The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-21
NORTH CAROLINA
IN MANUFACTURE
Fiqures Given Out By The
Census Bureau
PROGRESS REMARKABLE

1,c Value Of Manufactured Products
IN 1909. S2tG,614,OO0, an Increase
Of 1.2oU Per Cent Since 1Sa0-1he
six Leading Industries Are Cotton
Goods, Tobacco, Lumber and Tim
her Products, Flour Mill and Grist
Mill Products: Gotten Oil Products
and Furniture.
Washington, March ia preliIni-
nary statement of the general results
Of the census of manufactures for the
state of North Carolina was issued yes
terfay by Census Director Durand. 1t
consists Of a summary comparing the
figures for 1904 and 1909, by State
totals, prepared under the direction Of
William NJ. Stuart. chief statistician
for manufactures, bureau OF the cen
Sua,
Steam laundries are given separate
presentation because the thirteenth
census was the first in which they
were ~canvassed, and therefore there
are no statistics for prior
with which these totals can he COM
pared.
Il figures are preliminary and
subject to such change and cor
rection as may be found necessary
from a further examination Of the
original reports.
The thirteenth census, like that Of
1904, with reference to manufactures.
differs from the twelfth census, ia
1909, in that the two later censUsc
excluded the hand trades, the build
ing trades, and the neighborhood in
dustries, a!>> took account only Of es-
adjustments conducted under the fac
rory system. In the last census. also,
as in tina for 1904, statistics We're not
collected for factories aving a pro-
duct for the census year of q value
less than $500, except that reports
were taken tCE establishments Idle
during that year, and whose produces
for sucI! reason were less than $500.
The word establishment" as used
In the thirteenth census, may mean
more than one mill or plant, provided
they are owned or controlled and OPP
Grated by a single individual, partner
ship, corporation or other owner or
operator, and are located in the same
town or city.
The reports were taken for the cal
endar year ending December 81, 1908
wherever the system of bookkeeping
permitted figures for that period to be
secured, but where the fiscal year OF
an establishment differed from the call
cnddr Year q report was obtained Tor
the operations of that establishment
sor its fiscal year falling most largely
Within the calendar. year 1903.
Leading Industries.
North Carolina is one OF the South
cFn states which has made remark
able progress in manufactures since
The Civil War. At the census taken in
1850 the total value of manufactures
was s16,G79.oO0. while at the census
products was s~21S.614,000. an increase
81 s199.935,000, or almost 1900 per
cent in the fifty years.
In 1909 the six leading industries,
according to value Of products, are as
foloWs: Cotton goods, $72,680, 0e0; to-
bacto manufactures, $35,9S7,O 900; lum-
Der and timber products, $33,525,00O;
-four mill and gr;st mill products. So
.ol. 900; oil, cotton seed. and cake,
ss'Ae3.uoo: and furniture, S7.835.00
The total for these six industries
amounts to s1e7,041,0e0. and repre-
SCENTS Il per cen Of the total value OF
manufacturers for the State.
IN 1904 the products for these in
uoStrles were:$ 47.254.o0c. S~2S,oSS,-
900, sla.4s3,ooo, s~6,Ss4,0o0 $3,749.-
ooo, and $3.50, 900, respectively, a to-
TAI OF S1l1.62e.o 600, or IS per cen OF
nc total value of products, showing
mat the relative proportion held b.
'neSc six Industries was practically the
3lno at the two
ihe manufacture OF cotton goods is
~ Tar he most important industry in
tle state, and its phenomenal growth
pefhaps may be better understood by
.ae Following illustrative figures: In
"eoV there Were 80 cotton mills hav-
ing 4l.SS4 spindles and products val
"eu at S~l,OAs,O00, an average of 1914
splhdles and s2s,S2l per mill. In
ts'3 therc were PSI cotton mills with
@.A2%,4ah spin1}ea. and products valued