Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-11-09
INDUSTRIAL FACTS
SHOWN BY CENSUS
Progress Of South Dakota in
Manufacturing in the Last
Decade.

Washington. ID. C.-Special: Statis-
tuzs OF manufactures for the leading
Industries Of the state OF South Da-
kota for the calendar year 1909. COL
lected at the 18th decennial United
States census. drawn from the adj
vance bulletin now in press, are given
IN a statement today by Census Dlrec-
tor Durand: Preliminary statements
a tables embodying the grand total
Tor all the industries of the state and
OF the cities of Aberdeen. and Sioux
ea!is. separately. were issued in April
last. The bulletin was prepared under
the supervision of William M. Steuart,
chief statistician for manufactures, in
the bureau of the ensus
General Character Of the State.
among he states and territories of
continental United States, having an
e OF 1850 square miles, of which
1850 square miles represent land
surface. Its population in 1910 was
Oh: sSs. as compared with 4o1,b7o. in
seth among the 40 states and terri
tories as regards population in 1910
and 3Sth in 1900.
Lying in h great plains region. and.
With the exception Of the Black Hills
district consisting of rolling upland.
South Dakota is essentially an agri-
cultural state. It 1910 only 1871 per
cent of h entire population of the
state resided in incorporated cities and
towns having q population Of $500 or
over. as against 1912 per cent in 1900.
The density of population in 1910 was
10 persons per square mile, as COM
pared with So in 1900. Sioux Falls
and Aberdeen were the only cities with
q population of more than 10000 In
1910. The eastern part of the state
and the mining region of the south
west corner are we'll provided with
transportation facilities, nearly every
county east Of the Missouri river
having n or more railroads.
Growth Of Manufactures.
The agricultural n mining indus
tries OF South Dakota are of much
more importance than It's manu-
features.
The increase. however, in the num-
ber OF manufacturing establishments
from 1899 to 1909. m that in the
average OF wage earners engaged in
manufactures. has kept pace with the
general increase in population.
Ia 1909 the state had 1920 manu-
featuring establishments operating I'M
der the factory system. which gave
employment to an average of 1925
persons during The year and paid out
32.914.000 In salaries and wages. OF
the persons employed, 1902 were wage
earncrs These establishments turned
out products to h value OF SIT. S7O.-
900. to produce which materials cost
ing $~11.476,0OO were consumed. The
value added by manufacture was thus
$6.394,0oO. which figure best represents
the net wealth created by manufac-
turing operations during the year.
Leading Industries.
The most important Industries. ar
ranged In the order Of the value of
products are:
Flour Mill and Grist Mill Products
The statistics show that this industry
continues to lead In value of products.
reporting in 1909 more han one-third
of the total value of products for the
state. Compared with the returns.
however, for 1904. there has been a
decrease OF 4.8 per cent in the value of
products and of 24.9 per cent in value
added by manufacture.
Butter, Cheese and Condensed Milk
The establishments reported for this
industry are engaged primarily in the
manufacture of butter, no cheese nor
condensed milk being produced in 1909.
This industry increased much more
rapidly during the period from 1893 to
1904 than during the latter half of
the decade.
Printing and Publishing-Over one
third Of the total number Of manu-
featuring establishments and nearly
one-fourth Of the total number of
wage earners Of the state are engaged
in. this industry. The 392 establish
mcnts embraced 378 publishers OF
newspapers and periodicals. 13 job
establishment.
dread and Other Bakery Products
An Increase Of nearly 200 per cent
was shown in the value of the bakery
products reported for 1905. a. COM
pared with 1904.