The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-08-03
Interesting Figures Contained in
Recent Report of Census
Bureau.
LUMBER AND MILL PRODUCTS
LEAD WITH CIGARS SECOND
AND ROSIN AND TURPENTINg
THIRD - MANUFACTURING Es.
TABLtsIHMENTS OF STATE NUM-
Der 1913.

United States Senator James P.
Taliaferro is sending throughout tbs
state a pamphlet containing the cen.
sus of the manufactures of Florida for
last year, which has just been issued
by the department of commerce and
labor, says the Jacksonville Metropo-
lis.
The report shows that in manufacs
turing industries in the state s32
9S2 Is invested, and the number Of es-
Establishments is 1. 413
Lumber and planning mill products
lead, with cigars and tobacco second.
Rosin and turpentine comes third.
The LOTT establishments reporteI
in 1905 for the seven leading indus.
tries formed 72 per cent of the total
for. the state. The capital invested
in these establishments amounted to
$25, ISL ,4S1; employment was given to
an average of 1886 wage earners, to
whom wages were paid amounting to
$14,297,671; and the products for the
year were valued at $43,144,2O1, FORM
ing 1871, S0.7 and S5.S per cent, re-
spectively, of the totals for the state.
Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes.
According to value of products in
1905, the manufacture of cigars and
cigarettes was the most important in
dustry in the state. The number of
establishments IN 1906 was 81 more
than the number in 1900, and between
those years the value of the products
increased $6,O2S, 45O, or 562 per cent.
In 1906 the total value of the products
of this industry was $16,764,276, or
3S9 per cent. of the total for all in
dustries shown in table 2, and 1873 per
cent. of the total for all industries in
the state. There was an increase Of
3,2S7, or 51.6 per cent. in wage earn.
ers, and of $2,417 1872, or 76.5 per
cent. in wages paid.
Lumber and Timber Products.
The manufacture of lumber and
timber products ranked second in 1905.
There was a decrease in the number
of establ shments of 1877. or 45S per
cent. Capital increased $3,014,174,
or 35.3 per cent; wage earners. ga
or 6.5 per cent; but the total value of
the products shows an increase OF
only $126,171, or IL per cent. This
apparent increase does not indicate
the real excess in value OF products
at the present census over that in
1900, for the reason that at the GEN.
sus of 1900 the value Of that part OF
the product of lumber mills which was
dressed or manufactured in planning
mills connected with them entered
twice into the total value of tina
product of the industry-frst as rough
lumber and again in its finished form.
Also, the apparent decrease between
1900 and 1905 of $1,302761 in the cost
of materials used is due to some ex.
tent to the repetition in 1900 of the
cost Of this remanufactured rough
lumber. The schedule for lumber
mills was so framed at the census OF
1905 as 20 avoid these Implications.
Turpentine and RosIn.
Closely allied to the lumber indus
try is the manufacture of turpentiDs
and rosin. This industry ranked third
according to value of products. The
OF establishments showed an
increase of 40. or 100 per cent; wage
earners increased ass. or 81 per cent;
wages paid, $664,3S4, or 21.3 per cent:
and value of products. $3,432, 300, or
53.1 per cent. The quantity of spirits
of turpentine increased from 1885,
900 gallons in 1900 TO 12,S72,869 gal
Ions in 1905, or 81 per cent. while il
value increased from s4,S00,033 to So
425, S26, Or 1873 per cent. For the
same period the quantity of rosin in
creased from 1.379.530 barrels OF 2S0
pounds to 1,445.902 barrels, and its
value from 81 ,639, 472 TO S3,447,418, or
q oud 1102 mar cent recr,cc ffvaly