The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-19
-S~---- Shows General Industrial Advance. ALABAMA IS PROSPEROUS Capital Invested in Factories h.
 creased 72 Per Cent. Manufacturing Enterprises Reach
 ed rOtai of slOs.OOO,OOO--
 other Statistics.
nY W. ,. sHowALTER.

Washington, Nov. 1s.--In the prepa- ration of the tables for the recently | issued bulletin of the manufacturing in-
 dustry of the United States, as well as I in the preparation of the tables for the ! bulletins for the various States. the Census Bureau overlooked about the most interesting deductions that are to be made from the figures. and there fore leaves to the fndividutal student of these bulletins the laborious task of making these deductions for him- self.
 For instance, 1t is highly interesting to contrast the wages received by wage earners in the various States, and to contrast the average wages of these wage earners in 1900 and 1905, and yet the bulletins make no such contrast, simply giving the total wages paid and the total number of working men.
 After great deal of laborious arith- metical exercise the writer Is able to make some interesting showings as to the country at large, and as to the fol- lowing nineteen States: Alabama. Ar kansas. Connecticut, Florida. Georgia, | Illinois Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana,
 Mississippi, North Carolina, South Car olina, Tennessee, Texas. Virginia, West | Virginia, Massachusetts and Maryland. Taking the United States as whole the capital invested in its manufactur- ling enterprises increased %S.5 per cent. | from 1900 to 1905. The number or wage earners increased 16 per cent, while the wages increased % per cent. | The production of the manufacturing \ industry increased 29 per cent. | It will be seen from this. that cap Iitalization has increased with consid- 1 erable more rapidity than has produc- | tion. In other words. dollar of cap l ftal does not show as much gross earn | ing power for 1905 as 1t did for 1900. I Tn the latter year the capital invested
 was 79 per cent of the gross earnings I for the year, while in 1905 1t took s1 cents of capital to make one dollar of gross earnings. Tn 1905 each wage earner in the United States received an average of $477 for his annual
 wages, ana, turned out an average of s2, 706 worth of finished product. In 1900 the average annual wages of the wage-workers was S42e. and the av- | craze value of the finished product turned out by each was $2,422.
 These figures are fairly representa- tive of conditions in each State. How ever, when 1t goes to percentages Of \ increase in the output of the establish ments and the wages paid, the Eouth- | ern and Northwestern States have the
 advantage of the East and the North in the percentage of increase In cap- ital, and In the value of the finished products of the factories.
 Alabama Factories Prosperous. Alabama factories had a great era of prosperity in the five year period under
 review. The capital increased 72 per
 cent, and amounted to approximately | $105, 100000 in 1905. There were IS per cent. more wage earners employed
 in 1905 than in 1900. there being e2,173 l employed in 1905. The increase in
 wages amounted to AS per cent. the total wages paid in 1905 being approx
 imately s22.O00.O00.
 l The average wages of the wage earn CTS of the State was $350 a year in 1905, and $2s7 in 1900. Each 96 cents of capital invested in 1905 yielded a dollar in gross earnings, while each S3 cents of capital invested in 1900 yield
 ed dollar in gross earnings. It will be seen that capitalization is consid-
 erably higher in proportion to gross
 earnings than in 1900. The average gross earnings for each wage earner in
 1905 were S1,756. In 1900~the average
 was s1.s7O.
 Arkansas becomes interesting in a comparison with Alabama, for while 1 the average wages paid in Arkansas were higher in 1905 than in Alabama, yet the average value produced in the Ishape of gross earnings was lower in 1 Arkansas Her capital increased 7i per
 
 Wage earners employed increased only 6 per cent, while total wages paid in- l creased A per cent. The average 1 wages of Arkansas wage earners was | S439 in 1905, and S323 in 1900. The capital invested was S6 per cent. of the l gross earnings in 1905 against GA per cent in 1900. The average finished product turned out by each wage earn
 CT was S1,62s in 1905 and sl.265 in
 1900.
 1 Georgia shows an increase of 7O.5 per cent. In manufacturing capital in the | i've years, which approximated S1S5,- OO0, 900 in 1905. There was an increase of Il per cent. in the number of wage earners, 36 per cent. in the total wages paid and 50 per cent in the finished product turned out. The average wages of the wage eRrners of the State were
 S294 in 1905 and S279 in 1900. The average wage earner contributed S1,629 to the gross earnings in 1905 and $1,134
 in 1900.
 Kentucky Has Good Showing.
 Kentucky shows an increase of 69
 per cent. in the capital invested in man.
 ufacturing, which amounted to $147.-
 100000 in 1905. She shows an increase of 15 per cent. in the number of wage earners employed, and an increase of 32. 5 per cent. in the total wages paid, which amounted to over $24,000,O00 in l9O5. The average wages per man in the Kentucky factories was $409 a year
 in 1905, and S357 in 19O0 while the average contribution to the gross earn
 inBs per man was $2,675 in 1905, and S2,445 in 1900. The production of the
 Kentucky factories increased 26.5 per
 cent. during the five years. Capital
 was 90 per cent. of production in 1905 and s95 in 1900.
 Mississippi makes rather a unique showing. Her manufacturing capital
 increased 121 per cent. in the five years amounting to $5O,OOO, 900 in 1905. This
 is the highest per oentage of Increase
 for any well-settled State There was an increase of A per cent. in the num-
 Der of wage earners. of whom there