The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-12-29

of,il5 dozen Common Slaves con.
sisting of 1851 ,56S stock parts.
4,O5e dozen Reed consisting of 232-
32O stock parts.
4,056 dozen Bamboo consistinp of
l,574, ,440 stock parts.
1878 dozen Splint consisting OF
e,ooO,472 stock parts.
53,l17 dom Diamond consisting of
1852, ,504 stock parts.
2l,231 dozen all others consisting of
2,l23,100 stock parts.
140,241 dozen with a total of H.
i23,100 pieces In 1,6S2, 1892 baskets.
For comparison of the year 1910
and the year 1892 the first year bas-
kets were made In Plymouth and the
sales amounted to $4,000 with an
output of $4,000 dozen baskets. There
were employed in the manufacture
and selling department this year an
average of 175 people as against 60
people in 1892.
The sales were increased $65. 900
over 1908 and $4,000 over 1909.
here was 2,150,00O feet of logs used
n 1910 as against $4,000 feet in
092 with an average cost Of 500 per
L. IN 1910 and $40 per M. In 1892.
T,s relative Expenses were for:
go Material $42, ,509.07 1892 $424O
Selling 35,404.9O 1891 5000
Operating 65,O92.15 1882 5000
q teal of sl43,0O6.12 against $2O4O5,
difference of about $123,000. The
7avroll shows for factory an increase
cf $4,000.
The output represents shipments to
he amount Of 547 carloads or 27
trains Of 20 cars each reaching over
I niles long.
Hhis would require a warehouse
'ooo feet long by so feet wide and
. feet high and would take one man
wears to stack them up in one half
nd one dozen bundles.
# placed end to end-1, ,682. 1872
'a;kets would make one row 4,2O6.-
30 feet long or about 415 miles, and
t piled one upon another would make
tower 319 miles high.
The logs from which these made
ere manufactured amount to 2,150,-
10 feet or about $4,000 logs cut II
eaet long. which if placed end to end
-ould make row "a miles long, and
could require 600 ears to deliver
lem to the factory.
The logs consist of Oak, Elm, Beech
Faple. Sugar, Eastwood, Popular,
Cottonwood, Gum, Sycamore, Ash
and Hickory and other kinds-75 pc,
cent of which is shipped in at a dis
lance of rs to 80 miles.
There were ID ears of Elm Hoops
Fhipped from the Elm district of
Upper Michigan averaging 10000
9'eees to the car or 2,550,000 pieces
ont 5 feet long would make a strip
IF wood over 2,40O miles long.
In some of the. Baskets manufac-
tured there was used $500 pounds
of Rattan imported from Germany
at cost of 5 cents per h., which If
The strips were placed end to end
would reach $500 miles.
In one grade of baskets there was
'sed about 10000 pounds of galvaniz-
ID iron bands % gauge, oat in strips
IF about Az feet long by q inches
vide, that would make one strip $50
long.
There were nearly 101, 900, 900
rails and tacks used in these baskets
averaging one inch long, which il
placed end 10 end would make a row
about 1000 miles in length.
An expert Mailer can drive $4,000
nails in 10 hours and it would take
i'm over 5000 working days or near
w Is years to drive the nails used.
The manufactured stock parts used
and counted for Cost purposes
amounted TO 41,273,636 pieces-9o
per cent of which were from rotary
veneer and the balance from saw mat.
arial.
The annual Inventory was taken In
one dav-Nov. 30th, by four people
and consisted Of 67,260 fininshed
4.021,752 pieces of finished
locks parts-the weighing of $4,000
'ounds of nails, tacks, rivets, washers
arles and iron bands, and the loe
"asure of 508,941 feet of logs, to-
e'her with 27,500 items in Factory
rrrlies used in the manufactured
nroduct
Paskets were sold and delivered to
very state this year with the excep<
'on of Maine and Vermont-represent-
by ten territory statesmen and
ght General sales agents.