The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-01
MANUFACTURING in IOWA.
Bulletin is Issued by the Census
Bureau Davenport Leader in
Capital Invested.

letin on the manufactures of Iowa as
shown by the census of1905. Itappears
that during the period from 1900 to 1905
there has been a decrease of 43 in the
number of manufacturing establish
ments in Iowa, although the cities made
gains of 139. The total capital increas-
ed by nearly $26,OOO,O00, or over 80 per
cent, and the value of products increas-
ed nearly $2S000,00G, or about 81 per
cent. The average number of wage
earners increased 5,061 and the wages
increased about $5,000,000. The decrease
in the number of establishments is due
to the decrease in creameries and saw
mills.
In 1900 Iowa had 14,S19 manufacture
ing establishments, $3.50, wage earners
producing goods valued at about $780,
100000. Of these, 4,S2S establishments
employing 44,42O people, producing
goods valued at $132,S7O,S65 are COM
parable with the class of establishments
included in the census of 1905, when the
number of establishments reported was
4,7S5; workers, 49,4S1, and the
value of products S16O,572,313. OF
these reported in 1905 34.S per cent
were in cities, and in 1900 the percent
age was 31.6. The percentage of capital
in rural was greater than in city dis
tricts.
The 1857 establishments reported in
1905 for the seventeen leading in
dustries formed 1876 per cent of the
total. The capital was S75,350,975;
products for year, $120,0OO,OO0, nota-
BILE increase over 1900.
The value of the products of the COM
bined slaughtering and meat packing
industries in 1905 exceeded that of any
other in Iowa, being s9O,O0O,OOo, or 1877
per cent of the total. The number Of
establishments in 1905 was less than in
1900, but during that period the average
number of workers increased 202, or 7
per cent, and the value of the products
S4,379,O26. Gross weight of beeves
slaughtered in 1905, 92,21O,OO0; in 1900
S1,O65, 900. Hogs, 1905, 46S,350,00O; 1900
453,457, 900. Sheep, 1905, 1851 900; 1900,
1,242,OO0. Calves, 1905, 1,247,OO0; 1900,
$4,000.
Cheese Second to Packing.
Cheese, butter and condensed milk as
an industry ranked second, which was
also it's rank in 1900. Total value of
products in 1905, $12,s95,oOo; in 1900,
49, sol 900. Pounds of milk in 1905, $685.
451 900; in 1900, 1,542, 100000. Gathered
cream, pounds in 1905, 110,0OO,O0O; in
1900, As 1921 900. Milk for making cheese
in 1905, pounds, 2S,474, 900; in 1900, 49,
$4,000.
The total products of creameries in
1905 was $15,O2s,OOO, against $15,S46,OOO
in 1900. Pounds of butter produced in
1905, about 81 100000; in1900, 100000.
Cheese products in 1905, pounds, $685.
900; in 1900, 100000.
Flour and grist mills ranked third in
value of products. Value of products in
1905 was $12,O39,0OO, an increase of
81 ,OS6,O0O over 1900. Cedar Falls, Sioux
City, Waterloo, Davenport and Cedar
Rapids are the principal urban centers
of this industry. The number of bushels
of wheat used in 1905 was $4,000, a de-
crease Of 2,s14,OOO over 1900, but the
total cost of the wheat in 1905 was
81 1894 900 in excess of that used in 1900
In 1905 /, 5000 bushels of corn were
ground less than in 1900, due to short
crop in 1904.
Printing and publishing ranked fourth
in 1905 and sixth in 1900. The increase
in products was $2,145,000. Newspapers
and other periodicals contributed in
1905 total of $6,e5S,OOO, and job print
ing and book publishing, $1,632,00O. In
1900 there were 81 typesetting and cast
ing machines in Iowa; in 1905 there
were 1872. Total number of newspapers
in 1905 1,156. an increase of % since
1900. OF these 1909 were printed in
English. Al in German, II in Scandinav-
ian, 4 in Dutch, in Bohemian. During
the period between 1900 and 1905 the
number of German papers decreased 5
Scandinavian 4, Bohemian 2, Dutch
The aggregate circulation per issue of
all periodicals in 1905 was 1,747,112, Of
which 1,167, 900 was of weekly, $4,000
daily and $4,000 Sunday.
Forty establishments were engaged
in railroad construction and repair in
1905. Wage earners, 6,372; value Of
products, s7,e1s,OOO, an increase of 1915
and 22.5 per cent respectively.
Food Products.
The manufacturers of food products
numbered q in 1905, against 18 in 1900
number of wage earners increased from
735 in 1900 to 977 in 1905; value of pro-
ducts from S4,597 900 in 1900 to $685.,
900 in 1905, or over so per cent. Sixty.
five nor cent of the nroducts IF this in