The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-11-01
Statistics Issued by the Bureau
of Commerce and Labor Show
That Kenosha is Third City 4
FACTORIES EMPLOY MANY MEN
Milwaukee and Racine the Only Cit
les in the State in Which the Value
of Manufactured Products is as
Large as in Kenosha

The department of commerce and
ment has just sent out statement Of
the industries of Wisconsin showing
the number of men employed and the
amount of wages paid to the workmen
together with an estimate of the value
of plants used in manufacture. The
report makes an exceedingly good
showing for the manufacturing inter
ests of Kenosha. 1t shows that the
city has forty-fve manufacturing
establishments with a total capital
stock of $0,691, 484 1t shows that the
average number of wage earners, not
including Office men and clerks, is
4, 354 and the wages paid to these
wage earners annually is placed at
So, 243, GA. The miscellaneous ex-
penses Of operating the different in
dustrial plants in the city are placed
at $1,401, 900. The value Of the
materials used in the manufacture Of
the different products is placed at
So, 391, 1873 while the value of finished
products turned out in Kenosha DUR
ing the year is placed at $12, 362, 600.
All of these figures have been COM
piled after an examination of the
books of the various companies by
the members of the department of
commerce and labor. These figures
were gathered in 1905 and the amounts
would probably be considerably
larger today, but as these figures are
compiled only every five years these
figures must serve Kenosha until the
next examination is made. This
city stands nigh among the cities of
the state in the number of men en-
ployed and the value of the manu-
featured product.
Among the cities between eight
and twenty thousand Kenosha ranks
first in the number Of men en- ployed,
in the amount of wages paid annually
and in the value of the manufactured
product.
The report shows that the land
owned by the different companies
is valued at $545. 228. while the build
ings used for manufacturing purposes
are valued at 81, 012, 681. The value Of
machinery and tools in the Kenosha
plants is placed at So, 122, 678. The
salaries of the 237 clerks employed in
the different factories is given at
1914, 618. At the time the report was
made the large number of wage earn
ers in the city factories were men
over the age of 10 years, the number
in this class being SAL, there were 913
women over sixteen and the average
number of children for the year round
was but thirty. The earnings of these
children during the year were nearly
81, 900.
Among the cities in the class Of Ke-
nosha the ranking is: Kenosha,
Appleton, Fond du Lac, Green Bay,
Wausau, Beloit, Manitowoc, Ashland,
Marinette, GAINESVILLE, Eau Claire,
Merrill, Chippewa Falls, WATERFOWL,
and Stevens Point.
In comparing Kenosha with the
other cities Of the state not in her
class tile city is ranked as third in
the amount of manufactured products
and in the number of men employed
and the wages paid.
The rating Of the three principal
cities of the state in regard to the
value of the manufactured products
is as follows: Milwaukee S138, 881, 545;
Racine $50, 458, 965; Kenosha $780,
600. The amount paid annually in
wages in these towns is: Milwaukee
$40, o1o, 900; Racine $3,155, O86; Keno
sha $2,243. GA.