Evening journal., 1911-05-27
INDUSTRIES OF LITTLE DELAWARE

WASHINGTON. D. c., May 27.-
Statistics of manufactures for the
leading industries Of the State of
Delaware for the calendar year 1909,
collected at the Thirteenth Decennial
United States Census, are given in a
statement issued today by Acting Gen.
sus Director Falkner This antici-
pates by a considerable time the is
suance of the first official bulletin for
the State and is in pursuance of the
Census Bureaus plan to give the
public the use of the Thirteenth Cen
sus data as soon as the official figures
become available. Preliminary state
ments and tables embodying the
grand totals for all the industries of
the State and Of the city Of Whining
ton, separately, have been given out
previously. The present announce
ment completes the advance press
series on the subjct The figures for
the State and Wilmington are not
shown separately here as the manu-
featuring in the State is so largely
centralized in the city OF Wilmington
Character of the Bulletin.
The forthcoming bulletin was pre-
pared under the supervision of Will
liam M. Steuart, chief statistician for
manufactures, and 1t will be reprinted
without change as a part of the State
compendium Of the census for Della
ware and in the final reports OF the
Thirteenth Census.
The text summarizes the general
results of the enumeration, presenting
a series of special tables in which
the main facts printed in the general
tables are given In convenient form
| for the State as a whole, and for the
! leading industries. 1t also presents
tables in which the industries of the
| State as a whole and a few leading
industries are classed by character of
ownership, size Of establishments,
number Of wage earners, and prevail
ing hours of labor.
At the end of the bulletin are three
general tables: Table I gives the
number of establishments, persons
engaged in industry, the primary
power, capital, salaries and wages
cost of materials, the value of pro-
ducts, and the value added by manu-
facture, for all industries at the
enumerations Of 1899, 1904 and 1909
and similar figures for the separate In
dustries. Table II gives greater de-
tail for 1909 for the State and for the
separate industries. Table III gives
these items for all industries and foI
the separate industries in the city oil
Wilmington for 1899, 1904 and 1909
Selected Industries.
The relative importance and growth
of some Of the leading industries are
shown in the subjoined table Oi
these, the ten most important meas.
ured by the value Of their products ir
1909 ranked as follows: Leather
tanned, curried and finished, S12,079,,
600; foundry and machine shop pro
ducts, S4,7S1 900; cars-steam rail
road, not including operations of rail
road companies, $3,62S,000; cars anC
general shop construction and repairs
by steam railroad companies, $3,251,
900; paper and wood pulp, $2,292, 900
canning and preserving. S2,106, ,001
shipbuilding, S1,990,000; fiour-mil
and grist-mill products, s1,752, 900
iron and steel, steel works and roll
ing mills, s1,715,000, and lumber an
timber products, $1,312.000.
With respect to percentage Of IN
crease in the value of products, 1901
J 1909, the car and general shop cor
j struction industry led all others wit
a rate Of 1887 per cent, which we
more than twice it's gain betwee
: 1S99-1s04. Lumber and timber prt
ducts ranked second with 53.1 ps
cent, almost four times as great a