Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-05-14

5SO27S employees, 1TS. 652; wages, 500, O62, 329;
cost of materials, s1O9, 500 Ol3; annual prod
uct, $21S, 23S, 277.
Dairy products Cheese, butter and con-
oensed milk-Esta blishments, 1881; capital.
$50, 49l, 1873; employees, 1850 (does not in
cIude firm members or clerks); wages So
l69O6O; cost of raw materials, sos, l39, sol:
annual product. $1S1, 1S3, 33S
Chemical products-Es blishments. ]. TAO:
capital $25S, Gal; employees, 46. 765; wages,
III, 799, Psi; cost of raw materials $124 O43 S37
annual product, SOP 5S2, 1896
Clay.products-Esta blishments, 6, 422; cap
lta!, sl41, 9l5,323; employees. 1O5.61S; wages,
S5S'o54,O I0; cost of raw materials, Sc, S39 $40;
annual products, $22 903, 1884,
Coke-EstabIfshments 241: capital, $685.
502,679; employees, 1899; wages, 81, OS5' 1856:
cost of raw materials, $19 66a, 532; annual
products, $35, 5S5 AS.
Cordage and twine-Esta blishments. 1O5.
capital, 40; employees, 1914; wages
$4l13,112; cost of raw materials S26 632 COG:
annual products, $37, S49, 651
cotton manufactures Establishments.
I,Uol; capital, $467, 240, ISL; employees, 1902 S6l:
wages, $S6,6S9. 752; cost of raw materials.
sl16 ool'52I; annual products, 1899 1859
Flour and grist mills-Est al lishment *
25S; capital, $21S,714, 1O4; employees, 37.O73:
wages, ST. 41S; cost of raw materials,
,S45; annual products, $3.50, us, OS3.
Gas illuminating and Observation-Disclosures
ments. ST.; capital, 1857 900 SOS; employees.
rails. $2O6Oo,356; annual products, s75,716,-
693. '
Observation-Disclosures 355; capital, SOL
4S,SS; employees, 52,S1S; wages, $26,529, 74S:
cost OF raw materials, SIG, 731 600; annual
products, $56, $50, 712.
Iron and Observation-Disclosures 725. can
ital, S5SO,O4, 10; employees, 226.16l; wages
$l271O,193; cost of raw materials, S549 l27 =
oS2; annual products, $3.50, 759, OS4.
leather, tanned, cured and finished-Es-
ovNif 20 n--
ma e1S ais $l56 es.oo4; annual products,
., il41qu g. RS Adjustments. 1850; capital
S!,64,VS7; employees, 44,4l7; wages, SIS O05.,
products. $34O615, 1866 0Niiuai
Lumber and timber products-Establish-
5m me 53O3o; capital, S611 GIL 524; employees,
@5 260; wages. 500, 64O591; cost of raw mate,
ss4 $50 ''-' ahnuai products $685. $780,
7e Paper and wood pulp - Establishments
wages, s2O TAG. 426; cost Of raw material SO,
009, 20; annual products, S127. 2S6. 1872.
Rennlng petrOleum--ES ia blishments 81.
capital car invested, $50, 327 1872; employees, r.
1879; wages, $6717,0S7; cost of raw materiaiS
sl92, SSs 34l; annual products, s123, 929 1884.
Newspaper and periodical printing and
publishing establishments, 1886; capitai
S az 4iS .oe; employees. 946O4 wages, $50 333
products, $222, $50, 569 "1A "a
Ship building-Esta blishments. Zig: can
5 Iba lol employees, 1851 wages. $24-
nual products, $7457S,15S ''-' an
shmegg1s a11 and ms at, packing-Estab
5S5s4 wages e, $iS sosf af employees
rlals $bSS,5SS.5H; annual products, S7S6, 6OS
Wool anufactures--E sta blishments. p
100; capital 1895, ,405; EMPLOYEES 245 74i
WAGES eS,Si99SS; cost of raw ma terials $237
Sl,ofo; annual products, $500 OeS, S32
While we may glory in the fact that
our total manufactured products have
shown an increase between 1890 and
1900 of 1873 per cent, and the total
wages paid to employees during the
same period has increased 23.S 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 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 1 lines,
In the manufacture of boots and shoes,
for instance, wages have decreased 2.5
per cent; in the manufacture ofscar-
rlages and wagons the amount of
wages have decreased ST. per cent,
while in both lines there has been an
increase in the value of the mannfac-
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 decreases areshown
lin the number of est ablishments in the
different lines, fact that may be cred
tied to the tendency to industrial COM
binations. The number of agricul-
tural implement factories have de-
creased 21.4 per cent, for instance,
while the value of the manufactured
product has increased 24.5 per cent, the
amount of capital invested has in
creased SIS per cent, and the wages
paid show an increase of "a per cent
Annual Profits
To arrive at figures representing
somewhere near the total profits OF
our manufacturing industries it is but