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

d 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 ofcompiiing the
manufacturing statistics has but just
reached the stage where the presenta-
tion 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 1T
is safe to base the manufacturing fig
ures of the country on these, to which
might be added probably an increase
of ten per cent.
Beginning with the census of 1850
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 l40,-
1873 manufacturing institutions in the
country, and in 1850 there were u
123,O25. In 1860 the total capital in
vested in manufacturing establish
ments amounted to 81, 0O9,s55, us; the
total value of wages paid, $37S,S14 1866;
the total value of raw material con-
sumed, $1,031, 605,092, and the total
manufactured product amounting to a
value of 81, ss5, sci .676. Going back an
other ten years to 1850 we find the
total capital invested at that time was
but $533. 245,35t; the total wages paid
S236,755.464; the raw materials con-
sumed, $555,1 1913, 1922, and the value of
the manufactured product, $1,01o, 1O6,-
GIG.
Heavy Increases.
Mr.. S. Y. d. North, the chief statis-
tician for manufactures, in comment
ing on the remarkable advance in our
manufacturing interests, said:
at will be observed that, in COMPARE
son with the figures of the census OF
1850, there has been an increase in
capital invested approximating nine
teenfold; in the average number OF
wage-earners about five and one-hali
fold: in the amount of wages paic
about tenfold, and in value of prod
ucts about th~irteenfold. This is ar
unusually remarkable showing wher
we consider that the population OF
the country has increased in the mean
time but about two and one-quarter'
fold. While these comparisons mus
be made with many reservations, they
nevertheless afford, in all the items
except that of capital invested, an ap
proximate exhibit of the enormous in
crease in manufactures which oc
Cured in the United States in the las
half of the nineteenth century. The.
are particularly suggestive as an in
dication of the increasing %productiv,
capacity of labor, due chiefly to tn
increased effectiveness of maehiner,
and the largely increased investmen
of capital. The apparent value o
products per wage-earner has in
creased from 81, O65 in 1850 to So, 451 il
1900"
The table given at the head of thi
article does not include the small
establishments with an annual valu
of products of less than $500. Of thes'
there are a total of 127,419, with a.
invested capital of $44,3ss,065, employ
ing 55,12s, to whom is paid So, 122,12
in wages annually, and turning out al
annual product valued at 500, 724,643.
The Large Industries.
Public interest naturally centers il
the large industries, and what eacl
contributes to the grand total of on
manufactured products together wit
the number of ~wage-earners to whor
they give employment and the amour
of wages paid them. The followin
summary gives much of this inform;
ton in a condensed form with the il
dustries arranged in alphabetical o,
der:
Agricultural implements-Number of e
Establishments, It's; capital invested, $k7
7W, 951; wage earners employed, 46,5S
wages paid, $22, $50, $50; cost of raw mat
rails, $43, 944,62s; value of annual produc
s101, 27, AIS.
Boots and Observation-Disclosures, LEO
capital, $101, 7s5, 233; employees, 1892; wage
see, ITS, SS3; cost of materials, $l69, 6O4, 054; al
nual product, $2e1 ,02S, $50.
Carriages and Observation-Disclosures
1882; capital. 11S, 1S7, S5s; employees, 62,54
wages, 1929, 814, Oil; cost Of materials, $56,67t
O73; annual product, $121, 537 ,276.
Cars and general railroad shop constru
Observation-Disclosures, 1895; capital, 81!
$50, 27S; employees, 1859; wages, 500, o62, 3.
cost Of materials, s1o9, 539, 0l3; annual pro
uct, s218, 1888, 1T.
Dairy products Cheese, butter and co
densed Observation-Disclosures, 1851; capiti
$3s, 4g1, 799; employees, 1880 does not 4
clude firm members or clerks); wages, $
1853, 060; cost of raw materials, SOB, 1884,
annual product, $751; 1888.
Chemical Observation-Disclosures, "a
capital, SZ3s, 29,641; employees, 1915; wag
$21, 100, 251; cost of raw materials, $124, O3 g
annual product, 500, 5S2, 1886.
Clay Observation-Disclosures 6, 422; CO
ital, $147,91 1923; employees, 106,61S; wag
$50, 534, loo; cost Of raw materials, $6,S39,S
annual products, $22, 1903, 1884.
Observation-Disclosures, 241; capital, s.
6R, 679: employees, 5000; wages. $7,OS5,7
cost Of raw materials, $40, 665, 532; ami
products, 35,58b,4R
Cordage and Observation-Disclosures, ]
capital, 500, 275, 40; employees, 13,114; wag
$4,113,112 cost of raw materials. $26, 1884,
annual products, $37, S4s, 651.
Cotton manufactures - Establishmen
1861; capital, 3467, 240, 1877; employees, 302,s
wages, $50, $50, 752; cost Of raw materia
$176,551,527; annual products, 1889, 1sS, e19.
Flour and grist Observation-Disclosures,
25s; capital, $21S, ia, 104; employees, 37,t
wages, ST. 08, AS; cost Of raw materis
$475, 1926, 345; annual products, 1850, 1908.
Gas Illuminating and Neutrality-suspicious.
ments, ST.; capital, s567, 00,6O6; employ
n, 459; wages, 81, 436, 296; cost Of raw Il
rails, $40, COZ, 1856; annual products, $751;
693.
Observation-Disclosures. 355; capital, !
l0s,soe: employees. 62,s1s: wages. S2e,e2s,