The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-02-17

TRANSPORTATION
AND INDUSTRY
Report Of W, 6. Garrison
Chief Of the Bureau Of
Statistics Gives Some In
teresting Data
COST OF LIVING GROWS.
STEAM RAILROAD SERVICE IN
NEW JERSEY = EMPLOYERS
AND EMPLOYED.

The report of w. c. Garrison. Chief of
the State Bureau of Statistics, for 1905,
has just been received from the printers
The volume is twenty-eighth Of the se-
ries of annual reports on the subject of
labor and industries that has been issued
! by the Office since it was esta abIished in
1878.
The book contains, approximately, $50
pages relating to Industrial affairs in
which the public at large is interested
equally with those who are Immediately
concerned because of the relations in
which they stand toward each other as
employers and employees.
Besides the Introductory chapter,
which is general resume of the years
work of the bureau. the contents of the
volume are distributed under the follow
ing headings Statistics of Manufac-
tures," Statistics Of Employment and
Wages on the Steam Railroads Which
Pass Through New Jersey" Statistics
of the Fruit and Vegetable Canning In
dustry.' And also studies of the follow
ing named SUBJECTS -"Disease Tenden-
cies of the Pottery Industry" Wages
and Production in the Glass Industry
from 1875 to 19O5,p and THE Relation
of Working Hours to the Cost of Pro-
ductionS The volume closes with an ex-
tensiye chapter in which occurrence of
the year relating TO or in any way affect
ing the interests of labor or industry are
given in chronological order.
The report for the year is based ON re-
turns made to the bureau by 1865 manu-
featuring establishments distributed
among SO general industries, each of
which are presented separately through
out the system OF tables. Only concerns
of permanent character that carry on
productive manufacturing on fairly
large scale are included in the report.
This presentation shows the total
amount of capital invested to be $780,
75S,2 ,252, of which S112, ,171,51S represents
the value of land and buildings used for
factory purposes, $120, ,649, ,299 the value
of machinery and tools and $276, ,937 ,435
the value of stock in process of manu-
facture and cash on. hand. The total
shows an increase of considerable magni
tude over the amount of capital invested
for the previous year, but just how much
it IS impossible to say, because Of a
change in the items which comprises the
total having been made for the first time
in this years report.
The value of stock or material used
in the various processes Of manufacture
during 1904, the year to which the sta
tistics refer, was $341, ,o74. .722, as against
1926, ,497 ,26o during the preceding year,
thus showing an increase in the value Of
material used of $14, ,577, ,456, or AZ per
cent. The selling value of goods made
in 1903 was $554, ,982, $50; in 1904 it was
$57S, ,647, ,032, an increase Of $24, las, ,952,
or 4.3 per cent. The particular industry
which showed the greatest numerical in
crease in the value of product was the
smelling and refining of precious met
ais, the output of the establishments en-
gagged in this business having grown from
S,64S,779 in 1908 to So, ,621, ,11O in
1904 gain in the value Of product of
$12,972, ,s31, or $26.5 per cent.
The industries showing the greatest
value of product are-in the order of inn
portance- Smelling and Refining Prec
ious Metals $e1,621,1I0 Refining
Oils $49, ,404, 797; the manufacture Of
BROAD and Ribbon Silk Goods" $37,-
337, SAP; the manufacture of .'Machin-
ery,n $25, ,540.8 .873. and the production Of
"Leather-Tanned and Finished $50, :
967, ,669. In none Of the industries is the
value Of products for the year less than
$5,00O00O, and in most of them the
amount is shown to range between $10,
600, 900 and the largest figures. quoted
above.