Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-05-08

5n.s79; employees; 1880: wages. H.os5, 7ss:
cost of raw materials, 3ls,6A5s2: annual
products, SIS AS,
Cordage and Observation-Disclosures 106;
capital, 2s.275.4 40; employees. ls,l14; wages,
$4.11S,l12; cost OF raw materials $26632, COG;
annual products, $37,Sis.661.
1851; capital, $467. 2a4157: employees, 800, SOL;
wages, &6. 6S9.62; cost Of raw materials,
Sl16.50l,527; annual products, $685., 19S, 6l9.
Flour and grist Observation-Disclosures S.
2aS; capital. $28.714,104: employees. 1903;
wages, $f1,70e. 41S; cost Of raw materials,
VIE. S26. 345; annual products, $500. 719.063.
Gas illuminating and heating-Establish
ments. ST.; capital. $5s7 ,O0O.5 O6: employees,
2.459; wages, S12. 1885, 96: cost of raw mate-
rails, $3066 $50; annual products, SIS, T16,-
6ss
Glass-Establishments. SIS: capital, $751;
1880; employees. 52,S1S: wages, 6.52S. 74S:
cost OF raw materials, SIG, 731 ,O0e: annual
products, $56.639, 712
Iron and Observation-Disclosures rs: cap
ital. $s0,0a1.710; employees, 2a6,16l; wages.
7lO.lS3; cost of raw materials, $549,127,-
OS2; annual products, $sa5,759,0 e4.s !.
Leather, tanned, cured and f1nlshed-Es-
tablishments. 1856; capital. $173, 81. 42l; em-
ploEes, 52,109; wages. so, 5S9. O9l: cost of raw
materials, $155. 6S,0o4: annual products.
500, 0SS. 127.
Liquors-Estab lishments, $3.50; capital,
$lS1,614,Oe7; employees, a, AZ: wages, $2S,G05,-
~; cost of raw materials. sos ,O42; annual
products. sS40.615, 466.
Lumber and timber products-Establish
ments, 33,0So; capital, SSH gil, 524; employees,
IS, a0; wages. 500. 640,591 cost of raw mate
rails. $Sl7, 92354S; annual products. $566. S32,-
9S4.
Paper and wood pulp establishments,
76S; capital, $l67, 5O7, 713: employees, 1866;
wages. $a0 TAG, 426; cost OF raw material, &c.
Ss0. 2s6; annual products. Sl27. 2s6.162
Refining Observation-Disclosures. 81;
capital invested, $96. 327, S92; employees, 49,
l99; wages, $6.7l7. ESQ; cost of raw materials,
s102, S59.341; annual products. $12s, 929, 1884,
Newspaper and periodical printing and
publishing-Esta Adjustments, 1886 capital,
Sl9s ~. 70S; employees. 94.604: wages, $50. $685..
061; cost of raw materials. so, 2l4, 1904: annual
products, $2229ss.5se.
ttal 81 1862. 7O1; employees, 1871: wages. $2a,-
9.163; cost of raw materials, 80 4S6, 772: an
nual products, $74.57s,15s.
Slaughtering and meat packing-Estab-
lishments, 921; capital, SIS, 49,, 264; employees
1854; wages, $S3. Al, 013; cost of raw mate
rails, 1858. 5SS577: annual products, $7S6. co.,
60.
Wool Observation-Disclosures, p
FEB; capital. 1886, 354, 406; employees, PAS al ];
wages, 50 379, 1893; cost of raw materials, $780,
91, 546; annual products, 500, .SS3.
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 1913 per
cent, the number of manufacturing es-
adjustments 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 inn
portant lihce 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 notedsa de-
crease in the amount of capital in
vested, and there has been decrease
in the amount of wages paid in II lines,
In the manufacture Of boots and. shoes,
for instance, wages have decreased rs
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 per cent. The
greatest number of decreases areshown
in the number of establishments in the
different lines, fact that may be cred
tied to the tendency to industrial COM
binations. The number of agricul-
tura1 implement factories have de-
creased 21.4 per cent, for instance,
while the value of the manufactured
product has increased 24.5 percent, the
amount of capital invested has in
creased S.5 per cent, and the wages
paid show an increase of "a per cent.
Slaughtering and meat packing estab-
lishments give another notable in
stance of this percentage of decrease
and increase. In that line the number
of establishments have decreased 17.6
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 ProAts.
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 fig
uring in tn cost Of production are the
salaries of 1856, 4O5 salaried officials and
clerks, not enumerated in the wage
earners, amounting to $169, 244,9ss; the
amount paid wage-earners, amounting
to s'62,714,o1o; the miscellaneous ex-