The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-08-09

La LII E1IC lCSl
Of the country. The increase in capt.
tai In the five years ended with 1908
was % per cent, against 40 per cent
in the country at large, and the in
crease of products was Az per cent,
against about 30 per cent in the
country at large. The South is no
longer the land of promise, but of
accelerated performances
While the number Of industries in
North Carolina has decreased In the
last five years the capital invested IL
that States manufacturing establish
mehts has been moro than doubled,
The total number Of establishments
IN the State In 1900 was 3,465 and in
l9O5 1922, a decrease of sc per cent.
The total capital invested in 1900 in
ITS manufacturing establishments was
$68,2S3,605, and the total amount in
vested III 1905 was $141, 900, 639, an
Increase of $~72,717,G34, or 1O6.5 per
cent. The value of the products of
these industries increased from $751;
2I4,OS3 to $142.520 ,767, an increase
of $57, 246, 693, of 81 per cent.
The average number of wage earn
ers increased from 1892 IN 1900 to
$3.50 in 1905, or IL per cent, and
the total wages paid them increased
from $14,051,7S4 in~19OO to $21
294 in 1905.
There was a preponderance of man
ufacturing establishments in the rural
districts of the State. The number
reported for these districts in 1905
formed SO per cent. of the total num-
Der III the State; as compared with
81 per cent. in 1900. and the value of
their products was 80 per cent. of the
total for the State; as compared with
81 per cent. in 1900. The average
number of -wage-earners in the rural
manufactures incfeaseGt~from 61,S62
In 1900 to 73,2SS in 1905, but the per
centage that there forms of the total
employed in the manufacturing estab-
llshments of the State remains prac-
tically the same, being S5.5 per cent.
in 1900 and $50 per cent. in 1905.
The percentages of increase for capt.
tai, ~wage-earners, wages, cost of ma
terial and value of. products wercs
also greater for the rural than for
the urban districts Of the State.
Cotton Still Chief Product. -
Gotten goods still continue to main-
tNln first place in the manufactures of
the State. There were III mills in
1900, with a capital Of $33,O11, SIG,
With 3O,273 w~age-earners, obtaining
wages amounting to $5,127,OS7 using
materials valued at ST., 1886, 624 and
turning out products worth $28,:372,-
1913. In 1905 there were 212 cotton
mills in North Carolina, with an in
vested capital of ~$57,413,41S, a total
of :.36,356 w~age-earners, receiving
wages amounting to $7,5O3,512, the
cost of materials used beingk$33,025.-
$40 and the yahelof products turned
out $47,254yO54.
In 1909 lumber and timber pro-
duets stood in second place, with
1904 establishments, having a capital
of $S,649,15S and products
valued at $14,474,2Sk 1905 lumber
fell back to third place, with 1912
establishments, with a capital of $780,
O6S,35S and products valued at $15,-
13l,379. Tobacco occupied third
place in 1900, with 80 establishments.
having a capital of $6,S74,9OS and
products valued at $13,620,816. In
1905 manufactures of chewing and
smoking tobacco and snuff jumped
into second place, thereby forcing
lumber manufactures back to third
place. However in 1905 there were
only 80 establishments making chew
ing, smoking and snuff tobacco, but |
their capital had increased fve-fold, |
to $32,02S,9S0, and their products had
doubled in value, to $25,4SS. 721.
Flour and Grist Mills Fourth. 4
The flour and &rist mills products |
of the State stood in fourth place in
both 1900 and 1905. There were 217 |
of these establishments in 1900 and
234 in 1905. Their products in 1900 |
were $4.702,514 and in 1905 $685.
no. The other leading industries |
were carriages and wagons, ears and
general shop construction, fertilizers,
and machine shop products,
furniture, hosiery and knit goods,
leather goods, planning mill products,
seed and cake oil and cigars
and cigarettes. The IA leading indus.
tries of the State had 2,299 establish-H
ments in 1905 and of establishments
in the State. The capital invested In
these ii leading industries amounted
to $12S, $780, 43.
The manufacture of cotton goods
was the most important industry in