The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-27
NEAR 8 MILLIONS.
Decided Increase in Topeka
Manufacturing Capital.
Figures However Show Decrease
in Product
CREAMERIES DID IT.
New Churning Plants Are Es-
tablished Elsewhere.
Rest Of Figures Indicates I'm
changed Conditions.


According to the statistics of the
manufacturing industries in Topeka,
collected under the supervision of Cap
tain Il. NJ. Philips, the city assessor,
she year ending March 1, 1905, shows a
falling off in the value Of raw material
used, the value Of the finished products
and the wages paid. from what the fig
ures were for the year ending March 1,
1904
The value of the manufactured prod
ucts for the year ending March 1, 1905,
was $15sT75s 2S5, while the value of the
product Tor the year ending March 1,
1904, was SIG, 1852, $40. The number of
concerns listed in this years table is
345 against 508 for the year previous.
The amount of capital invested is more
than for the previous year, being ST.
2IS.l29 against $4.S50,7 $50 for last year.
This is a decided increase. The number
Of male persons employed, as given by
this year returns, is 5,3T9, and the num-
Der year ago was 5,445. A year ago
S0S females were employed and this
year the female workers number l. $50.
The wages paid for the year just ended
amounted to So, 224, 427 and for the year
before the total wage paid was SO, 49,
sos. The value of the raw material used
during the past year was SO, 1852, S24 and
for the year previous was worth $10,-
So, 093.
Captain Philips said this morning
when asked concerning the decrease:
The decrease in the value of the man
ufactured products in Topeka during
the past year seems to be due to the
fact that the creameries report a falling
of in the value OF their products of
21,11S, $780, and account for this by say
ing that new churning plans established
by the Continental, at2other places, have
used raw material which formerly was
sent to the Topeka plant. The bakeries,
brick companies, ice plants and mills
report less production during the past
year than for the year before"
The Santa Fe railway this year re-
ports I ,s22 male employees and 30 female
workers. The wages paid during the
year ending March !, 1905, amounted TO
SI,113,901; the raw material used was
valued at 81, 450.3 and the product
was worth s2,053, SIS. Last year the
company reported 1922 men employed
and valued the finished products of the
shops at $2,053,815.
There were IA bakeries in Topeka a
year ago and this year Is. The bak-
cries employ 8 men and 4 women and
paid S23, $40 in wages during the year.
The product during the last year was
worth s12S,180 and for the year ending
in 1904 was valued at $205, 315
The Is blacksmith shops employ q
men and during the year paid $3.50 in
wages and turned out $22,500 worth of
manufactured products. For the year
before the production was valued at
$22, $50.
The three brick plants have $4,000
capital invested, employ SO men and
one woman, and paid S41, 500 in wages
during the year. The production dur
ing the past year was valued at $685.
200, and for the year previous
amounted to $4,000.
Three broom factories employ II
men, paid during the year $3.50 In
wages, and turned out $4,000 worth
of brooms The year before the pro-
T17nfias7 TTaIF4aH al &1E Enn
The builders and contractors this
year number p, against Is for the
year before. During the past year
they employed 349 men, and for the
year previous 276 men. The value of
the production" credited to the con-
tractors during the past year is sea-
600, and for the year before was
$677s150. The wages paid during the
past year amounted to $252,000.
Tcpeka's sweet tooth is supplied by
nine candy factories, which employ 81
men and four women, and paid SIS
090 in wages during the year. The
products during the year were valued
at $68,700, and for the year previous
were worth $4,000.
The carriage factories number
eight, one more than a year ago.
They employ a men, and paid $19,-
$40 in wages during the year. The
production during the past year was
valued at $43, 440, and for the year
previous was valued at 1000.
The IL cigar factories, an increase
of one during the year, employ So
men and g women, and paid S34,9
in wages during the year. The pro-
duction for the year was valued at
S126, $50, and for the year previous
was valued at $122,20O.
The two creameries have S535, 600
capital invested, employ 10S men and
81 women and paid during the year
| $4,000 in wages. The raw material
used was valued at $1,109,514, and the
production was valued at $1,655160
The product of the year before was
valued at S2,773,850.
The dreSsmaking estabIishm ents
number seven, a decrease of five dur
ing the year. They employed So fe-
males and paid $15,3 800 in wages. The
year before the employees numbered
IS. The products of these establish
ments during this past year were
valued at S54.SO0. and for the year
/ previous We're valued at S51100
The four florists during each of the
/ past two years raised flowers valued
! at $4,000.
During the past year nine foundries
and machine shops employed 10 men
and three women. and paid S107,85O
+ in wages. and turned out rnanufac-
tured products worth S322.270. The
year before they employed 135 men
and 10 women, and the product was
valued at 1858, 700
The four harness shops. a decrease
/ Of one since March I, 1904, empioved
IS men and paid S14,800 in wages
The products were valued for the year
at $50, 500, and for the year previous
at S62,95O.
The 10 horseshoeing shops en-
ployed Is men and paid $1,000 in
of the shops We're valued at S31.95O
The year before II blacksmith shops
turned out $4,000 worth of work.
-Four ice and cold storage plants
employ so men, 10 less than during
the year before, and during the yeai
paid S42.1s0 in wages. The produe-
ton for the year was valued at $685..
$50, an increase over the year before
S731. $50.
The 1aundries Increased during the
year from to 10 and employ IS rneT
and 122 women The wages paid dur.
ing the year amounted - eEo oon