The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-29
Becoming a Great Manufacture
ing and Industrial Center.
Progress Has Been Wonderful
in Last Two Years.
FIGURES TELL TALE.
More Workers, Wages and
Greater Output Than Ever.
Statistics Gathered by County
Clerk Show This.


That Topeka is growing rapidly as
q manufacturing and industrial center
is evidenced by the statement for the
year 1907 prepared by the county
clerk which shows the number of
manufacturing plants and Industrial
concerns doing business in the city at
the first of the year. This statement
las now been completed and shows
among other things that there is more
capital invested in Topeka than ever
before; that more persons are given
employment in these fields of endeav-
ors than ever before and that the val
ue or the output of these concerns is
greater by millions of dollars than at
any time in the history of the city.
On the first of this year there were
S1S manufactures and Industrial con-
Germs doing business in this city. This
is an increase of 20 over the number
doing business on the first of last year.
Thirty-six of the concerns doing bust
ness on the first of last year, all of
them minor ones, suspended do
ing business last year, but fifty-six
new ones started up which accounts
for the increase.
These S7S concerns have capital in
vested to the extent of $9O13931
Their employees numbered SIT men,
$50 women and 9 children under IA
years of age. The wages paid to these
employees amounted to $3,862,160 for
the year. The value of the raw ma
terial used amounted to $11S01,56S
and the value of the output of the con-
Germs is fixed at $19,807,961. Except
for the number of concerns doing
business these figures can not be com
pared with those of a year ago for the
records of 1906 are missing from the
county clerks office.
They can be compared, however
with the records for 1901 and this
oil he T., l.
has been made in the manufacturing
and Industrial pursuits in Topeka dur
ing the past two years. In 1902 the
number of employees in these concerns
We're 1879 men and 1850 women. The
wages paid them totaled $3,224427
The Capital invested was $7,273129
The raw material used was worth So
46z, S24 and the output was valued at
$15.775,2S5.
By far the greatest number of en-
ployes in any one concern according
to the returns for this year are in the
Santa Fe shops. This number is 1859
and the wages paid them total $1,196-
035, while the output of the plant is
valued at $2,2S3.O55 While the
mum Der of the employees in the Santa
Fe shops is by far greater than in any
concern and the pay roll of the shops
is equally much greater, there is
one concern in the city that places the
value of its output at a larger figure
than that attached to the output of
Packing company. Its output is val |
ued at $2,3O9,300-
Employed by this company are one |
hundred and seventy-ffve men and five |
amount to s12S,000. The value of the |
raw material used at this plant is
81 ,972.136.
Next to the Santa Fe shops the Con-
tinenta1 Creamery company EMPLOYS |
the greatest number of people for any
one concern. This company has an
Invested capital of 100000 and en-
ploys six hundred men and seventy
to the amount of $4,000 The out
put of this plant is valued at S1SOO.-
900 and the value of the raw material |
used at s1.4S4,OO0
The nine Touring mills in the CITY
have an aggregate output that is val
ued at over $4,000 900.
Following is list of the manufac-
turing and Industrial concerns report
ed to the county clerk:
Bakeries IS; cut stone 1: contractors
and builders So; soda water manufac-
turer 3; planning mills 5; horse shoeing
l3; securing. dye'ng. etc. 9; foundry
repa!rers 10; upholsterers and furniture
repairs 8; roofing and tinwork 20; black
smitks 10; newspapers 10; auto supplies
and repairs 2; carriage repairs Q: mar
trees factories 2; foundries .: furniture |
|; ice and cold storage 4; painter and |
builder 20; plating and machine re-
pairs l; paper (whOleSale) l; ice cream
1; laundries 10; plumbers 9; paving ana
roofing 1; tailor shops 16; book binding
[; furnaces 1; shirt factory l: candy
factories Z; picture trainers s: feed
mills 2; packing rouse 1; millinery IL:
harness and saddlery I; manufacturing
chemists Z; broom factory 1; pillow
works /; hay presses 1: lime works /;
cigar factories Il; carriage Painting 1;
model and machire works 8; brick
plants 2; windmills L. creamery Sup
plies l. electric supplies l; bicycle re-
pairs 8; Touring mills 9: bridge and
IRON work 1; agricultural implements l;
washing flake l; piano and organ re-
pairs 1; gas burners 1; scale repairs l; |
automobile factory l; boiler works 1:
marble works 8; street lighting L; flor
lists ;; photographers 9; heat, light and /
power IL; paint works 1; violin factory
1; brazing compound 1; stone quarry
/; dressmaSers 6; optical supplies !;
mirror factory 1; trunk factory 1; desk
cabinet l; spice mills 1; rubber stamps
1; cement stone factories 5: skirt fac
tory 1; seed cleaners 1; tents and avn
lngS l; barrels and boxes 1; hair goods
l; coupon books 1; vulcanizers l; bask- /
ct factory ]; caSketS and furniture i:
corn feathers 1; creamerics 2; wooden
mills 2; preserving works 1; carpet and
rug factory l; ventilators l; water
works /; tTusseS 1; street railways /
Good Bass Fishing Now.