The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-09-13
SOME NEVADA STATISTICS
Interesting Figures About Me-
vada Indicating a Rapid
Growth In Resources.

Inc 1olloWlng interesting STATISTICS
as gathered from the 18th census
are from the advance sheets prepared
by the Department of Commerce and
Labor.
Nevada has an area of l09, TAO square
miles. The population ia 1910 was
81, ,875, as against 1886 in 1900 and
~, 33335 in 1890 II ranked forty-ninth
amonth the states and territories as re-
CARDS population in 1910 and fiftieth in
1900. In its early days as territory
thousands of people were attracted to
Nevada by the fabulous richness of
the Comstock lode. This lode, perhaps
the most remarkable deposit of the
precious metals discovered in histori-
cal times, has produced hundreds of
millions of dollars in gold and silver,
and is still producing. The subsequent
discovery Of rich gold and silver mines
at Tonopah and Goldfeld has served to
place Nevada among the the great
mining states of the country.
The state has but one city having a
population over 0,000. Reno with a
population of l0,S67.
Though Nevada is not important as
as manufacturing community, the
manufactures of the state have shown
at the last two censuses a marked ins
crease in value
In 1903 the state had had 1T manu-.
featuring establishments operating
under the factory system, which gave
employent to an average of 1850 per-
sons during the year and paid 81, $780,
900 in salaries and wages. OF the
persons employed, 2,257 were wage
earners. These establishments turned
out products to the value of 81, s87, 900,
to produce which materials costing
So, 366, 900 were consumed. The value
added by manufacture was thus SO. 521, :
600, which figure best represents the
net wealth created by manufacturing
operations during the year.
The manufacturing industries of
Nevada as a whole, showed consider
able development during the fve-
year period of 1s99-l904, and a very
much greater development during the
most recent period of 1909-l904. Dur
the latter period the number of estab-
lshments increased 539 per cent and
the average number of wage earners
1914 per cent, while the value of pro-
ducts increased 2s7.9 per cent and the
value added by manufacture 1888 per
cent. The bulletin states that it would
be improper to infer that manufact-
ures increased in volume during the
period l904-1909 to the extent indicated
by the figures regarding values, since
the increase shown is certainly due,
in part, to the increase that has taken
place in the price of commodities.
1t is matter of interest to note
that the percentages of increase
shown for wages, value of products,
dFCidBS uuihbSl Vi wage CdIucIS,
and other items are much larger than
for a number of establishments
reported. The large percentage of
increase in the cost of materials was
due to the amount reported by an
establishment engaged in the smelt-
ing and refining of copper, which has
commenced operations since 1904.
The large percentages of increase
shown for other items are also to a
considerable extent due to the amounts
reported by this establishment.
For oil industries combined there
has been decrease during the 10 years
in the employment of children under
16 years of age. There has not been
much change in the proportion of male
and female earners. In 1909 males 16
years of age and over formed 9S.4 per
cent of all wage earners, as compared
with 98.5 per cent in 1904 and 95.4 per
cent in 1899.