The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-15
BUREAU OF THE
!. CENSUS ON PRINTING
POSSESSES IMPORTANCE WHICH
CANNOT BE ESTIMATED by
CAPITAL INVESTED.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-The
United States bureau of the census
announces the publication of bulle-
tin 10, presenting the detailed sta
tistics of the printing and publishing
industry at the census of manufac-
lures of 1905. This bulletin was
prepared by William S. Rossiter
chief clerk of the census.
The printing industry possesses an
Importance which can not be meas
ured by capital invested or by the
volume and value of product. Analy-
sis of the printers calling has be-
come to a noteworthy degree an an
alysis of the general prosperity of
the nation. Therefore interest in
the progress and prosperity of print
ing is not confined to those who are
connected with the industry, as is
frequently the case with other call
ings, but is shared by the entire
community.
In the census report the industry
as whole is considered first.
The total number of establish
ments in this industry in 1906 was
26,422, number larger than was
reported for any other industry. The
increase reported from 1900 to 1905
forms a striking exception to the pre-
vailing tendency toward consolida-
tion, for 1t was proportionately great
er than from 1890 to 1900. Hence
the product of this industry contin-
ues to be contributed by a great
number of small establishments, ac-
complishing noteworthy results with
small capital, operated by men of
Independent thought and action, and
contributing materially to the intel
lectual and financial growth of the
country.
,he capital required in 1905 to
conduct the printing and publishing
business was 1886, 5,00S,604. 1t was
approximately double that required
in 1890, and it was doubtless due to
a considerable degree to mechanical
changes which have taken place in
this industry during the past 10 or
Is years.
The total value of products report
ed in 1905 was $496,061, 1857. Dur
ing the brief period from 1900 to
1905 the increase in value of prod
ucts was nearly double that from
1890 to 1900, or, in absolute figures,
5 149, ,006,927 compared with $71,-
601,915. Had the per capita value
of products been the same in 1905
as in 1850, the entire value of prod
ucts of the industry would have been
but $52,OO7,58S; on the other hand,
had the per capita production in
1850 been the same as it was i'm
1905, the total value of products of
The industry at the earlier census
would have amounted to $141,4 ,470,-
444, or almost ten times as much as
the actual amount recorded.
Among the 10 industries having
value of products in 1905 exceeding
1920, 100000, printing and publish
ing ranked seventh, having advanced
10 that position from tenth in 1880.
The 10 leading Industries were as
follows: Slaughtering and meat
packing, iron and steel boundaries
and machine shops, -four and grist
mills, clothing, lumber and timber,
and publishing, cotton man
lfactureS, wOolen manufactures, and
boots and shoes. These great indus
.ries are characterized, for the most
part, by comparatively small num-
Der of establishments and concentra-
ion in particular localities. Print |
ng and publishing reports one es-
.ablishment to every 3,O76 inhabi- |
ants, while at the opposite extreme
s iron and steel, which contributes
)ut one establishment to every 1884,
300 inhabitants.
OF the total number of establish
nents in the entire industry, about |
)ne-third were exclusively book and |
Job establishments, one-siXth eXclu-
'ively newspaper and periodical es-
Adjustments, and over one-half were |
stablishments-that Is,
both book and job print
ng and newspapers and periodicals.. |
IN value of products the exclusive |
were practically on
wen terms, the amount reported for
book and job printing being $780,
759, 9,503, and for newspapers and Pc
S4,736,S0O; but in the
establishments the
Jalue of newspaper and periodical
PRODUCTS greatly outweighed the val
lie of book and job printing. The
entire value of products distributed
the two general classes was
for book and job print
ng and $256,816,282 for newspapers
md periodicals. The increase for
newspapers and periodicals from
1900 to 1905 was somewhat greater
han that shown for book and job
printing. This was principally due
o the stationary condition of the
book and job printing interests in
he New England states.
Two-thirds of the total value of
PRODUCTS of the industry was contri-
)uted by six states-New York,
Illinois, Massachu-
,etts, Ohio and Missouri. These |
states are also the principal pro-
lucers in each of the two branches, |
in unequal proportions.
Five of the six cities having a pop
ilation of more than 100000 inhabi-
ants in 1900 contributed almost |
,ne-half of the total value of the
PRODUCTS of the industry, or, cOnsid-
cred by the two main branches of the
industry, $50 per cent of the book
md job printing products and 42.9
Der cent of the newspaper and peri
)dical products. New York contri-
)uted more than double the value of
products of the next largest pro-
lucer (Chicago) and almost one
fourth of the entire product of the