Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-04-29
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amount of wages and salaries paid:


There are two or three compari-
sons that are curious as well as in
teresting. One is the fact that the
manufacturing interests of the state
spent in 1900 almost the same amount
of money for materials used in the
manufacturing process as they have
represented in their capital invest
ments. The figure is SOL, 17O,357, as
compared WITH the $1O2,733,10s in
vested. Another curious thing is the
fact that while manufacturing con-
Germs employ only &c per cent. of the
population of the state, they, own as
much as 60 per cent. as the assessed
value of the real estate. The value
of the land and buildings invested
in the manufactures is $30,255,515 out
of the total value of $44O,769,952. A
comparison that will be noted from
one of the above tables will be that
the amount of capital invested in the
states manufactures in 1900 was
nearly 100 times as large as in 1850,
just n half century ago. Still an
other interesting item that will be
noticed is the fact that the hundred
millions Of capital produced more
than one and half times its own
value. The proportion between capt.
tai and production was about the
same in 1890. In 1880, however, the
value of the manufactured products
exceeded twice the amount Of capital
invested, and this statement is also
essentially corrected for both 1850,
and 1870. At the first.census OF Iowa's
manufactures Tin 1850 the proper
ton was largest of all, at which time
production and capital were about
three to one in value.
Some interesting statistics have
been gathered concerning the hand
trades of the state. OF these there
are total of 6,924 establishments in
operation. The proprietors OF these
nearly 1000 establishments number
only s,051, which fact indicates that
the great majority of these shops
are owned by individual proprietors.
These 5000 proprietors have invested
in their little plants thousand dol
lars apiece, making the gross capt..
talizatioln, annoy! amount to the exact figure
of $s,722,661. They pay an annual
wage of $4,629,7s6 to 11,Oss workers.
The greatest number of establish
ments engaged in any one trade is
2,4Os: these are the blaclssmiths and
wheelwrights. Establishments en-
gagged in the millinery trade are a
good second in the list, reaching a
total of 926. The carpentering trade
has 74o shops in the state. Type
writer repairing comes at the very
bottom of the list, with only one es-
tablishment. It is not at all surpEis-
ing. but nevertheless interesting, thai
while the other establishments nnm:
Der hardly "A per cent. more than
those engaged in the hand trades
they have capitalization of over 971
per cent. greater. The wage account
OF ths larger concerns was nearly
five times as large as that Of the
hand trades
In 1900 it was found that there
were " idle establishments with a
capital Of $1,293,sso.
The II leading Industries OF the
state in the order of their Importance
are as follows: ,.--..-.-.-
! Wholesale slaugntering and meat i
packing. @TbIs industry has total capital
of 81. 81, 1853. With ~ establishments in oper-
alton. The 1851 'wage-earners employed
are paid s1,2OS167 per year The manufac-
tured products put upon the market in 1900
amounted to the value of $25. OLA or 1876
per cent. of the total value Of the products
of the state.
O. The factory manufacture of butter,
cheese and condensed milk ranks second In
imp9rtance, with 9N establishments for
1900, 1888 wage.earners and products val
ued at sl5, s46 on. The total wages paid the
workers In this industry amountato 1885,
s53, and the working capital is 1914 ,0TF
3. Flour and grist milling holds the third
place among the manufacturing Industries
OF the state. According to reports, 72 es-
adjustments are engaged IN this industry,
wsth total eapitaiisatien ef 3s.4sie7e mp
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