The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-23
Minnesota Adds Thirty-seven Per-
cent in Five Years.
HAS MANY MORE FACTORIES.
Cheese, Butter, and Condensed Milk
Plants Taking on Numbers;
Other Workshops.


Washington, Feb 20.-In the five years
from 1900 to 1905 the value of the ag-
gregate annual products of the manu-
featuring establishments of Minnesota
increased more than 81 per cent. In 1900
the total value of the products of the
manufacturing industries of the state
amounted to $224,OOO,OOO in round nun
bers, while during 1905 they amounted
to 1907 100000.
The detailed figures of the manufac-
turing business of Minnesota made pub
lie by the census bureau today covers
the returns for the state during 1905,
compared with 1900, not only on the
aggregate of the entire state, but the
figures for the cities of st. Paul, Mime
apolis and Duluth are gives separately,
and a comparative summary of the ag-
gregate business in the selected indus
tries of dairy products, lumber, slaugh-
tcring and packing and flour and grist
mill products are given.
With respect to the aggregate bust
mess of the manufacturing establish
ments of the state, it is shown that
there were 4,096 manufacturing estab
lishments in 1900, with capital stock
of $l33,O0O,000, a percentage of increase
in number of Is per cent and an in
crease of capital stock of 3S per cent.
While the total number of wage earners
in the manufacturing plants decreased
2 per cent, there was an increase in
WAGES of Is per cent, so that in 1905
wage earners in Minnesota factories to
the number of 69,396 received in wages
S35, 7O5, 1878. The cost of the materials
utilized by these establishments increas-
ed 80 per cent, the total cost last year
being $2lO,OOO,OO0.
The statistics of st. PauPs manufac-
turing plants show by these returns Id
per cent increase in the number of es-
Establishments, the number last year be-
ing 6l3, with an aggregate capital stock
of nearly $36,OOO,OOO, and the total value
of the products of the st. Paul plants
increased 26 per cent, reaching a total
of $3S,OOO,O00. The number of wage
earners in st. Paul factories increased
Z per cent, and their wages increased 81
FER cent, the total number last year be-
ing l4,OOO, and the amount of their
wages 100000.
OF the five selected industries in the
manufacturing of Minnesota, flour and
grist mill products make the best show
ing. with a total value of all products
in 1905 of 1921 100000, against $82,9OO,-
600 ir 1900. There was an increase of %
plants in the grist mill industry and an
increase of about 400 in the number of
their employees, and an increase of $780,
900 in wages paid. The cost of the ma
terials used in the grist mill industry
last year was 500, 100000
The next largest item in the Sc
lected industries is represented by lum-
Der, and in this industry there was de-
crease of 33 plants and a decline in the
value of the total products of this in
dustry of nearly $6,OOO,OOO, the total
valuc' of the products last year being
Sal 100000.
The cheese, butter and condensed milk
industry increased the number of its
plants from sos in 1900 to III last year,
and increased the total value of their
products more than $4,O00,00O, reaching
last year total of $l2,S7l 900.