Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-03-18
CLAY WORKERS
IN MIDDLESEx
Report of State Bureau Shows
How New Jersey Stands With
Other States.
,Sbeetal Ia lie EvcniAg Meas.

Trenton. Mar. 1S:-Perth Amboy,
Woodbridge and the rest OF MlddleseN
county receive special attention in a
bulletin lust issued by w. c. Garrison.
chief of the state bureau of statistics.
ont lining the clay industries of New
Jersey. as contained in the annual re-
port of the department. Owing to the
length of time required for compiling
the annual report the present report
is for the ycpr 1908. That for 1901
will not be issued until the end of this
calendar year.
Summarized somewhat the bulletin
is as follows:
The manufacture ofvcfay products.
including the various forms Of pot
terry. terra Gotta and brick. is one of
the principal industries of New Jer
sey. The pottery trade is carried on
almost entirely in the city of Trenton:
the making OF terra Gotta material in
Woodbridge, Perth Amboy and other
towns in Middlesex county, and brick
is made in Mercer. MiddleseN and
Bergen counties.
THE manufacture of clay products
is carried on to some extent in most
of the states in the Union. but 1t Is
only in Ohio, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania, that the several Industries
classed generally as ''clay products
has reached Il comparatively hlgh
point of development.
Compared with the other states
named. New Jersey had the smallest
number of simultaneously TO 24S
and 143 respectively. for Ohio and
PENNSYLVANIA: but while behind in
this respect, the rank of the state is
high in all other elements which enter
into the comparison.
''In capital invested, New Jersey
showed SO, 324, 0G6 in 1900, or an aver
age amount of $1Sl. l97 for each. of its
eiohty-one establishments. Ohio had
24S establishments. and an invested
capital of SIS, jG3, 900, or $62. 75S per
establishment. Pennsylvania had ST.
30S. 1856 invested in 143 establishments.
representing I'm average investment
of 79.0s2 per establishment.
''The average in vestmcnt OF capital
per establishment in New Jersey, as
will be seen by the foregoing figures,
is abou three times that of. the Ohio
plantsa and nearly two and .ono-half
times that of Pennsylvania. New Jer-
sey establishments are therefore much
larger and, presumably, better
equipped than those of her princi pal
competitors in the clay products indus
tries.
in the number of w~age-earncrs
employed, Ohio ranks. first, pennsyl-
vania second, and New Jersey third:
although in this respect, the lead of
the last-named stat" is not very great.
''rhc total amount of wages paid in
the United State, at large, and in each
of the three state, named in the COM
parison when reduced to yearly earn
ings, shows New Jersey workmcn to
have earned I'm average of BILL per
year, as against Sl2l.30 in Ohio, $33S.-
96 in Pennsylvania, and &i0l. II in the
United States at large.
a. 1T is thus apparent that during the
census year $500, the wages of labor
for operative, engaged in the manu-
facturc of pottery, terra Gotta. thing.
brick and other industries that use
clays as their basic material. averaged
much higher in New Jersey than else
where: the excess in yearly earnings
paid in this state being &66. II over
that of the United States AT large:
$40. SO over the state of Ohio; and
1872. II over Pennsylvania,
In the total value of goods pro-
duced. New Jersey, while ranking
second to Ohio. is 4 considerable dis
lance ahead of Pennsylvania: the
product of our state being greater in
value by 1913, 20l, although as shown
in the table, the number of wage