The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-02
SUMMARY OF MANUFACTURE IN
MISSISSIPPI HAS BEEN
ISSUED.
CAPITAL INVESTED S72,393,OOO
Report Shows the State Has Made
Gains Along All Lines in
Business Way.

Washington, D. c., May "A pre-
liminary statement of the general re-
suits of the Thirteenth United States
Census of Manufactures of the state
Of Mississippi was issued today by
Census Director Durand. 1t includes
a summary comparing the figures of
1904 and 1909, by state totals, pre-
pared under the direction of Mr.. viii
liam M. Steuart, chief statistician for
manufactures, bureau of the census.
The figures are preliminary and sub
ject to such revision as may be nec-
essary after a further examination of
the original reports.
The thirteenth census, like that of
1904, differs from the twelfth census
in 1900, with reference to manufac-
lures, in that the two later censuses
excluded the hand and building trades
and the neighboring industries, and
took account only of establishments
conducted under the factory system.
In the last census, also, as in that of
1904, statistics were not collected for
factories having a product for the CEN
sus year OF value less than $500, ex-
cept that reports were taken Tor es-
adjustments idle during a portion of
the year 1909, or which began opera
ton in that year, and whose products,
therefore, were less than $500.
The word establishment" as used
in the Thirteenth Census is defined as
meaning one or more factories, mills,
or plants owned, controlled, or operat-
ed by person, partnership, corpora
tion, or other owner, located in the
same town or city, and for which one
set OF books Of account is kept.
The reports were taken for the cal
endar year ending December 81, 1909,
wherever the system of beekheepias
permitted figures for that period to be
secured, but in case the fiscal year OF
an establishment differed from the
calendar year a report of its opera
tions were obtained for the fiscal Pc
riod falling most largely within 1909.
The Rates of Increase.
The summary for the state shows in
creases in all of the items at the CEN
sus of 1909, as compared with that for
1904. These are exhibited, in percent
age order, as follows:
Number of establishments, II per
cent; miscellaneous expenses, 50 per
cent; capital, A per cent; cost of ma
terials used, 43 per cent; value of pro-
ducts, 40, per cent; value added by
manufacture, SO per cent; average
number of wage-earners employed DUR
ing the year, 80 per cent; salaries and
wages, 29 per cent; and number of
salaried officials and clerks, 27 per
cent. -
There were 2,59S manufacturing es-
adjustments in 1909 and 1920 in 1904,
an increase of 1,07S, or Il VAr cent.
The capital invested, as eporta in
1909, was $72,39S,O0O, a gain of s22.-
$4,000, or A per cent, over $50. .256. 900
in 1904. The average capital per es-
tablishment was approximately $2S, ,O0o
in 1909 and $4,000 in 1904. In this
connection it should be stated that in
the census schedule the inquiry con-
cerning capital invested calls for the
total amount, both owned and borrow
ed and invested in the business, but
does not include the value of rented
prope4Sy, plant or equipment which
was employed in the conduct of manu-
featuring enterprises. In the final
bulletins and reports the rental paid
for such property will be shown sepa-
rately.
The cost of materials used was $780,
$4,000 in 1909, as against $25,S01, 900
in 1904, an increase of s11,125,000, or
4S per cent. The average cost of ma
terials per establishment was approxi-
mately $4,000 in 1909 and $4,000 in
1904. In addition to the component
materials which enter into the pro-
ducts of the establishment for the GEN.
sus year there are included fuel, rent
Of power and heat. and min supplies
The cost Of materials, however, does
NOT include eterials and IN. !.