Evening journal., 1910-08-15
General Results of 1909
Census Announced by
fhe Census Bureau

WASHINGTON, Aug. t5.-The gen
eral results of the United States Cen
sus of Manufacturers in the state
of Delaware for the year 1903 We're
officially announced today by Acting
Director Willoughby They are con-
tanned in three tables prepared un-
der the supervision of William M.
Stuart, chief statistican for manufac-
turers in the Census Bureau. Two
are comparative in character and
present the differences between 1904
and 1909 for the state and city Of VIII
mington separately. The third con-
Germs steam laundries, which are not
incorporated in either of the other
tables, for the reason that this CEN
sus was the first to include this in
dustry. Notice is given that the to-
tails are only preliminary and are
subject to necessary corrections grow
ing out of a further examination of
the schedules containing the statis-
tics.
The comparative summary for the
State of Delaware shows nothing but
increases in each of the various items
The general advance was unbroken
by any decrease.
The Range of Increases.
The percentages of increase from
1904 to 1903 range from 1872 to 1876.
The largest increase fas in the num-
ber of salaried officials and clerks,
amounting to 1876 per cent; the next
was in the value added to products
by manufacture, or products less
cost of materials, amounting to 34.7
per cent; in salaries and wages
29 per cent; in the value of products,
2l.5Yper cent; in miscellaneous ex-
penses, 26.5 per cent; in cost of ma
terials used, 24.3 per cent; and in
capital invested, 1871 per cent.
In 1909 the number of establish
ments operating throughout the state
was 73S, exclusive of steam laundries
and 16 small sawmills and grist-
mills omitted for purposes of COM
parison. In 1904 there were 631 es-
adjustments of the kind forming the
73S in 1909. The gain in number
between 1904 and 1909 was 107, or II
! per cent
The cost of materials used in 1908
was s30.941 .20S. as compared with
! $24,SS3, ,8O6 in 1904; the increase
amounting to $6,O57 ,402, or 24.3 pey
/ cent. The returns under this head
related only to the cost of materials,
mill supplies, and fuel used during
the year. which may be an entirely
different matter.
( The value Of products in 1909 was
/ S52,S71 ,O41, as compared with SAL
! 160,276 in 1904, an increase amount
/ ing to S11,710,765, or 2S.5 per cent
From the census standpoint the pro-
duct in the establishment is the
finished product in the condition In
which it is prepared for sale. The
census inquiry called also for the
value of the products made during
the year and not for the value o.
the sales. The value OF products as
certained was, therefore, the sellini
value or price at the factory o
works, which includes the profit Q
the manufacturer, and il was not tn
cost of manufacturing them.
Value Added by Manufacture.
The value added by manufacture il
1909. obtained by deducting the cos
of materials from the value of pro
ducts, was s21 .929,SSS, as against S16,
276,476 in 1904, the increase beini
S5 sos ,363, or 34.7 per cent.
The average value of products pc
establishment in 1909 was apprixl
mately $4,000, as against $4,000 II
1904.
The capital invested i'm 1909 amount
ed to $50, O,947 .526, a gain of S1O,021 ,S9'
or 1917 per cent, over 1904, when th'
amount <was s50,9256 $50, It SHOULD
be noted that the purpose OF the in
quiry as TO capital invested was TO de
termine the value Of property EN-
ployed by an establishment for TIL
purpose of its productive operation
but not including rented property
Therefore both capital owned by tn
operator and borrowed by him wa
included I'm the report; i'm other word
no deduction was made from the valu
of the assets by reason of liabilitis
for money due others. The averag
capital invested in 1909 by each of tn
73S establishments was, approximate
sS3 ,0o0, as compared with about SS1,
600 invsted by each of the 631 concern
in 1904
The salaries and wages in 1899 rep
resented Sleeps, ,115; in 1904. S9,7S7,
454-an increase of S2,S49,661. or 2
per cent.
Tn 1909 the number of salaried Off
cials and clerks was 2,025, or 81
more than the 1,451 in 1904, the pc
cent. of increase being 1876. The aver
age number Of salaried officials an