Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-03-17
MANUFACTURES OF STATE
Wonderful lucrs Use During PERIOD
Of 1900 10 1905
AN INCREASE OF rs PER CENT
Every Line of Industries Shows
Wonderful Increase of Material
Used and Wages Paid.

Inc census bureau has lust issued a
preliminary summary of the statistics
fer the manufacturing industries of
West Virginia. for the year ending
December 81, 1901. 1t is confined 10
he nufacturing estabii. hments
with product of $500 or over, thus
excluding the neighboring industries
and hand trad $. such as the building
trades, dress max ing, custom MILF
merry, custom saving and grinding,
cobling and blacksmithing. Inoludinr
these industries there we're reported at
The last censrs 4,Iis ESTABLISHING
with 83, 2a2 wage earners and products
valued at s74, SIS, $50. These totals
are reduced AS rear as possible to
comparative basis aud the result
presented in several tables, which
shows tile totals for the state and for
the city of Wheeling. aud the totals
for the five principal industries for
1900 and 1905 The statistics show
that there has been subtantial i'm
crease in the ma ufaetnr of tn
sta Q.
There were :. s9i establishments in
operation in West Virginia ~ 1900.
against 2. 1903 in 1905. There were iis
in operation in Wheeling in 1900,
against 1915 in 1905 Tie canital in
vested in the state Establishments in
1900 WIS SO, 1913 i8s. against $50, 7lG.
G6s IN l9a5. an increase in 1--we years
OF iG.G per cent. The capital Invested
lin Wheeling establishments in l980
was Sl2. 2i4. 7o7. and in 1905 il had in.
c eased 0 SIS, 7oi. an expansie 3f
over IS per cent
Ia 1900 there we're LII salari Off
GIRLS and clerks in Ga state establish
meuts, against 2.sss ia 1905 This
gives an incr ase of s. q per cent foi
thr five years. In 1900 tile aggregate
salaries were 81. 5lg, 299 aud in 1905.
81. s.l3 $50. In 1900 there were l0i
such liieials and clerks employ q IN
Vince ling, whose annual sllarie. aggTe.
gat, s40g, 372. In 1908 tie list lad
/ increased 10 5sg, with annual salaries
/ pggregating, S6i6, 6Gf There wa a
gain of a.. Z per cent increase In tile
number Of Officials and 60 per c ut
IN slaries.
There were ~ 69I wage eafners in
the state with annual wages smount.
ing to sci 100. 042 in 1905, agains BIB, :
$50 wage earners in 1909. with wages
agOregating Sl2, $50, $50 This rpre.
5 nts an increase of 32 | per cent in
the Dumhsr OF employees aud OF g. 2
per cent in wages paid.
There were 7,2i6, wage earn rs in
| Wheeling in 1905, against g. 100 in
1900, M increase of 1876 per cent. They
drew s3. s42, $50 in 1905. against so, CTS
$50 in 1900, an increase of 81. per
cent
! The miscellaneous expenses of the ts.
Adjustments of The st ate in 1905 were
s, 229. sos. against ~, 1874. 800 in 1900 /.
an ere SO of $40 per cent. The ex.
peuses OF the Wheeling establish.
menIs aggregated S2,3l2, 259 IN 1905
and 81. 100, ~, in 1900. a., increase of
1877 per ent.
The cost of materials used in the es-
lisl ments OF the state in 1905 was
s5l, 500 ZIG, against $37, 2ss, 253. in
1900, an Increase of ~ per cent. The
materials used in 1906 In Wheeling
amounted TO s13, s06, 723. against $S,-
405. eos In 1900, an increase of 6l.2 per
cent.
The value of the products OF the
Vest Virginia factories in 1905 was
| 8S.ssS.857 against s67. 0o6. 1922 IN 1900.
IN increase of 476 per cont. he out.
out of he Wheeling factorie- increas
from fi5,o74. 34J in 1900, 10 422, 297. :
475 in 1905, increase OF GAG per cent.
| In the Touring industry there was n
enl b. growth. In 1900 there wer.
1875 establishments and IN 1908, 1914. In
1900 there was 81 420. 3iS invested aud
81 1905. S2.622, DOG. The output wa,
,rlued 1t So 200 29l in 1905, against
| az 7ls go 10 100.
ne glass industry had 80 plants Il
a03, whose capital aggregated "a, 200,
| go, aud whose output amounted to
"A. sos. 563 Ia 1900 the were lG
pla4ts, with 81 32sO si capital and al
pntput aggregating si.sH .7g5
In 1905 there we're is iron aud stee
Dlant With : total output Of siS, 5;33,
so. | 1909 there were / establish.
meurs ~iii, d capitalization Of - 202
90 and an output ~ SIG Sl4,2iz.
The z we're II 1905 ~ leather max
inp establishments - Wpst Virginia
with d capitalization of IL $50 G96
aud a total oufnuf ot sB 06i SOD.
1900 there 70 establishments
with q capi aliza so Of ! 4, 04a.GlJ aud
ali annual output OF s6,2l0.s33
There we're 100 saw mils 10 opera
ti0p ia 1905 with a COMMUNICATION ~