The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-18
MANUFACTURERS IN
OKLAHOMA STATE
Census Bureaus Summary Concerning
the State For 1909.


liminary statement of the general re-
suits of the census of manufactures
for the state of Oklahoma was issued
today by Census Director Durand. 1t
includes summary comparing the
figures for 1904 and 1909, by state
totals, prepared under the direction of
Mr.. William NJ. Steuart, chief statisti-
clan for manufactures, bureau of the
census.
Steam iaundries are separately pre-
sented, because the thirteenth census
was the first in which they were can
vassed and therefore there are no sta
tistics for prior censuses with which
these totals can be compared.
The figures are preliminary and sub
ject to such revision as may be neces-
sary after further examination of
the original reports.
The thirteenth census, like that of
1904, with reference to manufactures,
differs from the twelfth census in 1900,
in that the two later censuses excluded
the hand trades, the building trades,
and the neighborhood industries, and
took account only of establishments
conducted under the factory system
In the last census, also, as in that for
1904, statistics were not collected for
factories having product for the cen
sus year of value less than $500, ex-
cept that reports were taken for estab-
lishments idle during portion of the
year 1909, or which began operation
during that year, and whose products
for such 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 operated
by single individual, partnership, cor
poration, 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, 1909
wherever the system of bookkeeping
permitted figures for that period to be
secured, but where the fiscal year oi
an establishment differed from the cal
endar year a report was obtained fol
the operations of that establishment
for its fiscal year falling most largely
within the calendar year 1903.
The Per Cent of Increase.
The summary for the state shows {
large increase at the census of 1909 al
compared with that for 1904. In thu
order of their Importance, from a per
centage standpoint, the principal items
rank as follows:
Number of salaried officials ant
clerks, 10 per cent salaries ant
wages, 164 per cent; miscellaneous eS
penses, 157 per cent; value added b,
manufacture, 142 per cent; capital, IA
per C6uLs average enunlpCi VI WoSS
earners, 141 per cent; value of proc
ucts, 119 per cent; cost of material
used, 108 per cent; and number of es
Establishments, 106 per cent.
There were 2,310 manufacturing es
Establishments in 1909, and 1,123 in 1870
an increase Of 1,1S7, or 106 per cen
The capital invested, as reported i
1909, was $3S,S73,O0O, ag ain of $22
$4,000, or 141 per cent, over $16,124
600 in 1904. The average capital pc
establishment for 1909 was approx
mately $4,000 and for 1904, $14,0O
In this connection it should be state
that the inquiry contained in the Gel
sus schedule calls for the total amour
of capital, both owned and borrowe
and invested in the business, but doe
not include the value of rented pro-
erty, plant, or equipment which wa
employed in the conduct of manufa
turing enterprises. In the final bull
tins and reports the rental paid fc
such property will be shown separat
ly.
The cost of materials used in 19(
was sS4,153,OOO, as against $16,S94,O(