05-09


b Includes proprietors and firm memb
Not reported separately.
Not reported.
Washington, D. C.-The above table
presents in concrete form the essen
tial results of the twelfth census
relative to manufactures, and gives a
general view of the progress of our
industries. The work of compiling the
manufacturing statistics has but just
reached the stage where the presenta-
ton of accurate facts as contained in
this table are possible, and while there
have of course been some changes since
the date of taking the census yet it
is safe to base the manufactu turing fig
ures of the country on these, to which
might be added probably an increase
of ten per cent.
Beginning with the census of 1880
the government has included in the
statistics gathered figures relating to
the manufacturing industries. The
table given above does not include
these figures further back than 1870,
but for purposes of comparison we
give a few of them here. that. the
growth of the full half century may
be noted. Going back from 1870 to
1860 we find in the latter year but 140,-
433 manufacturing institutions in the
country, and in 1850 there were but
123,025.. In 1860 the total capital in
vested in manufacturing establish
ments amounted to 81 ,0O9, S55,715 the
total value. of wages paid, $37S, S74 ,966;
the total value of raw material con-
sumed, $1,O31, COS, O92, and the total
manufactured product amounting to
value of $1,ss5,s6t, 676. Going back an
other ten years to 1850 we find the
- total capital invested at that time was
. but $3.50, 245, 351; the total wages paid
$3.50. f55, 464; the raw materials con-
sumed, $685., 1922, and the value of
: the manufactured product, ST ,o19, 1885,
GIG.
Heavy increases.
Mr.. S. Md. North, the chief Stats
tician for manufactures, in comment
ing on the remarkable advance in our
manufacturing interests, said:
cit will be observed that, in compari-
e. son with the figures of the census of
&. 1850, there has been an increase in
capital invested approximat ting nine
1teenfold; in the average number of
wage-earners about five and one-half
fold; in the amount of wages paid
a. about tenfold, and in value of prod
: nets about thirteenfold. This is an
unusually remarkable showing when
we consider that the population Of
the country has increased in the mean
time but about two and one-quarter-
fold While these comparisons must
be made with many reservations, they
nevertheless afford, in all the items
except that of capital invested, an APP
proXimate exhibit of the enormous in
crease in manufactures which oc-
CURED in the United States in the last
half of the nineteenth century. They
are particularly suggestive as an in
dication of the increasing productive
capacity of labor. due chiefly to the
increased effectiveness of machinery
and the largely increased investment
of capital. The apparent value of
products per wage-earner has in
creased from $1,065 in 1850 to S2,451 in
I90O.'
The table given at the head of this
article does not include the small
establishments with an annual value
of products of less than $500. OF these
there are a total of 127.419. with an
invested capital of s44.Sss, o65. employ
ing 55,12S, to whom is paid So, 122, 1875
in wages annually, and turning out an
annual product valued at S29, 724,643.
lsass-s. The Large Industries.
Public interest naturally centers in
the large industries. and what each
contributes to the grand total of our
manufactured products together with
the number of wage-earners to whom
they give employment and the amount
of wages paid them. The following
summary gives much of this informa-
tion in condensed form with the in
dustries arranged in alphabetical or
der:
Agricultural Observation-Disclosures of es-
I Establishments. rs; capital invested, $751;
T0T, 951: wage earners employed, 1850;
wages paid. so. 40. $50; cost of raw mate
rials, s4S9i4.62S value of annual product,
500, aO7. 42s.
a., Boots and establishments. 1,6o0:
Capital. s10l. 7s5. 2Ss; employees. 92e wages.
$50 Ia, $50; cost OF materials sl69, 604. ga; an
nual product, $261. $50
-. Carriages and, AwagoRS-ElSt "a biiShments.
\ 1852: capital. fS.1S. SIS; employees, 62540;
wages, SO S14, 91l; cost of materials, $56,6i6,-
073; annual product. 81. 537. 276.
Cars and general railroad shop construc-
Observation-Disclosures, 1,sSS; capital. $lls.