The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-19
Il. s. CAMPBELL & COMP ANY:

act providing for the organization
and charteriug of private corpora
lions. without the passage of special
acts. was approved Dec 2, 1871
since which time similar provision
has been made by other enactments.
The first saw mill in Texas was
built in 1886 during the war for
independence, and was located just
north of the present town OF
Orange.
In the year 1850 there were 3o9
manufacturing establishments in
Texas: in 1860 there were 93s; In
1870 there were 2,339 in 1880
there were 1895; in 1880 there
were 5,26S: and in 1900 there were
12,2S9
The capital invested in manufac-
turing in those years was so39.29o
$3,272.450; s5,2S4,110, 1920
sci: $46,S15,1S1, and $50, 433,ss2.
In 1850 there We're ,o66 wage-earn-
ers employed in manufacturing
plants in Texas; in the year lsoo
there were 4S,152; and in the year
1905 there were 49,066. The total
| wages paid in the year 1891 was
s322,36S; in 1900 it was $2o,oo2,-
355 in 1905 it was $24, 46S,942. In
addition to the foregoing, IS, H.
100 was paid as salaries to off1cers
! and clerks in 1900.
The total value of the products IN
1850 was $1,16S,53S; in 1880,
$40. 71O.91S; in 1890, $40. 433,55l;
in 1900, s119.414, 1852; in 1904,
s15O,52S,3S9 The figures for lsoo
are all the more remarkable as
MANY pIants were excluded from
the calculation that were included IN
the census of 1900 as factories
The increase during the current
decade. 1900-19l0 in all items clted
will probably be greater than that
in the decade ending with 1901.
The United States census bureau
renorted six cotton mills, with an
aggregate of 6O,S76 spindles IN OPP
Grafton in Texas in 1900; ana 'ld'
six mills were projected
Dec. 81. 1904. there were 'liIteeh
mills in operation; number OF SPIN
dies not given. Their aggregate Val
no AZ assessed for TAXATION, was
81 100 235. and they paid to wage
earners during the year s-o'' 80
other mills have been built slh'e
then. All are prospecting. AS resoi.
capital is turning IN this neid oi
investment with enthusiasm ana 1t
| is prohable that there VIII be IaISe
and esrly increase in the number "i
mills. ,..,--
| According To state comptroller II
ports the following rendlu"hs VI
tsxahle values We're made IN i'"A'
Manufacturers tools aud nipple
ments siO.551125. materials ana
manufactured articles. s&.lol''> 70.
ii, 1909. Manufacturers tools ana
implements. sll,9sl.Foo' mat. la''
and manufactured articles. S-''I =
.ast. iu 1905. Manufacturers l""'7
ana tmnl,m.nts. xlt.1#G.t>5. ma
,sriais and manufactured articles
.sS.tlu.t11.
Tho actual to,al ,a,u'. "'r'm'ei
,ar%er.
From rNt hFa| I" ." f
. taa5 the numb,r off manuinei'li' hs
.s,ablishmenJs u FoI, WORTH Z"
. .r..,s.., sa PEE cent capital in''r'
"A in fhem aud tslue uf pf"aH'.
,uruea aut by them s- r* '*n'
transportation ta,ii'se r"pa'"
Hau AND sagfr homv Ana ''.''s
demand tor manufactured nf"dAs.
LA now ,auspgfe to ,ua"r fhF'
,rou,ahl. thy operation st tas'"'i'
u in r.xss
i IN carts days si th" .""n'a
= s.alfh ia.Fe was nuH HAii"'
bsme market Othsr eoass4i"nF t"'
trs.t..s sro~sh fhsrvsii*r ia.
4 ts.t sins. thar year every i'aaE'''e
want has been Nirhdrawu- a1o
& N. present time there u a" ss-''s =
b COUNTRY. thAt eft~rs . s"'~ tau
tfsesarsng opporruslrss.s-