The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-06-29
|MANUFACTURINCIN.
DUSTR|ES OF SOUTH
Especial to the silver state.)

Especial to the Silver State.)
| WASHINGTON, June 29.-jManu-
featuring is not an unknown art in
the south, although that seems to be
the notion entertained in some sections
of the country. The census bureau
has just issued bulletins showing that
millions Of dollars are invested in
manufacturing plants in Charleston,
Greenville Columbia and Spartanburg.
Columbia leads in the capital invset-
ed-ss7 1885, 900, an increase of SO per
cent in five years. The cost Of materi-
ais used in 1909 was $685. 900, wages
and salaries amounted to 81, 1856 900,
miscellaneous expenses were $462 900,
and the value of products was $5,872,-
600. The average number of officials
was 233, and of employees, 1922.
Spartanburg had SO manufacturing
establishments in 1909, a gain Of but
one IN five years, but the capital in
creased from $2,S69, 900 to $4,471, 900
and the output from $2,128,0O0 to
$3,276,000. With an increase Of only
~ per cent in wages, the value added
by the process of manufacture increas-
ed lO4 per cent over that of 10 years
ago.
with a capital Of $6,573,OOO used ma
terials worth $4,229 900, paid salaries
and wages amounting to $1,4OS,OOO
and turned out products worth 60
951 900. There was little expansion in
| five years, the increase in capital be-
ing Ii per cent, and in value Of output
l6 per cent The average number Of
officials and wage earners in 1909 was
3,299.
Greenville has made considerable
gains in manufacturing since 1904. 1t
had, in 1909, Al establishments en-
ploying an average of 1926 persons,
who received $464,O 900. The capitali-
zation was $1,930,000, a decrease Of
per cent, but the output was 81
$4,000, gain of % per cent while
the value added by the process Of
manufacture was $914,OOO, or SO per
| cent more than in 1904.
Missouri Crop StatisticA
The census bureau has found that
Missouri produced in 1909 $147 ILL.,
"a worth Of cereals, $33 3,806,758 worth
of hay and forage and potatoes to the
value of $4,413,911. To show that the
census was carefully taken such items
as brown corn seed, 800; durum wheat,
$545; alfalfa seed, $l17; hops, Sal, are
included. If Missouri had to depend
on homegrown hops for its beer, it .
evident that Mr.. Adolphus Busch
would not now be spending millions on
| his winter home at Pasadena, Cal.
Still the statistics demonstrate that
agriculture is a noble science.
Senator Owens Stand.
! Senator Robert l.. Owen, Of Okla
homa, made speech recently in be-
half of the election of senators by
direct vote of the people, in which he
said:
"For one citizen of the United
States, | am tired of machine govern
ment of this country. / am weary Of
seeing corrupt special interests put
their hands secretly upon the govern
| ing function in towns, in cities, in
states and in the nation through this
system of machine politics, where
representative government has very
nearly met it's destruction
Mistakes Of Nature.
DR.. A. X. Fisher, chief Of the eco
nomic division of the biological sur
vey of the department Of agriculture,
holds that the house cat and the Eng
lish sparrow have no place in the
economy Of nature and ought to be
exterminated. The sparrow drives
away useful birds, and eats, the pro-
fessor says, will not catch rats or mice
except in rare instances.
Champ Clark's Chances.
Edwin M. Clendening, general Sec
retary of the Commercial club, of Kan
sas City, while in Washington last
week declared that from his observa-
tion of the sentiment among the
Democrats of Missouri, "no matter
what supporters Of former Gov. Folk
may think or do, the delegation from
the state, believe, will be for Speak
er Champ Clark for president in the
Democratic national convention.
Clark's friends are rallying to his
support because of the mixup in his
home state. Clendening said: Ere
gardless of politics, the people Of
Missouri have a just pride in Speaker
Clark, and though I am not Demo
crat, / am confident that the big ma
jority of the voters of that party favor
Clark for president rather than Folk -
Uncle Sam to Sell Milk.
The department of agriculture will
soon be operating 500-acre dairy
farm at Beltsville, near Washington
Crops are already in on 400 acres and
bids were opened June 21 for the con-
struction of concrete stables. The
milk will be sold in Washington, the
farm will be made supporting and
the land, which is rather poor, will be
brought to a high state Of fertility.
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